The important thing, boyd points out, is to give the kid the ability to handle choices, assess risks, and take what she calls “strategic” risks, or calculated risks. You want, in other words, to create the kid who can handle the Internet without you. And how can they become that kid if you are watching them all the time, if you are always hovering right there next to them? She says, “You don't just throw a 5-year-old out on the streets and tell her to figure it all out. The same is true online. But, equivalently, you can't expect to put under surveillance and control every action a child makes until she's 18 and then magically assume she'll be fine off at college when she hasn't had any experience managing her own decisions.”
The point, according to boyd, is not to create a safe world, but a safer world. Of course this is very fraught emotional territory, since it engages with the crucial and impossible fantasy that we can protect our children, that there is some way to seal them off from awful or painful or frightening things. Here I think of a line from one of boyd’s papers: “Our fears are amplified when they intersect with our insecurities and challenge our ability to be in control. Nowhere is this more palpable than when it comes a parent’s desire to protect their children.”

Grecolaborativo is a full-family collaboration, a couple creating with their young daughter and son. Our plush art and costumes, created under the name Lizette Greco, are based on the children's drawings and made using mostly thrifted and recycled materials. We also accept commissions for pieces using drawings from other children. Our aim is to create artwork that celebrates a child's perspective of the world and that will hopefully be passed from generation to generation.

For further information about our life in art, see our full profile. A more detailed explanation of how we work together can be found with the squids. We always have several projects brewing, and our family is very involved in the field of education — unschooling at home (one example) and through Rob's work at a progressive school. You can keep track of us with the following links:

Команда исследователей под руководством Йельского профессора биологии Вальтера Йетца запускает «Карту жизни» – онлайн-каталог, куда попадут все животные и растения на планете, пишет The Verge. Бета-версия уже включает в себя более 25 000 видов. С помощью приложения для браузера пользователи смогут находить растение или животное по названию – либо просто кликать на любое место на карте и видеть список тех, кто обитает в пределах заданного радиуса.

In sum, says Schleicher, “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.” Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But they’ll weaken your society in the long run unless they’re used to build schools and a culture of lifelong learning. “The thing that will keep you moving forward,” says Schleicher, is always “what you bring to the table yourself.”

Exploring the cell through gaming.

Play now at Kongregate.com, or head to our downloads page to get a free copy for your computer or your website.

Our forums now have open registration as well!  There has been some debate as to the game’s views on evolution and creation.  Please read our response and weigh in with your thoughts and opinions on the subject.  Thanks! 

The KT06 kit contains 6 Cubelets that can be snapped together to make a variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light and other objects, and have surprisingly lifelike behavior. But instead of programming that behavior, you snap the cubelets together and watch the behavior emerge like with a flock of birds or a swarm of bees.
Which cubelets are in the KT06 kit?
Action Blocks: 1 Drive, 1 Flashlight
Sense Blocks: 1 Brightness, 1 Distance
Think/Utility Blocks: 1 Battery, 1 Passive
The KT06 kit comes with batteries, but not with a charger.
Cubelets are designed for people age 8 and older.

Эта страничка для самых маленьких, но очень любознательных, пытливых, глазастых "почемучек", у которых в школе еще нет уроков физики, а может быть, они и в школу-то еще не ходят.

Кстати, эти анимированные "азы физики" интересны и взрослым, так что не стесняйтесь, присоединяйтесь!

Are you a print designer, photographer, fine-artist, or general creative person? Do you have a shitty website that you slapped together yourself in Dreamweaver in that ONE web design class that you took in college? Do you not have a site at all because you’ve been waiting two years for your cousin to put it together for you? Well, we’re here to help. We know that you have little to no desire to do web design professionally, but that doesn’t mean that you want an ugly cookie-cutter site or to settle for one that hasn't been updated since Hackers was in theaters. Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn how to take a basic wordpress blog and manipulate the css, html (and even some php!) to match your aesthetic. You’ll feel empowered rather than crippled by the internet and worst case scenario you’ll at least end up having a better idea of how professional web designers turn your design dreams into a reality on screen.

