Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children's Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying its children's literature. Occupying a space somewhere between the purely didactic and the nonsensical, most children’s books published in the past few hundred years have attempted to find a line between the two poles, seeking a balance between entertainment and instruction. However, that line seems to move closer to one pole or another depending on the prevailing cultural sentiments of the time. And the very fact that children’s books were hardly published at all before the early 18th century tells us a lot about when and how modern ideas of childhood as a separate category of existence began. “By the end of the 18th century,” writes Newcastle University professor M.O. Grenby, “children’s literature was a flourishing, separate and secure part of the publishing industry in Britain.”
How to Make a Lightboard for Less Than $100 (Step-by-Step, With Illustrations) There have been some great blog posts from flipped educators Jon Bergmann, Kevin Hogendorp, and Joel Speranza recently on how to make lightboards. I want to share with you how I made my lightboard for less than $100. I also want to show you how to maximise the quality of your lightboard videos by how you set up your studio, lighting and camera. What is the Lightboard?
Curation as Digital Literacy Practice I have been writing my PhD so haven’t updated this blog for a while. Thesis writing is taking up a lot of my mental space as I get the ideas, storyline and contentions to ‘coalesce’ and cohere in a manner suitable for such a piece of work. I’ve been mulling over a series of ideas in my analysis of digital literacies, and one of them is the concept and practice of ‘curation’ as a digital literacy, and what the implications are for curation practices to be better understood, theorised, and subsequently harnessed for educational purposes. My PhD thesis (Bhatt, forthcoming) is not fully completed yet, but some ideas are worth throwing out to collide with others as part of what I believe is a public conversation (#impact #engagement). [Aside: see this brief lecture by Steven Johnson on the ‘collision’ of ideas and the sharing of half-baked hunches]
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16 cool Google Meet Ideas for Teachers COVID-19 pandemic has pushed us all out of our comfort zones and if you’re a teacher, you must be finding it hard to manage your students and make them learn remotely from your home. Fortunately, video conferencing tools like Google Meet exist to ensure you still have a strong bond with your students until you see them at school. But having set up Google Meet for your class isn’t enough. You will need to do a little more than that to keep them engaged and productive. In this post, we’ll discuss a bunch of activities and ideas that you can follow to light up your teaching game and also make distance learning fun for the kids.
How To Curate Curriculum Resources with Adobe Spark Were you following along with my travels on Instagram stories? You might have seen snaps of my trip to Buffalo earlier this month. I was born and raised in New York and have traveled to lots of parts of the state. But this was my first trip to Buffalo — and it was lots of fun! During the quick visit, I spent the day with teachers leading a regional training for folks interested in placing “tasks before apps.” Travel - Japan’s unusual way to view the world Withdrawing my hands reluctantly from the slowly spinning bowl, I watched its uneven sides slowly come to a stop, wishing I could straighten them out just a little more. I was in the ancient pottery town of Hagi in rural Yamaguchi, Japan, and while I trusted the potter who convinced me to let it be, I can’t say I understood his motives. Smiling, he announced, “it has wabi-sabi” – and whisked the bowl away for firing. I sat, contemplating the lack of symmetry and wondering what on Earth he meant. As it turns out, failing to understand this phrase is not unusual.
26 Zoom Games for Kids: How to play games on a video call Hard as it is for adults during this time of social distancing, let’s not forget that the kids are technically on summer break. Being cooped up in the house is no picnic. Luckily we have video conferencing apps like Zoom, which enable kids to interact with each other. Zoom can also be used to play games virtually, and that’s just what we’ll be covering in this article. Collections by Destiny Collect, create, deliver and share in a whole new way with Collections by Destiny®. Destiny Collections creates new, collaborative ways for librarians, teachers and students to share free or purchased resources across the district, school or with other users. Students and teachers can access district resources in Destiny Discover and add them to any Collection. Each collection can include web pages, images, documents, eBooks, and more! Collections can also be shared publicly or kept private.