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What Stealing Cookies Teaches Us About Young Children and Empathy 04/07/2015

What Stealing Cookies Teaches Us About Young Children and Empathy!

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What Stealing Cookies Teaches Us About Young Children and Empathy Children as young as 3 years old will step in to right the wrong if they see someone being mistreated, a study finds. But they aren't as keen as...

Timeline photos 04/07/2015

What do you think about this?

To Flip or Not To Flip? 03/07/2015

To Flip or Not To Flip?
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To Flip or Not To Flip? My goal as a teacher is to help students learn better and become independent learners. Flipped classrooms are gaining popularity and many educators...

Timeline photos 03/07/2015

Happy friday everybody!

Simple Music Integration for Primary Classrooms 02/07/2015

Simple Music Integration for Primary Classrooms
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Simple Music Integration for Primary Classrooms Here are just a few of the many opportunities that music offers for numeracy, literacy, creativity, and kinesthetic learning in elementary classrooms.

Timeline photos 29/06/2015

One of the best !

'Normal Humans' Can Speak Up And Bring Change, Malala 28/06/2015

What a great young woman! http://ow.ly/OyyjI

'Normal Humans' Can Speak Up And Bring Change, Malala Jon Stewart had almost no jokes for his audience Thursday night in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...

Timeline photos 27/06/2015

Liberty… !

Timeline photos 27/06/2015

Any thoughts about that ?

Aid Education with Historic Newspapers 27/06/2015

With newspapers!

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Aid Education with Historic Newspapers June 19, 2015Britain is commemorating the centenary of the start of World War One. That's 100 years since the start of the First World War.

Essentials for Lifelong Learning: Danny Stillion at TEDxFurmanU 26/06/2015

Danny Stillion describes a lifestyle of lifelong learning as a factor of curiosity, empathy, and passion. Stillion believes that future design solutions must simultaneously reinforce and be sustained by these three elements.
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Essentials for Lifelong Learning: Danny Stillion at TEDxFurmanU Danny Stillion describes a lifestyle of lifelong learning as a factor of curiosity, empathy, and passion. Stillion believes that future design...

Timeline photos 25/06/2015

Wise words for this hot day of !

Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner 25/06/2015

Great video to warch! http://ow.ly/OyxXi

Ben Dunlap: The life-long learner http://www.ted.com Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about...

Timeline photos 24/06/2015

Patient with our little ones!

When Students Plan a Conference, Amazing Things Happen 24/06/2015

Good job everybody!
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When Students Plan a Conference, Amazing Things Happen The first online student technology conference was held this past January 2015 led by Eric Walters and his students. They are furiously planning...

Timeline photos 23/06/2015

Be a Rocks!

Turn Traditional Units of Study into Deeper Learning Experiences 23/06/2015

How often does the learning stop with memorization, recall, or perhaps a short-term activity? How many students get a chance to think critically and apply their understanding? Years from now, what will stick with them from their state studies?
Read this!
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Turn Traditional Units of Study into Deeper Learning Experiences A third grade class asked why their state, Rhode Island, had no official state insect when 46 other states did. Read what happened next.

Timeline photos 22/06/2015

We need to educate our children at home too, every moment is a chance to learn.

Mobile uploads 03/06/2015

What do you think is the purpose of ? 🍎

Timeline photos 30/05/2015

Timeline photos 30/05/2015

Steps for Cultivating a Love of Reading in Young Children 17/04/2015

Reading is something that are kids are losing don't let that happen! http://ow.ly/L6tit

Steps for Cultivating a Love of Reading in Young Children Daniel Willingham's new book is full of advice for parents and teachers hoping to nurture a love of reading in kids.

Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear 16/04/2015

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Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear Dave Isay opened the first StoryCorps booth in New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 2003 with the intention of creating a quiet place where a...

Water Activity for Kids - 10 Little Rubber Ducks 16/04/2015

Splash, splash! http://ow.ly/L6ttj

Water Activity for Kids - 10 Little Rubber Ducks After reading "10 Little Rubber Ducks", play with rubber ducks in water.

Rainbow fruit cup snack || Teach Preschool 14/04/2015

Spring time!! http://ow.ly/L6top

Rainbow fruit cup snack || Teach Preschool Inspired by my assistant, who created a rainbow fruit jar for her lunch, I thought "Hey, our students would like that too!" So we made a kid version!

Six Powerful Motivations Driving Social Learning By Teens 13/04/2015

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Six Powerful Motivations Driving Social Learning By Teens Despite cautionary tales of teens and social networks, students have a lot to gain from incorporating what they learn in their personal digital...

Timeline photos 11/04/2015

Great

Three Awesome Educational Games Hiding in Plain Sight 11/04/2015

You can find great think at the most unimaginable places! http://ow.ly/L6t5h

Three Awesome Educational Games Hiding in Plain Sight Never Alone, Elegy for a Dead World and Valiant Hearts are powerfully educational because they're so enjoyable to play.

Timeline photos 10/04/2015

Ideas and more ideas, the creativity never ends!