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I like the Education Policy Blog. This week they have a post: OLPC skepticism/hope that spends a lot of time linking up all the OLPC strands from an Education Policy perspective. Lots of linky goodness in there.

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

People wonder why I encourage educators to get into Second Life and other VWs for adults… they need to know what children will experience and that are coming down the pipe.

Virtual Worlds News: MTV/Nickelodeon to Invest $100M in Casual Gaming, Changes for Nicktropolis, ( Read more... )

I am a big big fan of unstructured play, and this report speaks to the importance of unstructured play in terms of physical activity. Is over-programming a problem in child development?

CFLRI - Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute:
most children and youth are far below the desired levels of activity associated with having a healthy ( Read more... )

We’re studying children as photographers in (c)cld419, and one of my students pointed me to this show that takes up many of the issues we’re interested in; seeing the world from the child’s perspective.

My Life As a Child Premieres February 26 at 7/6c

My Life As a Child documents the lives of 20 American children, between the ages of 7 and 11. ( Read more... )

I’m interested in the metaphor of “The fridge magnet” and what it says about how children and parents share information, sticking art and notices on the fridge door, AND what draws us to the fridge in terms of food choices and nutrition. I think that ECE, in taking a more age appropriate child-centered approach, can help rethink child’s nutrition ( Read more... )

The Julie Amero in All of Us talks about the case of Julie Amero, the substitute teacher who was found guilty of child endangerment because her students saw a flood of adult-oriented popup ads flood her computer screen. And the news coverage is causing a lot of educators to say to themselves in horror: It could have been me.” [see also: Julie ( Read more... )

AppleInsider | Apple’s Jobs blasts teachers unions

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs lashed out at teachers unions during an education reform conference on friday, claiming that no amount of technology in the classroom would better public schools until principals had authorization to fire bad teachers….

Jobs said the problem with U.S. institutions ( Read more... )

Professor Woj (the great mentor of my undergraduate years) pointed me to the BBC News article Why are Dutch children so happy? in response to the UNICEF report. Interesting read, and it just makes sense… parents, you reading this!!!

CLD 415 Concept Development in Science: “This course helps future teachers learn the science concepts and skills that children need to acquire by undertaking group projects. Students learn what it means to think scientifically, how to continue to learn science, and how to encourage children to do so. They use the Ontario science curriculum (with a ( Read more... )

Slashdot | One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released

“The One Laptop Per Child project has released information about its advanced security platform called Bitfrost. Could children with a $100 laptop end up with a better security infrastructure than executives using $5000 laptops powered by Vista? ‘What’s deeply troubling - almost unbelievable ( Read more... )