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Idea: Cubeletes - New Robotics for 8+ Years

These are coming out soon.  US$160 for a six cube starter pack.  Bye-bye budget. But they are an interesting concept, and once the IP gets stolen by China, they will be $1.50 for ten.  The idea is great.  Multiple scenario ...

Page - Jake Riley - 01/09/2012 - 16:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Lesson: Look 30 Years into the Future by Looking Back to the Past When They Looked into the Future

... Post Office in the 1960s - A glance 30 years into the future from Dollis Hill Research Station I tell you ...

Page - Jake Riley - 04/02/2012 - 10:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Idea: After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses

... http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?pagewanted=all#h[]   ... in the book.  My last school's set was about ten years old and was incredibly useless whenever we had to research current ...

Page - Jake Riley - 03/21/2012 - 08:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

QOTW: What is the best free/low cost reward you have every used for positive reinforcement?

Let's make a list of free or low cost resources for teachers to use. ...

Jake Riley - 10/26/2010 - 13:06 - 9 comments - 1 attachment

Humor: 10 Teachers That Have Peeved Me Off

... something, despite you."  She should have retired years ago.  I hope she's not teaching anymore.   Mrs Sloan - she ... from grade 2, they had learnt absolutely nothing in four years.  If she taught anything at all it was only grade 3 work.  Half ...

Page - Jake Riley - 05/05/2012 - 16:08 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Idea: World Population Animation

... history/geography/civics students. In less than 250 years, we've grown like wildfire. Globaïa animation shows the veiny ...

Page - Jake Riley - 04/28/2012 - 10:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Blogging Too Far: The Consulting Years

... pedagogy and technology. I stayed for three years, helping about 48 schools, with 4 days a week with teachers in their ... children use the internet at school. It would be ten years later before one of my colleagues to twist their tongue the right way, ...

Page - Jake Riley - 09/11/2010 - 07:48 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Blogging Too Far: Current News - Bullying, Denail, Jail and the Potato Story

... use every day. Dharun, who is just 18, faces up to 10 years in jail.  Sentencing is on 21 May 2012, just a few weeks away.  Going to an adult jail for 10 years is not a good way to start your adult life.  It's serious stuff. ...

Page - Jake Riley - 05/02/2012 - 16:51 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Idea: New Synthetic DNA is Better and Stronger than Nature

... idea to think about, for both you and students.  Years ago I used to pose questions to teachers like "What are you going to do ... will be experimenting with humans sooner or later.  Years ago a scientist from some place claimed to have cloned the first ...

Page - Jake Riley - 04/27/2012 - 11:01 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Lesson: Mapping with YouTube

... World Battleground, 1000 years of war in 5 minutes   History of the ...

Page - Jake Riley - 11/18/2010 - 16:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

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