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Where does the entrepreneurial spirit really come from?
Here's some inspiration for Friday that will set your weekend up right! This is the story about a wall in Mumbai that embodies entrepreneurism, culture, and popular art.
As the author says, entrepreneurship is a form of artistry. I know you will enjoy the artwork and the story about it here.
Have a fabulous weekend!
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Progress Index Number of home-school students increasing Progress Index "We've been able to move at each child's individual pace, choose a curriculum best-suited to their individual learning styles and needs, and pursue their interests in a way...
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While I am certain this is not for every family there are a growing number electing to teach their own children. There is so much material out there that this can deliver a good education when managed right. I do not see this as undermining the public school either. Delete the scoop?
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Crunchzilla is a service that students can use to learn to write Javascript programs. There are two versions of Crunchzilla; Code Maven and Code Monster. Code Monster is designed for students of middle school age.
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Even if you are older this site can help you understand code writing. Delete the scoop?
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Design Squad - Engage Kids in Hands-on Engineering Projects via Free Technology for Teachers - ... http://t.co/pnbCqwwKDH
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This looks like a great resource to try out.
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The categories are technology, structures, sports, space, sound, simple machines, health, green, energy, and electricity. Each activity contains a materials list and directions. Some of the activities also have demonstration videos. Delete the scoop?
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Learning styles: ways to relax and read #bced #SEL #learning
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This is not so high tech but I really believe we are long over due to making school feel more home like and comfortable. Far too many spend the bulk of our lives in school or on a job for our environmnet to be left to the same old stale, boring solutions. This offers some nice start thinking about it points regardless of the age group you work with. Delete the scoop?
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Despite its popularity, the personality test has been subject to sustained criticism by professional psychologists for over three decades. (Have we all been duped by the Myers-Briggs test?
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How many have completed all or part of this test over the years. This article presents very good points to support the idea that while it's kind of fun to see "who you are and what your like" that might just be all there really is to these tests.
Excerpt: FORTUNE -- "When Frank Parsons opened the world's first career guidance center in Boston in 1908, he began by asking prospective clients 116 penetrating questions about their ambitions, strengths, and weaknesses (and how often they bathed). But then he did something more unusual: He measured their skulls.
Parsons was a committed believer in phrenology. If you had a large forehead, he might recommend you become a lawyer or engineer. But if your skull was more developed behind the ears, you were of the "animal type" and best suited to manual work.
Career advice has, thankfully, come a long way since then. But now, instead of measuring the outside of people's heads, it has become common to measure the inside using psychometric tests. Personality testing has grown into a major industry and is standard procedure in leadership and management courses, as part of job-interview processes, and, increasingly, in career counselling. But should we really trust such tests to deliver scientific, objective truth?" Delete the scoop?
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Have you signed up for Mozilla's 'teach the web" free online course? You'll be a few weeks behind but that is OK.! Delete the scoop?
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth - invest in your soul
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Here is an opinion about how Art does make kids smarter. What do you think? Does art make kids smarter. Do we need to be more careful about what kind of art we make because so much is learned from it? Kids today spend more time than ever in and learn far more from their man made environmnet and the visual and audio visual art messages than they spend one on one communicating and interacting with real people or natural surrounding outdoors. Delete the scoop?
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VocabularySpellingCity's mobile apps have word games, vocabulary games, and spelling games from the popular SpellingCity website. Use our apps in the classroom or at home.
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Well it isn't art but if you have some new kids that speak Spanish as often have this might come in handy! Delete the scoop?
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Angela Maiers is an education and technology consultant from Des Moines, Iowa who shares with us how two words can change a life. In the spirit of ideas wort...
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These two words are why I teach and why I collect and share all this on Scoopit. I add a few more critical words. We Matter, The Planet and Our All of Our Environments in Life Matter, and last but not least You and WE Can Make a Difference in the World. Delete the scoop?
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Awards for Exemplary Online Materials are presented to authors of peer-reviewed learning resources. The awards honor the authors and developers of these resources for their contributions to the academic community by conferring the MERLOT Classics Awards. Each Editorial Board selects an outstanding peer-reviewed learning material in its discipline to receive the Classics award according to program criteria. The Editors’ Council, composed of the editors of the Editorial Boards, further reviews the Classics awardees and selects among them the resource or resources they consider to be exemplary models for all disciplines. These resources receive the highest award of honor, the MERLOT Editors’ Choice award. The Editors’ Choice Award was curtailed in 2007 in order to provide more awards for the Application of MERLOT..
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I thought this sight was an interesting link to award winning learning materials so I decided to scoopit for future reference and thought maybe some of you might want to as well. This is a group that presents these awards so I'm sure they look at many learning materials. Delete the scoop?
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This is better than Pinterest for teachers and some other groups because it invloves creating group boards. Delete the scoop?
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Here is a free, portfolio collection style, web page making source that many will find helpful. Delete the scoop?
