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It hardly seems right to refer to this as ‘origami.’
It’s more like: EXTREME PAPER FOLDING!
” Russian school teacher Sergei Tarasov diligently set his efforts into cloning the architectural design staple of Moscow, using more than 10,000 sheets of A4 paper. For nearly a year, when the 42-year-old art teacher was not in the classroom, he spent most of his time mastering the art of origami and, one could assume, the beneficial skill of patience to produce the remarkable replica.”
Look at this!
Will the successfully funded Kickstarter project, “OUYA” revolutionize gaming?
Or will it fall in the footsteps of the 3D0 and Atari Jaguar?
Check this out:
This infographic really caught my eye, as I’ve read about many untraditional educational techniques, including the use of video games.
I have a firm belief that learning can be fun, and in fact, the best way to learn is to have fun. I am constantly appalled when I hear about students who are ‘punished’ for bad behavior by having extra homework assigned.
It’s as if they teacher is saying,
“Shame on you! Now you must learn something …”
I also believe that everyone learns in different ways and I’m certainly not throwing all my educational eggs into the video games learning basket, but it is certainly a piece of technology and medium that should not be overlooked or have educators turn their noses up at.
Take a looksy at the infographic, below, and tell me what you think!
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My daughter went overseas to teach ESL in Taiwan. She’d been there only a week or so when one day, in a matter of moments, she lost her operating system and every speck of data (it’s a PC, not a MAC, for those interested in such details). That’s a heart-churner in the best of circumstances, but even harder when you are in a place where there is no English-speaker in sight, your class plans are on that machine, and another day facing students starts in a few hours. [Read more…] about Dropbox Saves the Day!
Last month Mashable posted an article titled The Top 5 Things Parents Should Never Do On Facebook. I know for a fact that Mashable’s target audience is not overly concerned parents of teenagers, but I have to admit that the article was so poorly written, I would not print a single point that they wrote to help parents with their children’s online social media experience.
Some of it was just plan stupid and other parts of it was poorly written.
Regardless of why I would not use it, I thought the idea was good enough to attempt to rework it and promote it for pastors, senior and youth oriented, to hand out to parents in their congregations.
Print off this article, share it, or save it to a PDF to email it. I don’t care the medium it gets transmitted, just get this into the hands of parents.
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If making a Tetris pumpkin wasn’t cool enough, this one is inetractive.
You control it with the stem!
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