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WeTopia Transforms Online Gaming Addiction Into Social Good

From the old if you can’t beat ’em category…at least time spent playing this video game could improve the lives of actual children.

Know any Farmville addicts? About 30 million people spend time on the game every day, pruning digital trees or exchanging cash for virtual tractors.While social gaming may be fun, there’s something absurd about buying fake goods. But what if all that energy and economic activity went to something productive in the real world instead?

That’s the value proposition behind WeTopia, a new social game from Sojo Studios that lets gamers directly fund initiatives to improve the lives of children.

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USGS Education FREE – 3D National Parks and more

Photographic tour of 66 different National Parks, online lectures, lesson plans, and more…all free!

Free resources from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) help teachers and students explore different lessons and topics. Students can watch videos and animations, access online lectures, find maps and images, connect via social media, and learn about topics such as water science and climate change. The site offers resources for primary, secondary, and undergraduate levels. BioData, a new website from the USGS, provides access to aquatic biological community and physical habitat data collected from stream ecosystems across the nation. Users can read an overview of the website and watch a 7-minute video about how scientists study stream ecology.

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Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms

Is ADHD a myth? Why does it occur more on the east coast?  And how can animation spice up a lecture? Check this out…

In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools’ dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.

Link to video: RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms

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Instructables—Make, How To, and DIY| The Committed Sardine

Jason Ohler posted this at the 21st Century Fluency Project.  If you’re looking for a creative way to give students a chance to apply knowledge, read on…

I just spent way more time than I have absolutely riveted to this site: Instructables. As the name implies, it instructs readers, but not on how to know stuff, but on how to make stuff. In the virtual age we have adapted to, actually doing something sticks out like a flashing neon sign.

What can you make? Thousands of things. What kinds of things? You name it. Cool clocks, cheap robots, plastic from scratch—even brain controlled wheelchairs. And before you say to yourself, “these people have too much time on their hands,” check it out. I see dozens if not hundreds of cool, low cost school projects here. This is a genuinely user-driven site aimed at educating and empowering the innovator within on a limited budget.

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Take this 1931 8th grade test (you will probably flunk)

The following exam was given in 1931 by the West Virginia Department of Education to students seeking graduation from eighth grade. For many students, that was the last year of formal schooling. The exam was sent to me by John N. Beall of Wilmington, N.C., who received it from his father, the teacher who administered the test in a one-room school in Gilmer County, W.Va.

CONTINUE TO “THE ANSWER SHEET”

By Valerie Strauss

 

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