Create-a-Story
By Craig Gill Age Range: 7 to 11 This resource can be used to help children who may lack ideas during creative writing lessons. It consists of four charts, which contain 81 characters, 81 places, 81 situations and 81 objects. WARNING - some of them are a little gruesome! The downloadable resources can be found here This should be enough for even the most unimaginative child to create at least one or two stories! How to use the charts. 1) Write down any two figure number (example: 58) 2) Using the first chart (Characters), find the square which is 5 across and 8 down, and write down the word/phrase in this square (example: the prince of the Gypsies). 3) Choose two figure numbers for the other three charts, and find the appropriate squares (example: "an attic in an old house", "a death trap", and "a tape recording"). 4) Weave a story around those four ingredients. Variations: 1) Write down two numbers and use these forwards and backwards, e.g. 25 and 52, 81 and 18.
J’ai débranché | Thierry Crouzet
Au début, vous regardiez vos mails une ou deux fois par jour. Combien de fois le faites-vous aujourd’hui ? Vous arrive-t-il de consulter vos messages compulsivement toutes les cinq minutes, comme si votre vie en dépendait ? Cherchez-vous parfois votre mobile avec plus de fébrilité que vos clés ? En un mot, seriez-vous accro à internet ? Cet outil inventé pour nous aider à mieux communiquer ferait-il de nous des esclaves ? Épuisé par quinze ans d’hyperactivité en ligne, Thierry Crouzet, gourou des réseaux sociaux et auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur les nouvelles technologies, entame une cure de désintoxication. Présentation Ses amis disaient qu’il était addict aux réseaux sociaux. Maître Eckhart a écrit « Vous croyez connaître la mer parce que vous la traversez avec un bateau, mais la mer n’est pas une surface, elle est abîme. Tout au long de son aventure, ses amis, ses enfants, et surtout sa femme, véritable héroïne de son livre, ne l’ont pas ménagé. Freiner.
Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail - Jessica Lahey
A new study explores what happens to students who aren't allowed to suffer through setbacks. Matthew Benoit/Shutterstock Thirteen years ago, when I was a relatively new teacher, stumbling around my classroom on wobbly legs, I had to call a student's mother to inform her that I would be initiating disciplinary proceedings against her daughter for plagiarism, and that furthermore, her daughter would receive a zero for the plagiarized paper. "You can't do that. She didn't do anything wrong," the mother informed me, enraged. "But she did. "No, I mean she didn't do it. I don't remember what I said in response, but I'm fairly confident I had to take a moment to digest what I had just heard. In the end, my student received a zero and I made sure she re-wrote the paper. While I am not sure what the mother gained from the experience, the daughter gained an understanding of consequences, and I gained a war story. I'm done fantasizing about ways to make that mom from 13 years ago see the light.
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Kílian Jornet Burgada
Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Kílian Jornet i Burgada, né le 27 octobre 1987, originaire de Sabadell en Catalogne (Espagne), est un spécialiste en ski-alpinisme, ultra-trail et course à pied en montagne. Il est trois fois champion du monde de skyrunning. Il est considéré comme l’un des plus grands coureurs à pied en montagne de tous les temps, parfois surnommé « l'extraterrestre du trail[2] ». Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Kílian naît le 27 octobre 1987 à Sabadell en Catalogne. À treize ans, il intègre le Centre de Tecnificació d'Esquí de Muntanya de Catalunya, où il commence à s'entraîner sérieusement pour le ski-alpinisme[3]. Sa grande capacité de récupération physique et sa grande polyvalence technique[n 1] lui permettent de gagner en 2009 la Coupe du Monde individuelle de ski-alpinisme et de devenir champion du monde de courses de montagne. Summits of my Life[modifier | modifier le code] Palmarès[modifier | modifier le code] Légende :
Study Shows How Classroom Design Affects Student Learning
As debate over education reform sizzles, and as teachers valiantly continue trying to do more with less, a new study suggests that it might be worth diverting at least a little attention from what’s going on in classrooms to how those spaces are being designed. The paper, published in the journal Building and the Environment, found that classroom design could be attributed to a 25% impact, positive or negative, on a student’s progress over the course of an academic year. The difference between the best- and worst-designed classrooms covered in the study? A full year’s worth of academic progress. The study was conducted over the 2011–12 academic year, with 751 students in 34 classrooms, spread across seven primary schools in the seaside town of Blackpool, England. So what did they find? Read more here. [Hat tip: Wired] [Image: Brain and Board via Shutterstock]
Theodore Zeldin: The Art of Conversation « Perfect Path
If you want to gain trust in your profession, conversation is the best way to achieve it. Nowadays we do much more talking than we did in the past but we haven’t studied conversation. Talk is different from conversation. Now a new kind of conversation – who it is you keep company with – a social activity not just the exchange of words. You’re in corporations not only to make money but to bring people together to do things that they could not do alone. Public opinion polls show that people don’t trust business to tell the truth. The new relationship between public work and private life. Give the same attention to conversation as you do to looking after your body (!) It is not enough to know a lot and be able to talk narrowly about your stuff, you have to be able to communicate with people from different backgrounds in different contexts. There is now an enormous opportunity for us to change the world and facilitate conversation. How can you learn to converse? Like this: Like Loading...
With Growth Of 'Hacker Scouting,' More Kids Learn To Tinker
hide captionKids build robots with Popsicle sticks at an Oakland meeting of Hacker Scouts, a group that encourages young people to create do-it-yourself crafts and electronics. Jon Kalish for NPR Kids build robots with Popsicle sticks at an Oakland meeting of Hacker Scouts, a group that encourages young people to create do-it-yourself crafts and electronics. Countless kids have grown up with the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts or Campfire Girls, but for some families, the uniforms and outdoor focus of traditional Scouting groups don't appeal. In recent months, Scoutlike groups that concentrate on technology and do-it-yourself projects have been sprouting up around the country. Ace Monster Toys is a hacker space in Oakland, Calif., where members share high-tech tools. The kids in Hacker Scouts are not breaking into computer networks. On this warm fall day, Alicia Davis, 10, is wearing a wool hat she knit herself. "I've been sewing on little felt pieces with this," Davis explains.
