Love them or hate them, interactive games — in this case, one called Alien Contact! — have moved out of the living room and into the classroom. What Chris Dede wants to know is: What potential does this have for learning in the classroom? Surprisingly, although Dede’s official title is “professor in learning technologies” and he and his team created Alien Contact! as well as another program, River City, he isn’t determined to find a positive answer to that question.
Instructions for formatting and submitting the Qualifying Paper Proposal--a Harvard Grad School of Education foray into research.
When two researchers published a study a few years ago concluding that arts classes do not improve students’ overall academic performance, the backlash was bitter.
Flash-type presentation the intricacies of APA citation formatting.
Two different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
This interactive site presents diverse scholarship regarding race and pedagogy. The site is an academic resource intended to provide teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials.
One of the best history/social studies based museums I've ever seen. Great website with plenty of tools for teaching if you can't make it to Philly to check out the museum itself.
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources.
A small Amish boy witnesses a murder in Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. The ensuing events lead to a great deal of cultural exchange between the Amish community in Lancaster County, PA, and the police detective assigned to investigate the murder. This film provides a great exploration of cultural differences, especially considering recent events in the Pennsylvania Amish community.
Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny-candy connoisseur, and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colorful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a severely realistic mother, and an aunt who gives her love too freely--to men, and to a brother who will always be the favored child. Francie learns early the meaning of hunger and the value of a penny. She is her father's child--romantic and hungry for beauty. But she is her mother's child, too--deeply practical and in constant need of truth. Like the Tree of Heaven that grows out of cement or through cellar gratings, resourceful Francie struggles against all odds to survive and thrive.
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Love them or hate them, interactive games — in this case, one called Alien Contact! — have moved out of the living room and into the classroom. What Chris Dede wants to know is: What potential does this have for learning in the classroom? Surprisingly, although Dede’s official title is “professor in learning technologies” and he and his team created Alien Contact! as well as another program, River City, he isn’t determined to find a positive answer to that question.
When two researchers published a study a few years ago concluding that arts classes do not improve students’ overall academic performance, the backlash was bitter.
Two different, paid, Constitution and American Government-related summer programs for teachers. A great opportunity to gain some teaching skills in knowledge in a great city while also receiving money for your effort!
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