Sunday, March 31, 2013
Gapminder.org
This website allows people to discover life expectancy and income of countries all over the world. You can easily compare countries from the past and/or present day. It is so much quicker to look up any year and check out the life expectancy and income on Gapminder.org rather than having to search over the internet.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
TED -- Salmon Khan
Salmon Kahn explains how people prefer to watch videos on educational tutorials rather than being taught in person. Putting yourself in someone's shoes, it makes sense because they can easily pause videos and re-watch them if they do not understand. Salmon posted some math tutorial videos on YouTube and people stumbled upon them. These videos are able to penetrate a classroom and home school students. KhanAcademy is an online math tutorial that allows students to solve problems that have the same concept. It starts out doing simple math problems like adding and subtracting single digit numbers. KhanAcademy is a scaffolding approach; whenever you show achievement in a certain concept, then the problems will gradually get harder.
I also like the fact that students can solve the problems however many times needed. KhanAcademy allows students to work on their own pace until they can grasp the concept. Every child learns at different paces and this site allows children to work on their own pace without skipping out on important steps they need to know.
I also like the fact that students can solve the problems however many times needed. KhanAcademy allows students to work on their own pace until they can grasp the concept. Every child learns at different paces and this site allows children to work on their own pace without skipping out on important steps they need to know.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
2 Education Articles
Sequestration cuts will shortchange students, universities say
Can President Obama be any worse of a President? I mean really. How do you fail to reach a deal for spending cuts? Schools have lost $4 Million dollars in 2013 and supposedly $8 million in 2014. Obama and his wife are too worried about publicity and taking over the world. It looks like communism and total control is all Obama wants. President Obama is a man that wants to put microchips in everybody's right hands to keep personal financial information as well as everything else. Without this chip no one will be able to sell or buy. In order to buy or sell anything your right hand will have to be scanned. It is the end of times as we know it and hardly anybody is noticing. I do not think our country has been in worse hands until now. So for all of you who voted for Obama be ready to have to cough up money for school and have everything you do tracked by the goverment.
K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents
This whole system is a load of bull. It is not fair to the parents or the students for the department of education to freely share social security numbers and addresses to "school officials". This is by far one of the stupidest things I have ever heard and I can not believe that the government is allowing this to happen. Since when did the US become a communist country? People need to open their eyes and see that the President and the government are wanting total control. Keeping complete track of somebody is creepy. No one needs to know such personal information except for the children and the child's family. This is not right and should banned. I will personally be homeschooling my children if it reaches the state of Mississippi because I will not allow my child(ren) to be tracked. It's okay to keep progress of a student's school records but does the government really need social security numbers, the child's output on school, and such personal information? This disgusts me.
Can President Obama be any worse of a President? I mean really. How do you fail to reach a deal for spending cuts? Schools have lost $4 Million dollars in 2013 and supposedly $8 million in 2014. Obama and his wife are too worried about publicity and taking over the world. It looks like communism and total control is all Obama wants. President Obama is a man that wants to put microchips in everybody's right hands to keep personal financial information as well as everything else. Without this chip no one will be able to sell or buy. In order to buy or sell anything your right hand will have to be scanned. It is the end of times as we know it and hardly anybody is noticing. I do not think our country has been in worse hands until now. So for all of you who voted for Obama be ready to have to cough up money for school and have everything you do tracked by the goverment.
K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents
This whole system is a load of bull. It is not fair to the parents or the students for the department of education to freely share social security numbers and addresses to "school officials". This is by far one of the stupidest things I have ever heard and I can not believe that the government is allowing this to happen. Since when did the US become a communist country? People need to open their eyes and see that the President and the government are wanting total control. Keeping complete track of somebody is creepy. No one needs to know such personal information except for the children and the child's family. This is not right and should banned. I will personally be homeschooling my children if it reaches the state of Mississippi because I will not allow my child(ren) to be tracked. It's okay to keep progress of a student's school records but does the government really need social security numbers, the child's output on school, and such personal information? This disgusts me.
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