Sunday, May 24, 2015

Re: Promoting Optimal Development: Screening for Behavioral and Emotional Problems


How Schools Can Help Nurture Students' Mental Health




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Sunday, January 25, 2015

How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | MindShift

This is where we need to go. 


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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Teachers Will Embrace Students’ Smartphone Addiction In 2015

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TechCrunch - Editor's note: Joe Mathewson cofounded learning platform Firefly when he was 14.

These are heady days for education technology. In fact, with big investments in outfits like Everspring and Udemy, I'd say 2014 was the biggest year yet in edtech. However, if you thought that was impressive, you haven't seen anything yet. What does 2015 hold for the year in this fast-moving sector?

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Friday, January 2, 2015

FW: The Teaching Profession in 2014 (in Charts)

 

 

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Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 10:46 PM
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FW: 8 Myths That Undermine Educational Effectiveness | Edutopia

 

 

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Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 7:20 PM
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Read again. Toy. Class size. 



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FW: A great Freakonomics podcast on teacher quality

 

 

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 TOY

How to improve teacher training . 

 

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A great Freakonomics podcast on teacher quality

edreform.blogspot.com - A great Freakonomics podcast on teacher quality, featuring interviews with Joel Klein, David Levin, author Dana Goldstein, and Harvard economist John Friedman:LEVIN: And as a society, you know, we have to start thinking, yes we have to start paying teachers more and recognizing that there will be professions that pay more. What else can we do to make teaching as respected a profession as possible? I mean, and you know, one of my favorite ideas is for teachers who continue to teach past their fifth year that we consider some type of tax break and tax incentive for them including the possibility that they don't pay income tax, recognizing that we won't always be able to pay teachers more. But there ways that we can say to teachers, 'Hey, you are a national treasure, you are essential to the future of the country.' And I think if we got serious about that it could really make a huge difference. Even little things — I know it sounds little but we have armed forces you know, board airplanes first, why not have armed forces and teachers board airplanes first? You know, I just think there are lots of ways we could think about valuing the teaching profession more.

 

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FW: Do You have the Personality To Be an Inquiry-Based Teacher? | MindShift

 

 

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TOY

 

Holy Cow! This is what I've been doing. How can so many people be doing the same things as I am. I'm loving this! Fabulous terminology here, too. 

 

Inquiry-based teaching



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FW: How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning | MindShift

 

 

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An excellent read, and a lot like what my classroom has been like this year and last year but with English 9. My kids have identified problems local and afar, written and acted to try to solve them, developed skills on their own and with each other simply to attempt to solve the problem and communicate, not because I asked them to. 



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An excellent read, and a lot like what my classroom has been like this year and last year but with English 9. My kids have identified problems local and afar, written and acted to try to solve them, developed skills on their own and with each other simply to attempt to solve the problem and communicate, not because I asked them to. 



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FW: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239687How This

 

 

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TOY

29 root words used at least once

Redo and also check for word count and repeat usage and repeat usage as a percent. 

 

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How This Stronger-Than-Steel Material Could Change the World

by Jason Ankeny

Graphene is just one atom thick, but it's poised to cast a wide shadow over the future of business. Some 200 times stronger than steel yet lighter than paper and more flexible than a contortionist, graphene is hailed as a miracle material with the potential to revolutionize products and processes across industries from consumer electronics to biomedicine. 

First isolated in 2004 by physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, who won a Nobel Prize for their efforts, graphene is essentially a crystalline carbon allotrope with two-dimensional properties. Its atoms are packed in a hexagonal pattern that resembles chicken wire, and it's so thin, it's virtually transparent. The unique structure translates to thermal, electrical and magnetic properties no other material can match, and the commercial applications are almost limitless. For example, graphene's flexibility could lead to breakthroughs in wearable devices, and its feather-light weight could yield more streamlined, fuel-efficient aircraft. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has even donated $100,000 to the University of Manchester to help fund development of graphene-based condoms.

