A free app on the Common Core Standards! I’m so excited! My nerd is showing! (Discovered via @EduMajorProblems
Yes! A great resource for beginning to understand the content and expectations of the contributions from all teachers towards furthering these national standards for learning.
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As everyone begins settling into summer, all of us at the Crane Student Educators blog would love to start posting about different ideas, inspiring stories and interesting education prompts. Please take some time to submit ideas and questions, or to just discuss ideas. Not all submissions/ideas/conversations have to be published to the blog if you would rather ask communicate privately (thanks to the new revisions to tumblr!), but please keep all correspondence related to education/student teaching/music education/the arts and like subjects.
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positivelypersistentteach replied to your post: What do you think is the best way to deal with the increasing number of under 13s using social networks like Facebook?
u do know under 13’s aren’t technically allowed on such sites
This is a good point. Many of these sites do not allow 13 year olds, however many times children will simply state they are older than they are. It is surprisingly easy to find a way around most age restrictions on social networking sites and on the internet in general. It is still something to watch out for.
socialchildren asked: What do you think is the best way to deal with the increasing number of under 13s using social networks like Facebook?
I think this is a very interesting prompt. In regards to the safety of children/students using social networking sites at such a young age I think it is important that teachers (in classes such as technology/computer classes) and parents discuss the importance of privacy settings and how to establish them. Knowing that students don’t often listen to parents/teachers on subjects that deal with out of school issues it may be beneficial to have older students discuss their experience with privacy and social networking.
From a teacher standpoint it is very important to make sure that students cannot access private information about you via social networking sites. Therefore it is equally important for both students and teachers to use appropriate privacy settings to protect photos and other information that may be “revealing.” Many schools have strict rules according to student and teacher interaction. I think it is appropriate that teachers should avoid connecting with students via social networking until they have graduated high school/are out of the district.
Oh my goodness! This is simply fabulous. There are some questions on here that I have simply not thought about!! A lot of them are great jumping off points for lesson plans and I’m really excited to read through the entire list!!
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What makes this orchestra tick? Responsibility, commitment and drive they’ve got it all and much more. Is it playing Shostakovich that fuels these students’ drive to learn or is it something more?
Yet upon graduation they will enter a world that is unprecedentedly wide open and unstructured. Most of them will not quickly get married, buy a home and have kids, as previous generations did. Instead, they will confront amazingly diverse job markets, social landscapes and lifestyle niches. Most will spend a decade wandering from job to job and clique to clique, searching for a role.
No one would design a system of extreme supervision to prepare people for a decade of extreme openness. But this is exactly what has emerged in modern America.
On March 15th, the bus stopped by the Gibson Showroom in Austin TX and held two workshops with students from the Austin area. The students had exactly three hours to work together, recording a song and making a music video. This is the first of the two workshops, with students performing a cover of John Lennon’s track, “Instant Karma (Shine On).” - The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus
Additional Information about The John Lennon Bus Project :
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a non-profit 501(c)(3) state-of-the-art mobile audio and HD video recording and production facility. In its fourteenth year, with the very newest technology and gear, the Bus continues to be dedicated to providing young people with tours of the studios and participation in free songwriting and multimedia production workshops. With the assistance of three on-board engineers, students learn how to write, perform, record, and produce original songs, produce and shoot music
videos and documentaries and complete a broadcast quality music video — all in one day
The process that these students used to develop skills and to be successful in recording and reinterpreting a classic song is a beautiful illustration of educational strategies incorporating technology and culturally relevant content.
