Child Hunger in America's Schools
“…The National Center for Children in Poverty reports that nearly 16 million children in the United States—22 percent of all children—live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level, which is $23,021 a year for a family of four. But that figure doesn’t tell the whole story. Research shows that, on average, families need an income of about twice that level to cover basic expenses. Using this standard, the number of children living in low-income families increases to a staggering 45 percent…”
FAST COMPANY | TECH FORCAST
NEWS CORP. GETS INTO THE TABLET BUSINESS WITH AMPLIFY
THE 10-INCH ANDROID TABLET WILL BE MARKETED TO SCHOOLS, BUNDLED WITH EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE AND A $99 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION.
GOOD | What if students designed their own schools?
Students at a public high school in MA are developing their own school-within-a-school.
WIRED | GeekDad
Motion Math: Helping Drive iPad and Education Research
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/motion-math-education-research/
FLIP TEACHING
Flip teaching (or flipped classroom) is a form of blended learning which encompasses any use of technology to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a teacher can spend more time interacting with students instead of lecturing. This is most commonly being done using teacher-created videos that students view outside of class time. It is also known as backwards classroom, reverse instruction, flipping the classroom, and reverse teaching.[1]
Unblocking Innovation
“Unblocking Innovation is an ongoing repository of our reflections on the nature of innovation in learning and education—our focus of research for the past 5 years.”
GameDesk
“GameDesk is a 501(c)3 nonprofit research, development, and outreach organization that seeks to rethink learning through play, making, and interaction.
We look to transform the learning experience, help close the achievement gap, and deeply engage students in learning core curriculum.
The organization (originally developed out of research and support at the University of Southern California’s IMSC) has now been in development, practice, and/or evaluation for over four years in various schools, learning centers, and homes nationally. ”
Crayon Creatures turns drawings into sculpture.
Giving students the opportunity to learn to code.
“Inocente” is a movie about a young artist who grew up homeless in San Diego.
ARTS (A Reason To Survive) - Art Therapy program for homeless youth
NYT | Schools Ask: Gifted or Just Well-Prepared?
…”Last year, the Education Department said it would change one of the tests used for admission to public school gifted kindergarten and first-grade classes in order to focus more on cognitive ability and less on school readiness, which favors children who have more access to preschool and tutoring.
Scores had been soaring. For the 2012-13 school year, nearly 5,000 children qualified for gifted and talented kindergarten seats in New York City public schools. That was more than double the number five years ago. “We were concerned enough about our definition of giftedness being affected by test prep — as we were prior school experience, primary spoken language, socioeconomic background and culture — that we changed the assessment,” Adina Lopatin, a deputy chief academic officer in the Education Department, said.”…
10x10 presents Girl Rising a movie about girls around the world pushing for a greater future for themselves, and the crucial role that education makes in their upward mobility.
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