МИТ анонсировал бесплатное онлайн обучение c весны 2012года - MITx. Будет выдаваться неофициальный сертификат.

И еще один хороший источник лекций Khan Academy
2700 видео-уроков (англ.)
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Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur and has been a founder or early employee at 8 startups, including 4 resulting in successful IPOs. For the past 7 years he's been teaching entrepreneurship to Stanford Engineering students. He's been awarded a Stanford Undergraduate teaching award, and the San Jose mercury news has called him one of the 10 influencers in Silicon Valley.

This course is designed to give people new to the business analyst role or those who supervise business analysts a basic understanding of the functions and business impact of this role. The course provides a special focus on business analysis functions as they relate to the development of information technology solutions and the business analysis project life cycle. Course topics include the role of the business analyst, gathering and documenting user requirements, modeling the business, business case analysis, process modeling, quality management and testing.

Free Marketing Magazines: / Free College Type Courses and/or Certifications: 6 Week Course in Branding by About.com
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“Parent involvement can take many forms, but only a few of them relate to higher student performance. Of those that work, parental actions that support children’s learning at home are most likely to have an impact on academic achievement at school.

“Monitoring homework; making sure children get to school; rewarding their efforts and talking up the idea of going to college. These parent actions are linked to better attendance, grades, test scores, and preparation for college,” Barth wrote. “The study found that getting parents involved with their children’s learning at home is a more powerful driver of achievement than parents attending P.T.A. and school board meetings, volunteering in classrooms, participating in fund-raising, and showing up at back-to-school nights.”

In this course, you will learn how to design technologies that bring people joy, rather than frustration. You'll learn several technique for rapidly prototyping and evaluating multiple interface alternatives — and why rapid prototyping and comparative evaluation are essential to excellent interaction design. You'll learn how to conduct fieldwork with people to help you get design ideas. How to make paper prototypes and low-fidelity mock-ups that are interactive -- and how to use these designs to get feedback from other stakeholders like your teammates, clients, and users. You'll learn principles of visual design so that you can effectively organize and present information with your interfaces. You'll learn principles of perception and cognition that inform effective interaction design. And you'll learn how to perform and analyze controlled experiments online. In many cases, we'll use Web design as the anchoring domain. A lot of the examples will come from the Web, and we'll talk just a bit about Web technologies in particular. When we do so, it will be to support the main goal of this course, which is helping you build human-centered design skills, so that you have the principles and methods to create excellent interfaces with any technology.

Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.

When Annie Leonard and her friends at Free Range Studios set out in 2007 to share what she’d learned about the way we make, use and throw away Stuff, they thought 50,000 views would be a good result for her ‘20-minute cartoon about trash.’ Today, with over 15 million views and counting, The Story of Stuff is one of the most watched environmental-themed online movies of all time.
Annie founded the non-profit Story of Stuff Project in 2008 to respond to tens of thousands of viewer requests for more information and ways to get involved. We create short, easily shareable online movies that explore some of the key features of our relationship with Stuff—including how we can make things better; we provide high quality educational resources and programs to everyone from teachers and people of faith to business and community leaders; and we support the learning and action of the over 250,000 members of the Story of Stuff community.
The Story of Stuff Project is proud to be fiscally sponsored by San Francisco’s Tides Center. We are supported by grants from private and public foundations, revenue from speaking appearances and DVD and book sales, and contributions from people like you.
Please help us keep our films and other content free by making a secure, tax-deductible on-line contribution today.

Высокоразвитая способность к визуализации.
Развитие многочисленных связей между сенсорными системами.
Использование множественных перспектив.
Высокоразвитая способность к переходу между позициями восприятия.
Способность перемещаться между различными уровнями мышления к укрупнению и разукрупнению.
Петля обратной связи между абстрактным и конкретным.
Создание внутренних моделей, которые работают сами по себе, без сознательного контроля.
Развитие особых состояний для получения доступа к бессознательным процессам.
Включение в процесс творчества шанса случайного открытия.
Баланс функций мечтания, действия и рефлексии.
Способность задавать базовые вопросы и действовать, исходя из рамки обратной связи в противоположность неудаче.
Использование метафор и аналогий.
Использование моделей для приближенного отражения реальности.
Ознакомление с необходимой информацией через самообучение.
Использование динамических моделей, включающих в себя три интерактивных элемента.
Использование системного мышления.
Фокусировка на Глубинной Структуре в противоположность Поверхностной Структуре.
Создание карт идей в виде некоторой внешней формальной системы репрезентации.
Гармонизация новых идей с существующими знаниями.
Наличие Миссии за индивидуальной идентичностью.

