1. Notes: 20 / 2 days ago  from starsinpisces

    This is genius. I want to do this in my classroom. End.

    starsinpisces:

    The ClassRealm system is based on role playing games such as Pokémon, Final Fantasy, and even some classic table-top rulesets such as Dungeons & Dragons. Students can level up, gain achievements and even fight off enemies with their knowledge and good deeds. These gaming ideals come from years and years of video game influence. The ClassRealm team wants to bring as many gaming aspects to the system as possible, while still keeping the core educational values.

    ClassRealm’s focus is showing students a path to content mastery as well as proving that learning can be an exciting journey for everyone involved. We encourage and reward students to do work they may normally find unrewarding or pointless. ClassRealm is also a way to tap into children’s creativity and harness their desire to have fun and learn at their own pace. We leverage this to encourage them to master their classroom content.

    Education is an ever evolving system and it has changed rapidly with the influx of technology and social standards over the years. One of the key features of ClassRealm is that we are building it to adapt to any and every classroom, no matter the setting or current year. Curriculum, standards, and teaching styles are altered constantly, and ClassRealm will follow suit.

    ClassRealm is a take on a classroom management system using role playing video games as a formula. The creator tested it out in his own sixth grade classroom. 

    Check out the article that started it all.

    Check out their Kickstarter page as they aim to create a system for teachers to use. 

    In simplest terms ClassRealm is planned to be a customizable web-based tool that can be used by teachers, students and parents to track student achievements, provide students with entertaining and educational adventures, as well as improve their overall academic performance. 

  2. Notes: 3595 / 2 days ago  from approachingsignificance
    This is sad. approachingsignificance: Childhood Stress Leaves Genetic Scars Traumatic experiences in early life can leave emotional scars. But a new study suggests that violence in childhood may leave a genetic mark as well. Researchers have found that children who are physically abused and bullied tend to have shorter telomeres—structures at the tips of chromosomes whose shrinkage has been linked to aging and disease. “Children who experience physical violence appear to be aging at a faster rate,” says neuroscientist and co-author Avshalom Caspi. As a result, he says, they may face increased risk of disease in adulthood and possibly shortened lifespan. The more we research and understand stress, the more we learn about its complex nature and implications on our health, both mentally and physically. Expect a lot more of this research in the near future.

    This is sad.

    approachingsignificance:

    Childhood Stress Leaves Genetic Scars

    Traumatic experiences in early life can leave emotional scars. But a new study suggests that violence in childhood may leave a genetic mark as well. Researchers have found that children who are physically abused and bullied tend to have shorter telomeres—structures at the tips of chromosomes whose shrinkage has been linked to aging and disease.

    “Children who experience physical violence appear to be aging at a faster rate,” says neuroscientist and co-author Avshalom Caspi. As a result, he says, they may face increased risk of disease in adulthood and possibly shortened lifespan.

    The more we research and understand stress, the more we learn about its complex nature and implications on our health, both mentally and physically. Expect a lot more of this research in the near future.

     
  3. Notes: 4506 / 3 days ago  from booklover (originally from cinderellainrubbershoes)
    How do you interact with books? Even if you know nothing of Phenomonology, the author of this graphic has just begun to teach you! The fringes of the theory explore the inner dialogue between the reader and the writer’s consciousness and how they intertwine; of course this version has an excellent time-travel angle. via cinderellainrubbershoes

    How do you interact with books?

    Even if you know nothing of Phenomonology, the author of this graphic has just begun to teach you! The fringes of the theory explore the inner dialogue between the reader and the writer’s consciousness and how they intertwine; of course this version has an excellent time-travel angle.

    via cinderellainrubbershoes

     
  4. Notes: 36 / 6 days ago  from lessonsfromabroad
    Lessons from Abroad: Singapore's "holistic education"

    I’d like to add in, from my experience abroad, that every situation is different. I wouldn’t say this one case would accurately represent all of Singapore even.

    lessonsfromabroad:

    Singapore, often one of the top-performing countries on international assessments, is moving away from memorizing facts to an emphasis on creativity in learning, reports the BBC.

    So what does this look like? For one of the country’s top schools, it meant taking a “learning journey” through a…

  5. Notes: 1 / 1 week ago 
    I just learned the other day that all online dictionaries are not equal for a specific reason. Some are made for language learning and some are used for “for homework, projects & random word references”. Can you tell which is which? (By the way, I chose this word because it doesn’t exist in Japanese. Believe me, I’ve been looking and asking people all to no avail.) Pictures and quote courtesy of Cambridge Dictionaries Online and Dictionary.com.

    I just learned the other day that all online dictionaries are not equal for a specific reason.

    Some are made for language learning and some are used for “for homework, projects & random word references”.

    Can you tell which is which? (By the way, I chose this word because it doesn’t exist in Japanese. Believe me, I’ve been looking and asking people all to no avail.)

    Pictures and quote courtesy of Cambridge Dictionaries Online and Dictionary.com.

     
  6. Notes: 184 / 1 week ago  from englishteachingtoolbox (originally from classroomcollective)
    This is a really cool and simple classroom community building activity.  _______________________________________________________________classroomcollective: First day project: Friend Tree. Everyone puts their thumb print on the tree then teacher later frames it and hangs it as a reminder that we are all friends.

    This is a really cool and simple classroom community building activity. 

    _______________________________________________________________

    classroomcollective    :

    First day project: Friend Tree. Everyone puts their thumb print on the tree then teacher later frames it and hangs it as a reminder that we are all friends.

     
  7. Notes: 53 / 1 week ago  from mrskaaay (originally from revolutionizeed)
    Using zombies to teach kids geography

    Social studies teacher David Hunter has developed a curriculum in which students must learn geographic concepts to survive a zombie apocalypse. Hunter designed the proposed curriculum for fifth- to eighth-grade students and said he is trying to raise funds that would allow him to eventually offer the curriculum to teachers as a free digital download. “Remember you can either feed your brain or feed your brain to the zombies,” Hunter said.

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    This is what I want to see!

    There’s nothing quite like incorporating solid, relevant, tightly-knit role-play fantasy or sci-fi situations into instruction.

    (Source: revolutionizeed)

  8. Notes: 9 / 1 week ago 
    Hahaha… This is so ridiculously American! This child must have aced this assignment. <3 Photo courtesy of WeAreTeachers pinterest account.

    Hahaha… This is so ridiculously American! This child must have aced this assignment. <3

    Photo courtesy of WeAreTeachers pinterest account.

    (Source: pinterest.com)

     
  9. Notes: 4 / 1 week ago 

    Teenagers, seriously, I don’t get them anymore

    So recently I’ve lost it. I can’t get my students at all. I used to think I had a good grip on the adolescent experience….

    You see, I’m trying to figure out what interests Japanese teenagers, so that I can use it to my benefit in trying to incite interest of the English speaking world.

    So really, what topics interest kids who are 13-15 years old?

  10. Notes: 33 / 2 weeks ago  from jbizzle329
    Nothing like a good ol&#8217; parody on a children&#8217;s classic. jbizzle329: I guess this is the next generation “Good Night Moon”.

    Nothing like a good ol’ parody on a children’s classic.

    jbizzle329:

    I guess this is the next generation “Good Night Moon”.

     
  11. Notes: 351 / 2 weeks ago  from twisted-reverie (originally from xzxcuzx-me)
    "If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done."
    - The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother (via xzxcuzx-me)
  12. Notes: 12 / 2 weeks ago  from thinkingoutsidethelines

    If human flourishing isn’t a mechanical process, then what is it?

    (Source: thinkingoutsidethelines)

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