Twine is an open-source program for writing choose your own adventure stories. You can use Twine online or you can download the software for Mac or Windows. I used Twine online to create a short story. To write a choose your own adventure story with Twine online start by giving your story a title. After titling your story you will be taken to a grid canvas on which you can write short passages in a series of sticky notes. Each sticky note should be given its own title. To link elements of your stories you place brackets around the title of note within a note. Each note can be linked to two or more other notes in your story. When your story is complete you can read through it and click through it in your browser. If you use Twine online there are a couple of things you should know before you start. First, there is not a log-in or registration option. Your work is saved in your browser. To save your work permanently, use the “publish to file” option to download your work. Your Twine file can be opened later in your web browser where you can edit it further or simply read through your story. Second, to share Twine stories you will have to email the file to the person you want to read your story. Applications for Education This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers Twine – Write Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr Twine – Write Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Stories
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I have t-shirts made from recycled plastic bottles and I bet that your students do too. How did those bottles become the material for t-shirts? Why didn’t the recycling company just make more bottles out of the recycled bottles? And why are those numbers on the bottom of the bottle important? Those questions and more are answered in a new Reactions video, How Plastic Recycling Actually Works. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers The Process of Plastic Bottle Recycling syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr The Process of Plastic Bottle Recycling Planet Nutshell is a video production company that produces short, animated videos to explain products, services, and concepts. Within their education section you will find videos addressing topics in mathematics, physics, climate science, and cyber safety. Their series of videos about Internet safety consists of eighteen videos for K-12 students. The series is called NetSafe and it has eighteen episodes covering topics like protecting personal information, responsible posting of pictures, and mobile location privacy. The videos are labeled with grade levels so that students in high school don’t watch videos designed for K-3 students. A video for K-3 students and a video for high school students are embedded below. https://player.vimeo.com/video/18734341 https://player.vimeo.com/video/35294048 This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers 18 Great Cartoons That Teach Cyber Safety Lessons syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr 18 Great Cartoons That Teach Cyber Safety Lessons Planet Nutshell is a video production company that produces short, animated videos to explain products, services, and concepts. Within their education section you will find videos addressing topics in mathematics, physics, climate science, and cyber safety. Their series of videos about Internet safety consists of eighteen videos for K-12 students. The series is called NetSafe and it has eighteen episodes covering topics like protecting personal information, responsible posting of pictures, and mobile location privacy. The videos are labeled with grade levels so that students in high school don’t watch videos designed for K-3 students. A video for K-3 students and a video for high school students are embedded below. https://player.vimeo.com/video/18734341 https://player.vimeo.com/video/35294048 This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers 18 Great Cartoons That Teach Cyber Safety Lessons syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr 18 Great Cartoons That Teach Cyber Safety Lessons Yesterday’s blog post about the Chronicling America collection of digitized newspapers prompted Daniel Bassill to ask me about options for newspapers printed after 1963. My suggestion was to try the Google Newspaper Archive. In that archive you will find hundreds of digitized copies of newspapers printed around the world. In the archive you fill find newspapers published in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In the following video I provide a demonstration of how to search Google’s Newspaper Archive. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers Find & Read Old Newspapers Through the Google Newspaper Archive syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr Find & Read Old Newspapers Through the Google Newspaper Archive GLOBAL ED EVENTS
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For those who have followed ed tech for some decades now, there can be a feeling of “technology opportunity fatigue”–that is, of watching educators and innovators pin their hopes on successive technology waves, each of which are promised to revolutionize education. And yet, unlike so many other fields of professional endeavor, it feels to many that an actual technology revolution in education has never actually arrived. The question of when or if a revolution in education will take place, I would argue, is really one of “framing:” that is, how we perceive changes that are taking place and the context within which they are doing so. Quite assuredly, dramatic changes in teaching and learning are taking place, and perhaps the elusive nature of tracking those changes is the result of our not having the right “frames” for talking about them. If we are looking primarily at the lack of dramatic or widespread structural changes to our education system, we might not recognize that very significant changes are currently taking place at largely personal levels. Hopefully, the observations below will help to build frameworks for not only identifying these changes, but also