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From the fine folks at the Open University comes 60-Second Adventures in Thought, a fascinating and delightfully animated series exploring six famous thought experiments.

Уникальные съемки: тайна рождения - фоторепортаж из женского тела
Шведский фотограф Леннарт Нильсон сделал свои первые уникальные фотографии еще в 1965 году. Десять лет жизни без всякого сожаления он потратил на то, чтобы снять на пленку эволюцию эмбриона от зачатия до рождения.

If the future workforce continues to be trained for the past, particularly as other countries look ahead, Americans will no longer be globally competitive as the domestic economy and infrastructure continue to collapse. // Since 2007, the directors of this project have been collaborating on the development of imagination as the driving force behind this shift. The research and field work covered in this project began in January 2009. Rather than publishing results as a book or white paper, both of which are one-sided approaches to a subject that demands a conversation, an interactive site was chosen as the format. // This site doesn’t just present theories and ideas, but rather actionable solutions that can be immediately and easily implemented in service of a relevant education for American students who need to gain proficiency if not mastery of core subject areas while at the same time being prepared for the reality of future work.

We share and transmit a lot of personal information online. This is especially true for students, who not only use academic online tools that require personal information, but who are also incredibly active social network users. Whether a ninth grader, college senior or parent, these privacy tips can help you and your family stay safe this school year.

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The evolution of education, particularly as filtered through the prism of emerging technology and new media, is something we’re keenly interested in and something of increasing importance to society at large. Now, from authors Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown comes a powerful and refreshing effort to approach the subject with equal parts insight, imagination and optimism, rather than the techno-dystopian views today’s cultural pundits tend to throw our way.

Welcome to the Visual Dictionary
Online, the dictionary with a new
point of view.
A quick glance at the index is all it takes to
connect words with images.
Explore the 15 major themes to access
more than 6,000 images and see words
like never before.

TimeTree is a public knowledge-base for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. A search utility allows exploration of the thousands of divergence times among organisms in the published literature. A tree-based (hierarchical) system is used to identify all published molecular time estimates bearing on the divergence of two chosen taxa, such as species, compute summary statistics, and present the results. Names of two taxa to be compared are entered in the search window and the results are presented on a separate page. Alternatively the last name of an author is entered to find divergence times published by that person. For those interested in published summaries of relationships and divergence times of major groups of organisms (family level and above), see the authoritative synthesis The Timetree of Life.

Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. // The patterns that appear in the book and their respective authors are listed below. In addition to the 136 patterns, the book includes several chapters that discuss the motivation, theory, development and use of the patterns and the pattern language. // Theory // Organizing Principles //
Enabling Systems // Policy // Collaboration //
Community and Organizational Building // Self Representation //
Projects // Tactics

Astronomy / Atmosphere / Biosphere / Color and Vision / Electricity / Three common misconceptions about electric circuits are shown below. / Energy / Forces and Motion / Forces and Fluids / Heat and Temperature / Light / Lithosphere / Magnets and Magnetism / Properties of Matter / Measurement / Sound / Space / Work and Power

"Юный техник" научно-популярный журнал для юношества, отметивший в 2006 году свое пятидесятилетие, знаком читателм многих поколений.
"ЮТ" традиционно предлагает читателям рассказы о самых свежих научных открытиях и изобретениях, новинках техники. Наряду с именитыми писателями-фантастами на страницах журнала выступали и выступают с первыми своими рассказами и его читатели.
При журнале более тридцати лет работает уникальное Патентное бюро, где обсуждаются предложения юных изобретателей. Лучшие из них получают Авторские свидетельства журнала, помощь при оформлении "взрослых" патентов. Огромное количество электронных схем, самоделки, от простых игрушек, до весьма сложных, для дома, спорта, отдыха.
"Игры со всего света", "Вести с пяти материков", "Заочная школа радиоэлектроники"... И разумеется то, ради чего большинство из нас ожидало ЮТ с особым нетерпением - Фантастика! [via friendfeed]

