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American Parents Are Obsessed With Enrichment. Dutch Parents Think That’s Crazy. Why?

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New parenthood is a desperate search for certainty: When you start knowing nothing, you are desperate to know something. And when you finally figure that something out—how to get this creature to eat or sleep—that becomes the answer.

 

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:

This is a great juxtaposition of a few cultural norms in parenting.  It is interesting to compare my “water submersion” to others.

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Teacher Dashboard Explainer

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Learn the basic functions of Hapara’s Teacher Dashboard for Google Apps.  See Google Apps activity organized by class and student with a bird’s-eye view across Docs, Sites, Blogger, Picasa, Gmail and Google+Details | Video | Pricing

Thomas Adam Johnson‘s insight:
After looking through http://hapara.com and thinking about it, this new solution is still not as good as Edmodo and NetNewsWireapp, which are both free.
First, Edmodo allows for the organization of Google Docs by students for teachers through assignments, but also does not let other students see or edit the Google Docs of others.  http://hapara.com/ will still have this problem because the docs are still being saved into a communal folder.
Second, NetNewsWireapp shows a teacher which blogs have been read, whereas http://hapara.com/ does not as far as I can tell.Again, both of these other products are free.  What do you think?

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Be Very Afraid

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Each year a selection of ingenious students – from primary to university age – are invited along to BAFTA in London’s Piccadilly to show and talk about the extraordinary things they are doing with new technologies in their learning.

Guests attend by invitation: from the senior policy making echelons of the Whitehall Department of Education & Skills, and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; from BAFTA’s own membership of film and theatre arts luminaries; from other influential organisations.

During the day the students explain just what it is that they are doing. Each year is more ambitious; each year poses real questions for policymakers and parents as the ambitions of these 21st century learners, together with their ability to deliver on these ambitions, becomes apparent.

Although we limit the scale of these conversations and demonstrations on the day, they are captured annually as a DVD, a web-site, podcasts and as photographs so that many thousands around the world can enjoy the event and be inspired too.

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