The local council announced that “kids could have unlimited salad, fruit, and bread.” Thanks to the 9-year-old clever girl, Martha Payne, who decided to start a blog with photos and vital statistics about her daily school lunches. Almost immediately, Martha’s school lunch blog got international attention, including from prominent school lunch busybody Jamie Oliver.
(via infoneer-pulse)
They’re neither dumb to use today’s technologies or social networking sites nor they believe that “Mark Zuckerberg will create an application in the future that helps them get their study on while Facebook stalking.” In spite of the distracting nature of technologies, they don’t think of deactivating their Facebook account. Sometimes they even found themselves mindlessly minimizing Microsoft Word to log into Facebook.
A small minority of today’s university students don’t use email and others are confused by the array of technologies available at universities. Yet many students couldn’t bear to be without their mobile phones and find themselves distracted by social networking sites during study. […] The distracting nature of technologies was commonly cited in the interviews but also happily accepted. Most students had developed ways to cope with the distractions while studying. These ranged from switching off the sources of distraction to taking breaks for social networking.
- Kids consume a heck of a lot of media—and more all the time. Basically, if kids are awake, they’re consuming media. And, increasingly, they’re consuming multiple forms of media at the same time.
- Kids’ print media consumption is tiny and falling.
- Kids’ digital media consumption is going through the roof.
And you can click through for what may be dozens of (admittedly easy to read) charts that take the results a step further.
One of four diagrams for Bloom’s Taxonomy, all with reference links to larger versions.
(via Social Learning Systems: Tips for Writing Instructional Objectives - Bloom’s Taxonomy Job Aids)
Obviously, a great news that engineers with BTech degrees will find it easier to seek jobs and opportunities for higher education abroad from 2013.
Engineers with undergraduate degrees will find it easier to seek jobs and opportunities for higher studies abroad from 2013, if India’s bid to join the elite Washington Accord for international accreditation is accepted. […] The National Board of Accreditation, under the aegis of All India Council for Technical Education, plans to bid to become a permanent member of the Washington Accord in June 2013. […] India is yet to invite the Washington Accord to audit its accreditation system, a crucial process for becoming a full member, despite the country being granted a provisional status in 2007.
The kids’ e-book market is still nascent, with e-books making up just about three percent of children’s book sales. That could change now that Scholastic, the world’s largest children’s book publishers, is digitizing the majority of its list and releasing an e-reading app, “Storia,” that includes a large e-bookstore and lets kids read e-books based on their reading level.
Storia is in beta now and available for Windows PC through the website; an iPad version is coming later this month. The app itself is free and comes with five free e-books. A store contains over 1,000 other children’s e-books—many available in digital format for the first time—that can be sorted by grade level, reading level, age and character/series.
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How to cite tweets – APA & MLA style » via labnol.org
When Ed Knight wants to find out what his 6-year-old did in school, he can scroll the Twitter feed on his iPhone for clues to start a conversation with his quiet son, who sometimes holds back when recounting details of his day.
That’s because Evan and others in first-grade teacher Jodi Conrad’s class use Twitter to send out a weekly newsletter, update the days’ activities and give parents reminders about upcoming programs.
Conrad’s class at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Glen Ellyn is among a growing number that use social media and other technology to supplement lessons, even for very young students.
“These are tools that come standard in life right now,” said Conrad, 36, who controls the account and the messages that the class, as a group, delivers. “I do it outside of class, so why not do it inside.”
Her students also contribute to a classroom blog, make videos for a private YouTube account intended for parents, and write books using computer software.Awesome :o)
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“10 Things Students Should Never Post on Facebook”
- Status updates like: “Going home…” or “Having my breakfast before going to school…” or “I’m leaving on a holiday…” and anything about your daily schedule.. burglars and kidnappers have been known to use these little hints to their advantage
- Status updates about how your mom thinks that not going to school is illegal. And, anything you wouldn’t want your parents to see
- Your or your parents’ relationship drama
- Gross and weird stuff like R-Rated memes
- Anything you wouldn’t want a college admissions board to see
- Complaints and insults about your teachers as well as about your seniors
- Links to questionable web content i.e., links those redirect to NSFW stuffs
- Financial information such as how much money your parents do or don’t have in their bank account
- Stuff like your bullying stories, over-the-top party pictures and gossips those are easy to spread online
- “Finally, if you are not comfortable about it… don’t share it”