"Graphene has so much potential for use in many different businesses and many different areas," says Elena Polyakova, CEO of Long Island, N.Y.-based Graphene Laboratories, whose Graphene Supermarket supplies nanocarbon and graphene products to more than 7,000 enterprise and academic customers. "It can replace many materials that are currently on the market."

Graphene R&D far eclipses commercial activity, at least for now. Technology consultancy Cambridge IP states that developers and manufacturers have filed 13,000 graphene-related patents in the past five years alone, and in late 2013 the European Commission launched a billion-euro, 10-year graphene research initiative that brings together academic institutions and industrial groups from 17 nations. 

An Allied Market Research forecast says the graphene market will reach $149.1 million worldwide by the end of the decade, experiencing a compound annual growth rate of 44 percent between 2014 and 2020, thanks largely to surging interest from the electronics and automotive sectors. Case in point: In April, Samsung Electronics, working with South Korea's Sungkyunkwan University, announced a graphene synthesis method that promises to speed the material's commercialization, touting its potential for use in flexible displays and other cutting-edge products. IBM has also unveiled a graphene-based integrated electronic circuit designed to boost wireless data transmission speeds.

But just because graphene is a miracle doesn't mean it's perfect. For starters, it lacks the "band gap" present in other semiconductor materials, meaning its conductivity can't be switched on and off. Possible solutions include building in artificial breaks to open and close circuits or altering graphene's core makeup with chemical additives. The problem is further compounded by high manufacturing costs and quality-control issues that limit the volume of defect-free graphene that's available to researchers.

Startups like Ottawa, Ontario-based Grafoid, a graphene-focused business development firm, are tackling the production challenge head-on. Grafoid has invested in the patent-pending MesoGraf process, which generates pristine graphene from raw graphite ore, a cost-effective, single-step production method that eliminates harsh chemicals that could hamper the material's fundamental properties. 

Such processes have the advantage of being better for the planet. In fact, graphene's low environmental impact may turn out to be its true legacy. Researchers at Rice University have proved that adding graphene oxide to water-based drilling fluids can improve oil extraction by minimizing potential leakage. Graphene may even replace some metals and other natural resources mined for manufacturing, says Gordon Chiu, founder, president and CTO of Grafoid and co-inventor of MesoGraf. 

"Imagine taking something that was 100 percent oil-dependent and making it only 50 percent oil-dependent by mixing in graphene. Not only is the product lighter and stronger, but it's also safer for the environment," Chiu says. "I've always believed in new materials that can change the way we do things. Graphene has the ability to fundamentally impact how we operate as a species while still being technologically advanced."



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Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 12:52 PM
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Take this nugget of future thinking to build into the TOY essays. The tru reasons I'm doing what I'm doing. Look at all of it through the lens of future needs of our students. 

 

The Greek and Latin roots study vocabulary is a perfect example. Not only does language historically use these roots, (so we are widening our kids' possibilities with medical and engineering and legal occupations by teaching it in the 9th grade), but also language of the future will return to them, and we are at the beginning of a new language boom like we've never seen. This article shows the power of the vocabulary roots now, and hints at the future power we'll be giving our students if we teach them as much as we can while we have them. 

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FW: Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities | Edutopia

 

 

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Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 8:35 PM
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Toy



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FW: New teaching model a 'game changer'

 

 

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FW: Outside the Skinner Box. TOY education issue

 

 

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Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 6:21 PM
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Parts of this have to do with my new teaching plan . This is how we have to do it . Also . I need to learn to code . 

 

 "You cannot be expected to teach 21st-century learners if you have not learned in this century. Professional development strategies need to focus on creating the sorts of rich constructive learning experiences schools desire for students, not on using computers to perform clerical tasks. We must refrain from purchasing "teacher-proof" curricula or technology and then acting surprised when teachers fail to embrace it. PD needs to stop rewarding helplessness and embrace the competence of educators."

 

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