Category Archives: Education

Teen turns water into an authentic learning project

Posted on September 21, 2010 by

Kids care. Here’s a Salt Lake Tribune article about a middle school student, Stephen Jarman, from the Canyons [Utah] School District who is raising awareness about the lack of accessible and safe drinking water for many people in the world … Continue reading →

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Something to Think About: Labels and 21st Century Students

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

A colleague shared an email that was sent to her school faculty by a fellow educator today.  The brief note indicated this was “something to think about”, and it contained two lists from a 1989 professional journal that described the … Continue reading →

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Scholarships for Budding Ecologists

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

Do you have students or children of your own who have a penchant for helping the planet? Maybe you teach an environmental science or biology class and are looking for an incentive to get your students interested in taking initiative … Continue reading →

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Innovative Technology Use in Outdoor Education Survey

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

Are you an outdoor/environmental educator or science teacher or professor who uses technology with students out in in the field? If so, are you willing to share some ideas with the rest of the world? I’m compiling a list of  … Continue reading →

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Report to Congress: Media literacy, not fear, can protect youth online

Posted on August 8, 2010 by

Back in June, The Online Safety and Technology Working Group finished their government-mandated report to Congress, entitled “Youth Safety on a Living Internet.” The report “points to the growing importance of online citizenship and media-literacy education, in addition to what … Continue reading →

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Innovation in Education – #rscon10

Posted on July 30, 2010 by

This week as I traveled I listened to a story on NPR about the Concord Free Press living up to its name and actually giving away the books it publishes. The idea struck Hamilton Fitch of The Nation magazine as … Continue reading →

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Boys and Comics – here’s one high school that gets it

Posted on July 27, 2010 by

School Library Journal posted this article today (Comics Are Key to Promoting Literacy in Boys, Study Says ) highlighting a report that suggests boys may well benefit from reading comics and graphic novels. The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) argues … Continue reading →

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Blurring the boundaries for learning

Posted on July 18, 2010 by

Meet Kiran Sethi, educator and founder of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad. She believes in kids and creating schools that honor them… “if education is embedded in a real world context — blurring the boundaries between school and life — … Continue reading →

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