Sites of the Week
Open Library- Teachers and school librarians might be interested in this book website featuring 23,747,948 books (including 1,111,774 with full-text). Once you have located a book you can browse for purchase or find it at a library. Some are catalogued and some can be read online.
Watch Know - The Internet is full of useful information, but it's disorganized and often unreliable. This site is collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Many of the videos feature children sharing their knowledge.
Highlights Magazine - A great magazine has moved to the web and has many interesting games, puzzles, and activities for young children.
Pestworld for Kids - Here is a great site for youngsters interested in bugs. Checkout the video contest underway that can earn $3000 for your school!
Articles of Interest
Education Alone Can Not Save Our Economy by Anthony Cody in Teacher Magazine writes the following in his blog Living in Dialog:
Our goal should not be the degree at the end of college. Our goal is knowledge and the ability to do useful, creative and productive things in the world. The quality of education needs to be measured not by how well we get our students to score on tests, but on how capable they are at interacting powerfully with the real world. Are they able to do skillful work? Are they able to express themselves through writing, music and art? Can they invent solutions to the problems that have landed in their laps?Getting it Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn by Henry L. Roediger and Bridgig Finn in Scientific American Online debunks the myth of errorless learning. Research shows that learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors. Just remember how much you learned when you went over the test in class the next day.
