Hi Barbara & Co.: Thank you for making yourselves so accessible. Our school has a new interactive whiteboard, but I can’t find suitable sites with substantive material for the Elementary grades with which I can use this tool. Any suggestions? Thanks.Patsy Dear Patsy, Searching for “whiteboard lessons” in Google, I found the following sites:http://www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/http://www.theedventuregroup.org/21stcentury/whiteboards.html There… [Continue]
Math Clock for Math Geeks
When I saw this clock, I just had to write about it. How cute would this math clock be in a classroom? l love it. You can get it at ThinkGeek.com for under $30. What time is it? Half past the square root of 64!
Paying Kids to Show Up at School?
I’ve seen a bit of criticism of Michelle Rhee’s shake-up of the Washington D.C. school district, which includes a program co-sponsored by Harvard that pays middle-school students up to $100 for meeting attendance and performance goals. But with her exemplary background in public management (with a master’s degree in public policy from Kennedy School of… [Continue]
Kids Spend More Time Online, Less Time Watching TV
For kids ages 10 to 14 who are online, the Internet is a bigger time sink that TV. This is not surprising, but was recently released in a study by Google’s DoubleClick Performics. I think most parents probably already knew this. For example, my high-school student watches about 2 hours of television per week, usually… [Continue]
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