The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. 20 Free and Fun Ways To Curate Web Content 23.98K Views 0 Likes What's the best way to organize it all into at least some reasonable manner? It’s Time To Crowdsource Your School’s Social Media Policy 12.53K Views 0 Likes Every school has a different policy when it comes to social media. Science Rap B.A.T.T.L.E.S. Bring Hip-Hop Into The Classroom : Code Switch This story comes to us from our friends at the science desk. They produced the 7-minute video documentary you see above. "Modern-day rappers — all they talk about is money, and all these unnecessary and irrelevant topics," says Victoria Richardson, a freshman at Bronx Compass High School. Richardson and her teammates were finalists at the Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. "Science Genius is about harvesting the power of urban youth culture," says Christopher Emdin, a professor of education at Columbia University's Teacher's College who created the program. hide captionJayda Neor and Kephra Shaw Meredith, seventh-graders from KIPP Bridge middle school in Oakland, Calif., perform a rap song about the discovery of DNA's structure in front of a green screen. Tom McFadden Jayda Neor and Kephra Shaw Meredith, seventh-graders from KIPP Bridge middle school in Oakland, Calif., perform a rap song about the discovery of DNA's structure in front of a green screen.
El algoritmo de Dios El algoritmo de Dios es un término que surgió en la búsqueda de aquel algoritmo que indicara los pasos mínimos que resuelven un cubo de Rubik cualquiera. El término se usa profusamente, no sólo para el cubo de Rubik. Mucho antes de conocer dicho término, cuando me encontraba con diversos tipos de problemas, ya me asaltaba recurrentemente una pregunta irrelevante (para el caso que me ocupaba), pero que espero te haga pensar un poco en la importancia de algunas cuestiones que quizás no conoces: “¿Qué solución daría Dios si fuera él quien resolviera el problema?” Lo más sorprendente quizás, es que “las soluciones de Dios” no sólo no están vedadas al intelecto humano, sino que son numerosas y prolíficas. Poniendo condiciones a Dios “¿cual es la solución/respuesta PERFECTA?” Un ejemplo. Sí, lo se, en realidad los concursos más fascinantes eran las “demos”, en lugar de calcular un aburrido Pi se trataba de crear una “intro” (¡¿tampoco sabes lo que es?! El problema perfecto
The Magazine - The Siege of Academe September/October 2012The Siege of Academe For years, Silicon Valley has failed to breach the walls of higher education with disruptive technology. But the tide of battle is changing. By Kevin Carey It’s three o’clock in the afternoon on Easter, and I’m standing on a wooden deck in the Corona Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, looking out toward Nob Hill. Some of them are the kinds of hackers a college dean could love: folks who have come up with ingenious but polite ways to make campus life work better. But many of the people here are engaged in business pursuits far more revolutionary in their intentions. Last August, Marc Andreessen, the man whose Netscape Web browser ignited the original dot-com boom and who is now one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture capitalists, wrote a much-discussed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. This hype has happened before, of course. Kevin Carey is the director of the Education Policy program at the New America Foundation.
How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future | Wired Science The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay. The second, third, and fourth things to hit him were locusts. The insects frequently escaped their cages and careened into the faces of scientists and lab techs. The room was hot and humid, and the constant commotion of 20,000 bugs produced a miasma of aerosolized insect exoskeleton. Many of the staff had to wear respirators to avoid developing severe allergies. “It wasn’t the easiest place to do science,” Couzin says. In the mid-2000s that lab was, however, one of the only places on earth to do the kind of science Couzin wanted. Couzin would put groups of up to 120 juveniles into a sombrero-shaped arena he called the locust accelerator, letting them walk in circles around the rim for eight hours a day while an overhead camera filmed their movements and software mapped their positions and orientations. Click to Open Overlay Gallery
THALER'S QUESTION - An EDGE Special Event LEE SMOLIN Founding and Senior Faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada; Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo; Author, The Trouble With Physics Perhaps the most embarrassing example from 20th Century physics of a false but widely held belief was the claim that von Neumann had proved in his 1930 text book on the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics that hidden variables theories are impossible. These would be theories that give a complete description of individual systems rather than the statistical view of ensembles described by quantum mechanics. In the early 1950's David Bohm reinvented de Broglie's theory. An example in economics is the notion that an economic markets can usefully be described as having a single unique and stable equilibrium, to which it is driven by market forces. I cannot comment on why economists made the mistake of thinking about market equilibrium as if it were unique.
On the apparent horrors of requiring high school students to take chemistry. | Doing Good Science There’s a guest post on the Washington Post “Answer Sheet” blog by David Bernstein entitled “Why are you forcing my son to take chemistry?” in which the author argues against his 15-year-old son’s school’s requirement that all its students take a year of chemistry. Derek Lowe provides a concise summary of the gist: My son will not be a chemist. He will not be a scientist. A year of chemistry class will do nothing for him but make him miserable. Bernstein’s post is a slurry of claims about chemistry, secondary education, and the goals of education more generally with respect to human flourishing — in other words, the kind of thing I need to take apart for close examination before responding. So, that’s what I’m going to do here. Let’s start with Bernstein’s account of the dawning of the horror: Bernstein is right that tradition is not in itself a good reason to require that all high school students take a year-long chemistry course. [M]y son is not going to be a scientist. Mr.
ORNAMENTO Y DELITO- ADOLFO LOOS El embrión humano pasa, en el claustro materno, por todas las fases evolutivas del reino animal. Cuando nace un ser humano, sus impresiones sensoriales son iguales a las de un perro recién nacido. Su infancia pasa por todas las transformaciones que corresponden a aquellas por las que pasó la historia del género humano. A los dos años, lo ve todo como si fuera un papúa. A los cuatro, como un germano.
Appealing Apps for Educators: Workflow Apps to Manage Student Work - iPhone app article - Jennie Magiera Many educators are realizing that the most powerful apps are those that allow for student creation. Some apps, for example Pages, Explain Everything and Popplet, push students to demonstrate, apply and synthesize their learning. However, the question quickly becomes: How do the students turn in these digital work products? And... How do teachers then give feedback and grade them? Google Drive and Chrome (Free) Many schools and districts have embraced Google Apps for Education, or GAFE. Compatible creation apps: Google Chrome (documents and spreadsheets) or Google Drive (documents) Dropbox (Free) Dropbox is a mainstay for many individuals who use cloud storage. Compatible creation apps: Any that allow for “share via Dropbox” or “share via email” (for example: PaperPort Notes, Popplet, Comic Life, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, etc.) Showbie (Free) This little app can be viewed as Dropbox, education style. eBackpack ($99/teacher)