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Check out these important strategies for creating an inclusive learning space that also challenges students with rigorous thinking and projects. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Challenge... 
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Pushing students to go beyond what they think they can do is at the core of good teaching. Challenging tasks keep students engaged and curious to learn more, driving their learning to new depths.
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Pushing students to go beyond what they think they can do is at the core of good teaching. Challenging tasks keep students engaged and curious to learn more, driving their learning to new depths.
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Creating a safe recreation space for teens; protoyping a recyclable lunch tray; setting up a water delivery system to guard against urban fires; building a public awareness campaign to combat hunger. These are just a few of examples of the types of tasks students are taking on when they participate in the Design Learning Challenge, an effort to get students to figure out how to solve real-world problems in their communities.
Combining project-based learning, with an emphasis on the arts and design thinking, this academic competition now in its third year — a partnership between the Industrial Designers Society of America, or ISDA, and the National Art Education Association, or NAEA — has more than 750 students participating this year.
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This booklet highlights some of the many EU initiatives and co-funded research and innovation projects which address societal challenges through digital innovation, such as better healthcare, independent living for the elderly, delivering effective public services, energy saving, smart transport, secure internet, inclusion, preservation of cultural heritage.
A showcase of policy actions and projects illustrates what role ICT plays in addressing societal challenges and how ICT research and innovation result in very practical applications that help improving quality of life, push productivity and competitiveness and lead to new opportunities for EU citizens and businesses.
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A MUST download!!!
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Deutschland A heißt der Gewinner der EU-Naturwissenschaftsolympiade, die in diesem Jahr erstmals in Luxemburg ausgetragen wurde. Gastgeber Luxemburg gewann eine Silber- und eine Bronzemedaille.
Teilnehmer an der Olympiade waren die besten jungen Forscher aus den Ländern der Europäischen Union, die jünger als 17 Jahre alt sind. Insgesamt beteiligen sich 132 Schüler aus 22 europäischen Ländern an der Veranstaltung, die unter der Schirmherrschaft von Erbgroßherzog Guillaume stand. Begleitet wurden die Teilnehmer von 85 Betreuern.
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Teilnehmer an der Olympiade waren die besten jungen Forscher aus den Ländern der Europäischen Union, die jünger als 17 Jahre alt sind. Insgesamt beteiligen sich 132 Schüler aus 22 europäischen Ländern an der Veranstaltung, die unter der Schirmherrschaft von Erbgroßherzog Guillaume stand. Begleitet wurden die Teilnehmer von 85 Betreuern.
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Participate in the Safer Online Teen Challenge If you are age 13 through 18* then you probably do a lot online—schoolwork, texting, gaming, updating your wall, downloading music, and much more. You probably also know there are safety risks to being online. Do you want to learn how to stay safer online and also help educate others? Then the Safer Online Teen Challenge is for you! If you are up for it, follow these three steps. Step 1: Start with online safety advice from Microsoft, selecting a topic of interest. Step 2: Unleash your creativity in any (or all) of the five categories below, sharing your online safety voice with others. Stage a skit or presentationProduce a videoWrite a story or draw a cartoonCompose a songConduct a survey Step 3: You may submit an unlimited number of entries. We must receive all submissions no later than 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on April 12, 2013.
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Teachers help your students for a BETTER and more secure Internet! WE are ALL responsible of the future of Internet!
Some help here:
Check my cartoons 2 get an idea about what is possible ;)
- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/why-ict-security-why-the-need-to-secure-a-computer/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/not-only-rights-but-also-responsibility/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners?tag=Cartoons
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=comics...
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners?tag=Comics
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Let’s face it, the going is tough, and it will get tougher. We are living and working in a whole new world, workplace and marketplace where the challenges, changes and opportunities before us are unprecedented.
Our individual and collective ability to learn and re-learn new ways of thinking, doing and communicating that will draw upon our individual and collective abilities to develop solutions is critical.
And, our ability to enable solutions is a collaborative effort that will require leaders to build Communities of Purpose, constituencies of colleagues, employees, constituents and social networks that will learn to work together towards shared goals, values and objectives.
Read more, very interesting...: http://justcoachit.com/blog/2012/10/29/5-ways-to-lead-championing-the-challenge/
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Design student projects that hit the sweet spot -- relevant to real life, challenging enough to be interesting, and achievable for diverse learners. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Challenge...
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Design student projects that hit the sweet spot -- relevant to real life, challenging enough to be interesting, and achievable for diverse learners. Learn more: - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Challenge...
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Orderly leadership meetings are pathetic and useless. Head-nodding sessions are exercises in futility that waste resources, talent, and time. Cancel them and do something productive. The spirit of ...
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Nick Hester's curator insight,
December 31, 2013 5:02 AM
The inverse being Leaders who do not listen can not be challenged or informed in their decison making...
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At Sammamish High School, we're developing and implementing a comprehensive problem-based learning program for all of our students. Working closely with my peers during this process has become one of
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Collaboration with my peers has certainly pushed my thinking and my attachments to cherished methods. It has stretched me, allowed me to realize what I should hold onto and what I should let go. It's been tough, challenging -- but most of all, extremely satisfying. Gust MEES: I did this collaboration already 5 years ago on Google Knol and I have a very positive experience with it (OK, there were also bad moments...) and once found the right online friends it is a pleasure to publish together with them on the same Blog! This makes it possible to have different authors on a same blog, a multicultural publication is so possible! If YOU, dear readers, are interested to do so: WordPress makes it possible, especially with ANNOTUM THEME ===> http://www.scoop.it/t/wordpress-annotum-for-education-science-journal-publishing/?tag=Annotum
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Le Grand-Duché organisait pour la première fois l'Olympiade européenne des sciences naturelles cette semaine. Les lycéens luxembourgeois ont ramené une médaille de bronze et une d'argent.
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Tous les ans, cette conpétition européenne réuni les meilleurs jeunes scientifiques d’Europe de moins de 17 ans.Ils étaient ainsi 132 élèves en compétition du 18 au 23 mars. La cérémonie de remise des médailles s'est déroulée samedi en présence du Grand-Duc Héritier et du Premier ministre.
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Four leading UK universities for Computer Science are taking part in a code-breaking competition as part of Cyber Security Challenge UK 2013
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Very good idea and initiative... Looks like EUROPE is leading in Cyber-Security Education ;)
A Challenge for other countries to catch up ;)
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January 21, 2013 12:18 PM
Very good idea and initiative... Looks like EUROPE is leading in Cyber-Security Education ;)
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Calling all young people between the ages of 13 and 18*: Do you sing, act, write, or otherwise create? Get those creative juices flowing; put your “mad (artistic) skillz” to work, and help promote a positive message about life online.
Today, Microsoft is launching its first-ever Safer Online Teen Challenge. Teens are encouraged to submit creative works that champion one of many key messages ===> about being smarter and more secure on the Internet. <===
Works must be submitted by April 12, 2013, and our hundreds of thousands of thoughtful and learned Facebook fans will help select winners in five inspired categories: song, story/cartoon, skit/presentation, survey, and video.
===> BE SMART and START! ;) <===
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Share this, please, with your school and give your students the possibility to take part in a challenge! They love challenges as their creativity will get involved ;)
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Read more, a MUST:
Gust MEES's insight:
Teachers help your students for a BETTER and more secure Internet! WE are ALL responsible of the future of Internet!
Some help here:
Check my cartoons 2 get an idea about what is possible ;)
- https://gustmeesen.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/why-ict-security-why-the-need-to-secure-a-computer/
- https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/not-only-rights-but-also-responsibility/
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners?tag=Cartoons
Check out also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=comics...
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-tools-for-teaching-people-and-learners?tag=Comics
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Challenge-based learning (CBL) is similar to problem-based learning, but with CBL, students formulate the challenges they will address. Through a process of discussion and research, students identify a selection of questions that might be workable for their project, work on solutions, and publish those solutions online.
Link: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutChall/244525 Via juandoming
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Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Challenge...