seeing why and where these personal changes could lead to structural changes, why there might be confusion, and how to focus on those elements which are most important in teaching and learning. For at the core of this conversation, I believe we must remember that education is a particularly human endeavor. As the wise Jim Vanides, now retired from H-P, has said: educational technology works when it magnifies the best aspects of our human connections. My perception is that the survey responses corroborate this perspective, and that the “red herrings” of educational technology are those promises which are made that technology can substitute for or replace the human relationships that are at the core of actual learner growth. Get the report for free at ModernLearning.com. See you online! Steve Steve Hargadon Global Collaboration Week, Libraries and Social Crises, EdTech.World Dates, Goodbye CR20 Live, and Where Is the Ed Tech Revolution? syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr Global Collaboration Week, Libraries and Social Crises, EdTech.World Dates, Goodbye CR20 Live, and Where Is the Ed Tech Revolution? Yesterday’s blog post about the Chronicling America collection of digitized newspapers prompted Daniel Bassill to ask me about options for newspapers printed after 1963. My suggestion was to try the Google Newspaper Archive. In that archive you will find hundreds of digitized copies of newspapers printed around the world. In the archive you fill find newspapers published in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In the following video I provide a demonstration of how to search Google’s Newspaper Archive. This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers Find & Read Old Newspapers Through the Google Newspaper Archive syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr Find & Read Old Newspapers Through the Google Newspaper Archive GLOBAL ED EVENTS
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For those who have followed ed tech for some decades now, there can be a feeling of “technology opportunity fatigue”–that is, of watching educators and innovators pin their hopes on successive technology waves, each of which are promised to revolutionize education. And yet, unlike so many other fields of professional endeavor, it feels to many that an actual technology revolution in education has never actually arrived. The question of when or if a revolution in education will take place, I would argue, is really one of “framing:” that is, how we perceive changes that are taking place and the context within which they are doing so. Quite assuredly, dramatic changes in teaching and learning are taking place, and perhaps the elusive nature of tracking those changes is the result of our not having the right “frames” for talking about them. If we are looking primarily at the lack of dramatic or widespread structural changes to our education system, we might not recognize that very significant changes are currently taking place at largely personal levels. Hopefully, the observations below will help to build frameworks for not only identifying these changes, but also seeing why and where these personal changes could lead to structural changes, why there might be confusion, and how to focus on those elements which are most important in teaching and learning. For at the core of this conversation, I believe we must remember that education is a particularly human endeavor. As the wise Jim Vanides, now retired from H-P, has said: educational technology works when it magnifies the best aspects of our human connections. My perception is that the survey responses corroborate this perspective, and that the “red herrings” of educational technology are those promises which are made that technology can substitute for or replace the human relationships that are at the core of actual learner growth. Get the report for free at ModernLearning.com. See you online! Steve Steve Hargadon Global Collaboration Week, Libraries and Social Crises, EdTech.World Dates, Goodbye CR20 Live, and Where Is the Ed Tech Revolution? syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr Global Collaboration Week, Libraries and Social Crises, EdTech.World Dates, Goodbye CR20 Live, and Where Is the Ed Tech Revolution? Walking through the woods alone can be a scary prospect for a kid, but not for 7-year-old Matthew of Portland, Oregon. He doesn’t have much of a backyard at his condo, so the woods behind his house essentially serve the same purpose. He spends hours out there: swinging on a tire swing, tromping across the ravine to a friend’s house, and using garden shears to cut a path. He lays down sticks to form a bridge across the small stream that flows in the winter. And he does all of this without any adult supervision. Matthew’s mom, Laura Randall, wants her son to gain the sort of skills and confidence that only come with doing things yourself. But she didn’t just toss her 7-year-old out the door with some hiking boots and garden shears one day. They worked up to it gradually with what Randall calls “experiments in independence.” “Just those moments, incrementally bigger moments, where he can choose to be on his own,” Randall explains. Randall knows this isn’t the norm for today’s parenting style, where kids are shuttled from one supervised, structured activity to another. Gone are the days where kids ride their bikes alone until the streetlights come on. And Randall has encountered people who think she’s a bad parent — like the man who identified himself as an off-duty police officer, and started yelling at her when she left Matthew alone in the car for a few minutes while she ran into the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. Randall knows that parents in several states have been arrested for leaving kids unattended, for letting them walk to the park on their own, or even allowing them walk to school. And so she was worried about what this man might do. “[H]e … says, ‘Do you know how many kids go missing a year?’ And I said ‘By coincidence, I think I do know, and it’s very small!’ ” They talked it out, and the man eventually threw up his hands and walked away. Randall’s heart was pounding, but she felt confident defending her parenting — partly because she had connected with a group called Free Range Kids, which promotes childhood independence, and gives families the information they need to push back against a culture of overprotection. Its founder is Lenore Skenazy. “This very pessimistic, fearful way of looking at childhood isn’t based in reality,” Skenazy explains. “It is something that we have been taught.” For years, Skenazy sought to correct the misconception of childhood dangers — telling parents that childhood abductions and murders are at record lows, even as perceptions of danger have risen. But even as she talked about the benefits of giving kids independence, of free time, and of self-directed play, she realized that addressing the individual parents was only half the battle. Because even if they have the facts, parents could still feel uncomfortable if they’re the only ones affording their kids these freedoms. Also, it could get lonely being the only kid riding your bike down the street. “You send your kid outside and there’s nobody out there for them to play with — they’re gonna come right back in,” Skenazy laughs. “Because there is somebody to play with if they’re online.” Skenazy set out not just to change parents’ minds, but the culture at large. And founded a project called Let Grow. While its goal is a cultural shift, its methods are almost laughably simple. Let Grow is reaching out to elementary schools across the country to assign kids the Let Grow project as homework. Participating kids decide to do something on their own that they haven’t done before — whether it’s walking the dog around the block, or making dinner, or walking a few aisles over in the supermarket to get some eggs. The schools also set up “Let Grow play clubs” — mixed ages, no structure, and no adult direction. Just free, child-led play. Lori Koerner is the principal at Tremont Elementary in Long Island, one of a dozen New York schools piloting the project. She said that they saw a direct effect in the classroom. “The children were just more self-assured, and confident.” Koerner says with Let Grow, kids discover skills and abilities they didn’t know they had. And they also discover what it’s like to fail. While on the surface might not sound all that appealing, failure is how kids learn how to overcome obstacles, try out new ideas, and become resilient. It’s also how adults learn as well — ask any CEO.) “If we don’t offer them these opportunities to communicate, to collaborate, to problem-solve, then how can they be successful in a global society?” Koerner asks. According to psychologists, that’s an important question. Dr. Peter Gray, research professor at Boston College who focuses on child play, says that erring on the side of caution isn’t helping children. By trying to give kids a leg up, scheduling every free minute with karate or Little League or music lessons, parents are in fact doing them enormous harm. Gray says that over the past 50 years, as we’ve seen a decline in children’s freedom, we’ve seen an increase in responses on standardized questionnaires that indicate both depression and anxiety disorders. Specifically, an eight-fold increase on depression, and five-to-ten-fold increase on generalized anxiety disorder. Gray notes that this is just a correlation, and he’s looked at many possible explanations. “It doesn’t correlate with economic cycles, wars, or divorce rates. But it correlates very well with the decline of children’s freedom to play.” To Gray, this makes perfect sense. Especially when you consider that not having control of their decisions and life creates an external rather than internal locus of control. Internal locus of control is “the degree to which you feel that you’re in control of your own life, versus the degree you feel you’re a victim of fate and circumstance and powerful other people,” he says. “Every decade, young people report less internal locus of control, more external locus of control.” Putting kids in control helps them learn to solve problems, and cope better in new environments. Gray says animal studies even indicate that free play can promote pathways in the prefrontal cortex, strengthening control over the emotion-eliciting areas of the limbic system. For parents, like Laura Randall, it’s all part of the goal of parenting. “There’s the short game, where you’re sort of doing the best you can in the moment,” Randall explains. “But there’s the long game. And there’s paying attention to allowing a little risk, because it will pay off in the long run.” Randall understands that life has real risks. But so does getting in a car. And most of us still do it every day, because that’s how to get where we want to go. For her son Matthew to become a confident, competent adult, Randall wants him to go outside, make his own mistakes, and figure things out. And she hopes he won’t be the only kid out there doing it. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To ‘Let Grow’ syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To ‘Let Grow’ Walking through the woods alone can be a scary prospect for a kid, but not for 7-year-old Matthew of Portland, Oregon. He doesn’t have much of a backyard at his condo, so the woods behind his house essentially serve the same purpose. He spends hours out there: swinging on a tire swing, tromping across the ravine to a friend’s house, and using garden shears to cut a path. He lays down sticks to form a bridge across the small stream that flows in the winter. And he does all of this without any adult supervision. Matthew’s mom, Laura Randall, wants her son to gain the sort of skills and confidence that only come with doing things yourself. But she didn’t just toss her 7-year-old out the door with some hiking boots and garden shears one day. They worked up to it gradually with what Randall calls “experiments in independence.” “Just those moments, incrementally bigger moments, where he can choose to be on his own,” Randall explains. Randall knows this isn’t the norm for today’s parenting style, where kids are shuttled from one supervised, structured activity to another. Gone are the days where kids ride their bikes alone until the streetlights come on. And Randall has encountered people who think she’s a bad parent — like the man who identified himself as an off-duty police officer, and started yelling at her when she left Matthew alone in the car for a few minutes while she ran into the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. Randall knows that parents in several states have been arrested for leaving kids unattended, for letting them walk to the park on their own, or even allowing them walk to school. And so she was worried about what this man might do. “[H]e … says, ‘Do you know how many kids go missing a year?’ And I said ‘By coincidence, I think I do know, and it’s very small!’ ” They talked it out, and the man eventually threw up his hands and walked away. Randall’s heart was pounding, but she felt confident defending her parenting — partly because she had connected with a group called Free Range Kids, which promotes childhood independence, and gives families the information they need to push back against a culture of overprotection. Its founder is Lenore Skenazy. “This very pessimistic, fearful way of looking at childhood isn’t based in reality,” Skenazy explains. “It is something that we have been taught.” For years, Skenazy sought to correct the misconception of childhood dangers — telling parents that childhood abductions and murders are at record lows, even as perceptions of danger have risen. But even as she talked about the benefits of giving kids independence, of free time, and of self-directed play, she realized that addressing the individual parents was only half the battle. Because even if they have the facts, parents could still feel uncomfortable if they’re the only ones affording their kids these freedoms. Also, it could get lonely being the only kid riding your bike down the street. “You send your kid outside and there’s nobody out there for them to play with — they’re gonna come right back in,” Skenazy laughs. “Because there is somebody to play with if they’re online.” Skenazy set out not just to change parents’ minds, but the culture at large. And founded a project called Let Grow. While its goal is a cultural shift, its methods are almost laughably simple. Let Grow is reaching out to elementary schools across the country to assign kids the Let Grow project as homework. Participating kids decide to do something on their own that they haven’t done before — whether it’s walking the dog around the block, or making dinner, or walking a few aisles over in the supermarket to get some eggs. The schools also set up “Let Grow play clubs” — mixed ages, no structure, and no adult direction. Just free, child-led play. Lori Koerner is the principal at Tremont Elementary in Long Island, one of a dozen New York schools piloting the project. She said that they saw a direct effect in the classroom. “The children were just more self-assured, and confident.” Koerner says with Let Grow, kids discover skills and abilities they didn’t know they had. And they also discover what it’s like to fail. While on the surface might not sound all that appealing, failure is how kids learn how to overcome obstacles, try out new ideas, and become resilient. It’s also how adults learn as well — ask any CEO.) “If we don’t offer them these opportunities to communicate, to collaborate, to problem-solve, then how can they be successful in a global society?” Koerner asks. According to psychologists, that’s an important question. Dr. Peter Gray, research professor at Boston College who focuses on child play, says that erring on the side of caution isn’t helping children. By trying to give kids a leg up, scheduling every free minute with karate or Little League or music lessons, parents are in fact doing them enormous harm. Gray says that over the past 50 years, as we’ve seen a decline in children’s freedom, we’ve seen an increase in responses on standardized questionnaires that indicate both depression and anxiety disorders. Specifically, an eight-fold increase on depression, and five-to-ten-fold increase on generalized anxiety disorder. Gray notes that this is just a correlation, and he’s looked at many possible explanations. “It doesn’t correlate with economic cycles, wars, or divorce rates. But it correlates very well with the decline of children’s freedom to play.” To Gray, this makes perfect sense. Especially when you consider that not having control of their decisions and life creates an external rather than internal locus of control. Internal locus of control is “the degree to which you feel that you’re in control of your own life, versus the degree you feel you’re a victim of fate and circumstance and powerful other people,” he says. “Every decade, young people report less internal locus of control, more external locus of control.” Putting kids in control helps them learn to solve problems, and cope better in new environments. Gray says animal studies even indicate that free play can promote pathways in the prefrontal cortex, strengthening control over the emotion-eliciting areas of the limbic system. For parents, like Laura Randall, it’s all part of the goal of parenting. “There’s the short game, where you’re sort of doing the best you can in the moment,” Randall explains. “But there’s the long game. And there’s paying attention to allowing a little risk, because it will pay off in the long run.” Randall understands that life has real risks. But so does getting in a car. And most of us still do it every day, because that’s how to get where we want to go. For her son Matthew to become a confident, competent adult, Randall wants him to go outside, make his own mistakes, and figure things out. And she hopes he won’t be the only kid out there doing it. Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To ‘Let Grow’ syndicated from https://buyessayscheapservice.wordpress.com/ via Tumblr To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To ‘Let Grow’ |
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