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The Tynker Learning Platform, which uses its own visual programming language, is focused on bringing better STEM education tools into classrooms Via Beth Dichter, Cath Parker
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This is another coding platform that is free for now. This is designed for children to learn to code. 
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April 18, 7:38 PM
Tynker is another new coding program designed for children that is free. Their philosophy is "that elementary school-aged children should understand the basics of how computers work and how they’re programmed." They have designed their own programming language which is "focused on bringing better STEM education tools into classrooms and is hence geared toward teachers." All the tools are free to use and include lesson plans and interactive tutorials as well as management tools. Projects are geared to student interests, such as buiding games, robots and creating comics. 
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April 21, 2:34 AM
The modular tools used for programming here look very similar to those developed by MIT for their programme, "Scatch". It am looking for award to trying Tynker out with my Year 2 students as they really enjoyed working with Scratch to create their own games. Delete the scoop?
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Free art lessons on drawing, painting and digital art. Over 225 video tutorials! Learn how to draw and paint online. Tutorials for beginners, intermediate artists, and advanced artists.
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Here are some free online art classes anyone can explore. 
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May 18, 12:08 PM
I'm going to leave this on this page even though I'm having trouble linking directly to things from this link. I think this site may have some good recommendations that folks could Google if the link provided doesn't work.
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Using the free version of Squad up to three people can collaborate on the creation of new code. They can chat in realtime to help each other work through challenging problems. A searchable chat record makes it easy to go back in time to see how a problem was worked out in the past.
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This looks like a way to get kids and others into writing code. According to those in the tech world we need a lot more creative individuals to get into writing code for even better online materials and connections. Delete the scoop?
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This is where you can link to see what is coming in the future when it comes to tech. Delete the scoop?
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In our creative writing time, I challenged them to use their learning to create sentences that were grammatically correct, yet did not make sense! Learners were provided sentences starters and asked to finish them; the final ...
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I thought this sounded like a fun creative project. You might even have them create a world or new language using this idea. Using what is known have learners dream up and create something unknown. You could use this idea with about any content area. What a creative way to kid people to think "out of the box". Delete the scoop?
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Today the world has lost one of its great minds. Paolo Soleri, architect, builder, artist, writer, theorist, husband, father, born on Summer Solstice, June 21, 1919, has died at age 93. Paolo Soleri spent a lifetime investigating how architecture, specifically the architecture of the city, could support the countless possibilities of human aspiration. The urban project he founded, Arcosanti, 65 miles north of Phoenix, was described by NEWSWEEK magazine as “…the most important urban experiment undertaken in our lifetimes.”
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Soleri was an amazing contrast in design from the usual American living styles. Here is a tribute to that amazing person. Delete the scoop?
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Excellent Ways to Use Videos in your Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning on Pedagogy, Education, Technology curated by Francesca Beltrami (Excellent Ways to Use Videos in your Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning...
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Here is a great graphic about the power of video in the classroom. Delete the scoop?
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This is just a review of some very good points to remember. Delete the scoop?
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How to go from Cood to Great talk given by Angela Maiers to a group of 5th graders. This not only introduces these learners consider how they present themselves in person but also online and that is critical today for "Great" people to have influence. This is also an example of one of many must needed lessons that don't fit into the focus on teaching exit exams. This lesson and many other critical lessons are not found in core text books or learning outcomes. Hopefully more teachers can find a way to work this type of lesson in without hurting the test scores. Delete the scoop?
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You can donate at 1-800-4JimmyV or www.jimmyv.org. Jimmy Valvano's 1993 ESPY Speech. "Don't give up . . . Don't ever give up."® The V Foundation for Cancer R...
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A coaches pep talk given by Jimmy Valvano as he fights cancer. Delete the scoop?
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Soo Meta allows you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. Yesterday, I learned that Soo Meta now allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Soo Meta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation.
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This looks like a strong tool for creating and sharing presentations to groups. Enjoy experimenting! Delete the scoop?
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This free tool will help with editing on line. See how it works by clicking on the title. Delete the scoop?
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A 10th Grader Explains How Social Media Can Replace Textbooks (RT @willrich45: "As a student, I want to feel like I’m in the 21st century, both in and out of the classroom." http://t.co/NkI3JV2lES...
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Great read! Right on target too! Written by a 10th grader!
Excerpt: Better than the outdated, limiting, and somewhat irrelevant resources that are textbooks. Better than pulling out the bolded words in textbooks and quizzing students on them the next day. Better than focusing solely on events that took place hundreds or thousands of years ago instead of learning about events taking place right now. Social media can transform a class from a traditional, cookie cutter, textbook-using class into an innovative, fascinating, and extremely relevant course. For example, a class that focuses on current events. Everyone deserves to understand what’s going on in the world. In school, why aren’t current events as important as events that took place hundreds of years ago? Moving beyond the textbook and utilizing resources like social media doesn’t mean we’re disregarding events of the past. It can mean the opposite. While learning about the Arab Spring, a class could analyze the history of tyrannical regimes of the Middle East in order to understand the events that took place in early 2011. Delete the scoop?
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