мир — это сборище иррациональных и аморальных оппортунистов, и объясняет, как выжить в таком мире. / почему каждый человек обязан ходить на дуэли, давать взятки гаишникам и не торговаться в супермаркетах. / что такое трансакционные издержки и насколько пагубно они могут влиять на государственную иерархию, судебную систему и ваши личные взаимоотношения с прачечной. / об экономических преимуществах стояния в очереди и объясняет, как колючая проволока может существенно увеличить стоимость окруженной ею земли. / чем друг от друга отличаются разные виды собственности на примерах платяного шкафа, бангладешской промышленности и яблок, растущих на Воробьевых горах. / в чем преимущества режима частной собственности, в чем недостатки режима государственной собственности и почему, тем не менее, людям придется жить и с тем, и с другим. / о красном склерозе, проблеме халявщика, отрицательных селективных стимулах и других общественно-экономических расстройствах.

Hands-on activities, online exhibits, articles, videos, and more

How do I select books for my children to read (they are 6 and 8 years old)? // Think of selecting books at these ages according to how they might be used: Read-Alouds; Read-Withs; Read-Alones // A read-aloud book is one that you read to your child at special times — like bedtime or in a comfy chair on a rainy afternoon. These books should always be well above your child's independent reading level because you are the one in control of the reading. // A "read with" book is one that you and your child read together. Now, however, the primary control of the book is in your child's hands, as for the most part, your child will be the one reading aloud. These books should be generally at or slightly above your child's independent reading level. // A read alone book is just that — a book that your child selects and then reads on her own, perhaps at night after spending earlier time with a read-aloud.

Smarthistory.org is an open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. We use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art.

Seeing The Art In Cartography

Timelines: sources from history is a new interactive resource that allows students and teachers to explore 800 years of collection items from the British Library chronologically. Highlights of the timeline include:

* Manuscripts by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mozart, Beethoven, Wordsworth, Florence Nightingale and Dickens
* Original records from the Black Death and the Great Fire to the French Revolution and the abolition of the slave trade
* The first printed book of the western world, the first cookery manuscript, the first English bible and the first postage stamp
* Posters, advertisements and illustrations documenting everything from public executions and magic shows to plague cures and séances

Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition Website Olympus America Inc. is in the seventh year of sponsoring a dynamic international photo competition that honors the world's most extraordinary microscope images of life science subjects.

CELL SIZE AND SCALE [via neuraum]

1 nationalgeographic.com 2 www.nasa.gov 3 howstuffworks.com 4 discovery.com 5 smithsonianmag.com 6 bbc.co.uk/nature 7 ted.com 8 arkive.org 9 historytoday.com 10 pbs.org

NASA Images was created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, to bring public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource.
The site contains everything from classic photos to educational programming and HD video, and is growing all the time as we continue to gain both new and archived media from all of NASA's centers.

Этимология и история слов русского языка [via friendfeed]

Documentary Heaven was set up early July 2009 to provide the public with a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre out there. We intend on continuously updating the site on a daily basis to bring you nothing but the very best. [via Alex Moskalyuk]

Начно-популярные видеоролики от ЦентрНаучфильма и других.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: * Promote international and intercultural understanding; * Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; * Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences; * Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve 20 million visitors a year. That makes us one of the most visited museum Web sites in the world.

The goal of this course is to expose students to visualization methods and techniques that increase the understanding of complex data. The course will cover how the human visual system processes and perceives images, good design practices for visualization, tools for visualization of data from a variety of fields, and programming of interactive visualization systems. The course is targeted both towards students interested in using visualization in their own work, and students interested in building better visualization tools and systems.

