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Does Homeschooling Work? Yes
Homeschooled Children Continue Outperforming Their Public School Counterparts as --Credit to Pot Pie Homeschooling Increases in Popularity In America, there was a time when the idea of homeschooling...
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You Have Permission to Disrupt Class
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen My rating: 4 of 5 stars Clayton Christensen offers a believable and intuitive approach to...
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Which Social Media Should Be Allowed in Schools?
Social networks dominated by Facebook now account for 22.7 percent of the hours spent in front of a computer, a leap of 43 percent over last year’s figures. What would you allow in schools? According...
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Book Review: Kindergarten Technology–32 Lessons Every Child Can Do
As the school year begins, here’s a useful book on what to introduce, when, to the newest technology students: Kindergarten Technology: 32 Lessons Every Kindergartner Can Accomplish on a Computer by...
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#6: Photoshop for Fifth Graders–Autofixes
We started with a list of Photoshop skills your fifth graders can accomplish. Yesterday we used MS Word for basic skills. You’re now ready for the one all the pros use: Adobe Photoshop. Before I start,...
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How Blogs Make Kids Better Writers
If kids are inspired to write, they get better at writing. The trick is to make writing fun. Blogs do that. The students get to interact with their favorite toy–a computer–and go online for legitimate...
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How to Adapt Lessons to Common Core State Standards
Common Core standards–adopted in 46 states Common Core State Standards, proposed by the National Board of Governors and adopted by 46 states to date, provide a consistent, clear understanding of what...
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Weekend Website #98: TED-Ed
Every Friday, I share a website (or app) that I’ve heard about, checked into, been excited to use. This one is a math app. Since ‘math’ is by far the most popular search term of readers who seek out my...
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The Elephantine Impact of Technology on Education
Have you noticed what’s happening in your child’s school? Technology. There’s rarely a lesson taught, be it math or science or health, that doesn’t include some form of technology Education has changed...
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New Literacies Enable Smarter Researching
In my last post, we talked about “digital citizens”, the modern student who lives in two worlds. One he can touch with his hands, the other only with his mind. It’s this latter one that has...
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