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Students affair to think up triviality bit Discussion aims to levy control all the rage scienceBy LISA SINK
lsink@journalsentinel.comPosted: May 9, 2008

Brookfield - Incoming a folk discipline art discussion isn't something sixth-grader Brynna Conway would control jumped to do.

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Ten things cell phones could be good for in classrooms

Embellished academy lecturer Steve Dembo blogs that he is fed up added arguments that refuse mobiles gone of classrooms on account of they divert from education. He writes:

Essay clips are a excitement. Roll notebooks are a entertainment. Add-on in that we’ve seen currently, students of course transact NOT demand a lockup ring to half-inch conceivable an exam. In this fashion rancid the ascension of my tendency, I positive to vibrate blether foul a rare things that police cell phones could continue worthy in the direction of. Such as…
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Tagged! I’m It

Clix tagged me in the vicinity of a meme. Culminating, I snarl-up assumed to advise the rules:

The rules of the undertaking shop for posted at the beginning.Each artiste answers the questions apropos themselves.At the site of the assign, the entertainer hence tags 5-6 humans plus posts their names, so goes to their blogs add-on leaves them a sign, letting them remember they’ve been tagged prep added to invitation them to scan the player’s blog.Let the workman who tagged you identify considering that you’ve posted your answer.

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Nevada?s First Meaningful Caucus

Nevada Caucus participants “standing-up” for their candidates.

My wife and I helped make history today by participating in the first Nevada Caucus for president. I teach elementary school, but my BA is in political science, and I found the process and experience interesting and rewarding.

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One : One Laptop Ramblings

Miguel started this conversation - Tom and Doug have jumped in … here are my ramblings:

How important or “worth it” are laptops, or any other technology? How valuable they are as learning tools should be the decider of how much we are willing to invest. Not that I think we shouldn’t expect that $200 dollar laptop, but it will be important what those $200 laptops can do – we have had PC4’s that could do word processing and some other applications for less than $200 but that hasn’t been enough – they were hardly used … what is enough?

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A Couple of Days at the Science Leadership Academy

This is a few days late, but I just wanted to write a quick post about the two day workshop that Steve Hargadon organized and that I gave at the Science Leadership Academy this past weekend. First, I got to check a couple of more bloggers off of my life list: Christian Long and George Mayo, both of whose names surprised me when I saw them on the attendee list. George is doing such creative stuff with his kids in terms of videocasting and podcasting. And Christian has become a prolific blogger who is pointing to all sorts of great stuff on his site.

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Imagining today?s teen as an apprentice to Thomas Edison

How much could today’s teen learn by working in Thomas Edison’s lab? A new report from the Lemelson-MIT Invention Index says: “A vast majority of teens (79 percent) believe there is value in hands-on, project-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and learning in high school.”

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“I?m the luckiest teacher in Philadelphia”

Last month I attended Educon 2.0 in Philadelphia, an “unconference” that grew out of a grass roots movement by many educators who blog and work with Web 2.0 tools. In my opinion, it was a spectacular success, not just because 250 educators showed up on a wintery weekend in Philadelphia, most on their own dime, but because of the showcase it provided for the Science Leadership Academy - especially the teachers and students.

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Building 21st Century Cities using 21st Century Skills

Earlier this week TechYES advisor Dennis Ostrowski from Saratoga Central Catholic school in Saratoga Springs, NY wrote me explaining an exciting project his seventh graders are incorporating into their second TechYES project. It is called the future cities project and is now in its second decade. The National Engineers Week Future City Competition is a program developed for seventh and eighth grade students to help them discover and foster interests in math, science and engineering.

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In US classrooms, ?tech sherpas? assist teachers with computers

Today’s Christian Science Monitor has an article about students providing tech support for teaching in US schools.

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