You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet. For example, there are plenty of pages that solemnly tell you flamingoes bend their knees backwards. In fact, all birds have forward-facing knees: the knee is up in their feathers, the ankle is the bit that goes backwards, their foot bones are fused together, and birds walk on their toes. This is because birds are dinosaurs: T. rex walked the same way, but his foot bones weren’t fused yet. Isn’t the real story usually more interesting? [для чистоты надо было бы вставить один ошибочный факт]

Docstoc is the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform for users and businesses to upload and share their documents with all the world, and serves as a vast repository of documents in variety of categories including legal, business, financial, technology, educational, and creative. All documents on docstoc can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.

These are illustrations, infographics & diagrams designed to engage, entertain, and educate.

To introduce our guide to the best children's books, author Michael Morpurgo sets out the case for reading pleasure

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.
As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.

Entrepreneurship Corner (ECorner) is a Stanford University collection of online resources for teaching and learning entrepreneurship. The mission of the project is to enhance the teaching of high-growth entrepreneurship and technology innovation. The site has been developed by a broad team of educators, entrepreneurs, engineers, and designers at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP). The project has been financially supported by Stanford University and a number of generous sponsors.

Feeling Entrepreneurial? Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar is a weekly speaker series that brings innovation leaders from the fields of business, finance, technology, education, and philanthropy, to share their insights with aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world. ((ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. The seminar is free and open to public. It also functions as a class called Management Science and Engineering 472. ETL takes place every Wednesday 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM in Skilling Auditorium, Stanford University. Each quarter, the sessions are available to watch online via the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD). Once the quarter is complete, the files are removed from the server

раздел Education с заманчивым названием 'thinking through art" .

Visual Understanding in Education (VUE) conducts educational research focused on aesthetic and cognitive development that results from interaction with art. Based on its findings, VUE develops programs for schools and museums, principally Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). VUE is not-for-profit and primarily supported by grants.

What is VTS? Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) uses art to foster kids’ capacities to observe, think, listen and communicate.
VTS asks students to • Look carefully at works of art • Talk about what they observe
• Back up their ideas with evidence • Listen to and consider the views of others • Discuss many possible interpretations

Boolify makes it easier to for students to understand their web search by illustrating the logic of their search, and by showing them how each change to their search instantly changes their results. It's simple, immediate and easy and flexible to use with your class, no matter the subject matter. Search results are presented through Google's "Safe Search STRICT" technology. However, no filtering technology is 100% secure, as this blog posting astutely points out.

British reporter Riz Khan put together a nice 20 minute interview last week with Sir Ken Robinson, our favorite creativity and education expert (and famous TED presenter). Even if you've seen Sir Ken's 2006 TED presentation, you'll find this interview an entertaining and thought-provoking refresher. Rizwan Khan is a veteran of the BBC and CNN; he currently hosts the Riz Khan Show on Al Jazeera English.

Argosy's Visible Body is the most comprehensive
human anatomy visualization tool available today.
This entirely Web-delivered application offers an
unparalleled understanding of human anatomy.
The Visible Body includes 3D models of over 1,700
anatomical structures, including all major organs
and systems of the human body.

Art Science Research Laboratory (ASRL), a New York based, not-for-profit organization, is committed to the creation of intellectual environment and advocacy of interdisciplinary study, encompassing the areas of research, collections and publishing.

So what are the top skills that should be taught to every man, woman, and child who enters our education system? I’m glad you asked…

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

ten qualities in people that come from a well-composed liberal arts education:

In this post, I’ll go through a few considerations when you’re reviewing the course content and give you some ideas on how to weed out the unnecessary data.

These seven things plus others - which I will go into greater detail with later - are the attitudes that contribute if not lead into genius… and they’re so very ignored by schools and society in general!

Three Main Effects of Grading

Scanning tasks are those where you stay up-to-speed on a topic.

Hint: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in life

nnovate is an open access, bimonthly, peer-reviewed online periodical (ISSN 1552-3233) published by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University.

If work isn't what it used to be, it's also not what it will become.

Logical, linear, analytic thinking remains indispensable. But it's no longer enough.

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

Why does it seem so difficult to differentiate between three basic theories of learning? Why do the names of theorists appear connected to more than one theory? Why do the terms and strategies of each theory overlap?

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning.