The Role of Television in a Child\’s Development
The University of Michigan Health System\’ Child Development & Behavior section has done a fantastic overview for parents to understand what role television should potentially play in child development. This dedicated…
Students, Take Back the Power from your Teachers in the Classroom!
The title of this post may seem provocative and quite scary to most teachers and authoritative figures in the educational system. In fact it is meant to represent the contrary. Handing over power and…
2 MM
It is said that a child has 2 million minutes from the beginning to the end of highschool…Two Million Minutes to build their intellectual foundation…Two Million Minutes to prepare for…
Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age
We took some time off for summer break but we are back. To all you teachers and education policy professionals, if these recessionary times have you unable to attend conferences…
Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
In the ebook Michael Zimmer outlines a variety of leading web-based tools that can be used in almost any classroom regardless of content area. This is a simple guide to…
Are Children Educated Away From a Creative Mindset?
Considered one of the worlds leading thinkers, creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to…
Weekend Funnies
Abbott and Costello are masters of turning a numeric riddle into knee slapping humour, everyone knows the old \”who\’s on first\” routine. We hope you are having a productive weekend, make…
Ten Signs Your Child is in Need of an Alternative Education
1. Does your child say he or she hates school? If so, something is probably wrong with the school because children are natural learners. When they\’re young you can hardly…
Metaphors in Music to Teach Language Arts
Today we came accross a fantastic lesson plan resource that teaches students to: -examples of metaphor in the lyrics of a song. -interpret the meaning of the metaphors they find….
Are you past/present hedonistic or future oriented?
Another wonderful \’RSA Animate\’ of an interesting talk given by Professor Philip Zimbardo conveying the secret powers of time how that expresses who we are as a person, how we…
A second opinion on learning disorders
[ted id=893] TED brings us another intriguing speaker. Dr Aditi Shankardass is pioneering the use of technology to give children with developmental disorders their most accurate diagnosis. Dr Shankardass specializes…
Brain Re-organizes to Make Room for Math
A very interesting link showed up in Pop Lock and Learn\’s inbox today leading to an article discussing research that has been conducted on how between childhood and adulthood neural…