Archive for June 7th, 2011
Apps in Education: Apps 4 Teachers
June 7th, 2011
Brain calisthenics for abstract ideas
June 7th, 2011http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-calisthenics-for-abstract-ideas
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Brain calisthenics for abstract ideas unkown Jun 6, 2011 9:15 PM –>Recent research has found that true experts have something at least as valuable as a mastery of the rules: gut instinct, an instantaneous grasp of the type of problem they’re up against. Like the ballplayer who can “read” pitches early, or the chess master who “sees” the best move, they’ve developed a great eye.
Now, a small group of cognitive scientists is arguing that schools and students could take far more advantage of this same bottom-up ability, called perceptual learning. The brain is a pattern-recognition machine, after all, and when focused properly, it can quickly deepen a person’s grasp of a principle, new studies suggest.
Perceptual knowledge builds automatically: There’s no reason someone with a good eye for fashion or wordplay cannot develop an intuition for classifying rocks or mammals or algebraic equations, given a little interest or motivation.
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TEDTalks : Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken – Jack Horner (2011)
June 7th, 2011http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~3/NSON4qrl9F8/1163
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TEDTalks : Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken – Jack Horner (2011) unkown Jun 6, 2011 6:00 PM –>Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a “Chickenosaurus”.
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video: sun flares up 10 times size of earth
June 7th, 2011http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/video-nasa-keeps-watch-as-the-sun-flares-up/7361
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Video: NASA keeps watch as the sun flares up Christie Nicholson Jun 7, 2011 4:20 PM –>This morning the sun released billions of tons of matter in an explosion that is known as a large coronal mass ejection (CME.) Apparently the violent eruption mushroomed up and then landed back, appearing to cover almost half of the solar surface. NASAââ¬â¢s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught this spectacular image of the explosion at 1:41 a.m. Scientists believe that CMEs erupt…
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June 7th, 2011Group seeks mandatory kindergarten. Really?
June 7th, 2011Interesting how preschool folks would like to see public funded preschool services mandated. Apparently it’s hard to succeed in kindergarten if you don’t know traditional western children’s stories. Furthermore, how does mandatory kindergarten help increase parental involvement? A senseless contradiction driven by human response to tough economic times?
Movement seeks to align PreK-3 curriculum to transform early educationA new initiative is aimed at improving early-childhood education by aligning what is taught in preschool through third grade. The PreK-3 movement was sparked by a group of preschool and kindergarten teachers in Santa Maria, Calif., who found, among other things, that many immigrant students needed more early exposure to classic American children’s stories to succeed in kindergarten. The movement also is seeking free public preschool for all students, mandatory full-day kindergarten and increased parental involvement in their children’s education. McClatchy Washington Bureau/The Hechinger Report (6/6)
Etymology of Academic
June 7th, 2011
Technology Integration for Sustainable Learning
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