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 to better yourself, here is a set of youtube videos (almost 6 hours) from a conference on \”Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age\” hosted at […]
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Pharrell reveals more details on his side project \’Kidult\’ talking about how there is a void of real information for the youth demographic. This 120 second interview is facilitated by friendswelove [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf5-fRUKlRk&hl=en_US&fs=1&] \”When I was in school, I hated being talked down to, I felt like I should be talked up to\” an expression true
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Today we have an early example \’edutainment\’ specifically, a lighthearted but in-depth look at the atom from the 1950\’s in cartoon form. Although the educational content may be dated, the animations are a great deal of fun to watch, enjoy! Perhaps most interesting is that societies view on nuclear energy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPb0hFtd27A&hl=en_US&fs=1&] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfO14BtNxE&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
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 bring teachers upto speed on common web based applications that students are already using and that teachers should be integrating into their day-to-day educational outreach.
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When considering what works in education, one must draw conclusions from basic or big bigger ideas in knowledge networks to figure out the best way to form that relationship of osmosis between the teacher and the student. This audio/visual presentation by Darren Kuropatwa gives one a good base when struggling with the age old question
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Over here at Pop Lock and Learn we are in the early stages of writing another subject to add to our collection of learning resources. In doing our preliminary research for the \’Hip Hop World Geography\’ edition, we came across a wonderful cartoon teaching kids the names of the states and their capitals. We wanted to share with you,
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If you are having trouble prying your child away from the computer to do their homework then we have just the site for you. Under their \’Education\’ section Miniclip has put together a great set of fantastic online edutainment games to keep your childs brains nourished while they are having fun.
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