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recent bookmarks from jmThis War of Mine to be added to school reading list in Poland2020-06-18T14:17:54+00:00
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-18-this-war-of-mine-will-be-added-to-polish-schools-reading-list
jmThis War of Mine, which was first released in 2014, drew on the experiences of the Bosnian people during the Siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s. It won widespread acclaim for its realistic portrayal of the human cost of war, and had sold more than 4.5 million units in April 2019.
The game will be included in the Polish reading list for the 2020/21 academic year, but will only be available to students aged 18 and above due to its age rating in the country. It will be recommended for those studying sociology, ethics, philosophy, and history, and will be available to students of those subjects for free.
]]>war history bosnia sarajevo games gaming poland schoolhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3ab29b1397a8/An evidence summary of Paediatric COVID-19 literature2020-05-13T11:04:00+00:00
https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/evidence-summary-paediatric-covid-19-literature/
jmcovid-19 epidemiology diseases transmission school kids childrenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:733073ab9918/What Parents Can Do When Bullying is Downplayed at School | Psychology Today2017-10-17T10:26:28+00:00
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/passive-aggressive-diaries/201203/what-parents-can-do-when-bullying-is-downplayed-school
jmDespite the "Bully-Free Zone" posters that line the school cafeteria walls and the Zero-Tolerance policy that was boasted about during last September's Back-to-School night, your experience is that the school would rather not address the problem at all. The responses you get from your child's teacher include bland lip service [...]
Good advice for this nasty situation -- I'm thankfully not facing it myself, but bookmarking just in case...]]>bullying kids school education psychology children parentinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:874619309743/Stiff Upper Lip by Alex Renton review – the damage boarding schools have done | Books | The Guardian2017-04-12T10:17:37+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/12/stiff-upper-lip-by-alex-renton-review?CMP=share_btn_tw
jmStiff Upper Lip is studded with startling stuff. Discussing the importance of football, for instance, in 19th-century public schools, he drops in the line that “in Charterhouse’s version a small boy was the ball”. I blithely went over that one, thinking he meant “a small boy was [expected to crouch on] the ball” or similar; but it was no typo. In a cheery kickabout on Good Friday, 1924, the Earl of Sussex’s son died from his injuries – _having been [used as] an actual football_.
(via Eva Wiseman)]]>football public-schools uk school history murder insanity charterhouse alex-renton educationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:96fe7e4ae0a7/SMC Education Blog — Girls and Their Frenemies2016-09-23T19:46:41+00:00
http://smceducationblog.tumblr.com/post/150629869120/girls-and-their-frenemies
jmkids friendship girls frenemies bullying schoolhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4434b13486c0/Sample letter to refuse permission for a child's data to be transferred into POD - Tuppenceworth.ie blog2016-06-15T11:10:40+00:00
http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2016/06/15/sample-letter-to-refuse-permission-for-a-childs-data-to-be-transferred-into-pod/
jmThe Department of Education has issued a new circular accepting it cannot defund the education of children whose parents do not want their kid’s data to be in POD [the privacy-infringing database of all Irish primary-school children]. They’ll only accept a written request as the basis of that refusal, however. So, here’s one you can use that meets the requirements. Send or give it to your school.
]]>pod privacy ireland children kids schoolhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:52cd80a2d55c/Primary Online Database: POD now (mostly) not compulsory (for now)2016-04-06T13:15:53+00:00
http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2015/08/31/primary-online-database-pod-now-mostly-not-compulsory-for-now/
jmEver since the introduction of the Primary Online Database of schoolchildren by the Department of Education, the Department and its Minister have been eager to point out that any parent who refused to allow a child’s data to be transferred would see that child’s education defunded.
Well, for all children other than this week’s crop of new Junior Infants, that threat has now collapsed. This is despite the Minister and her department having claimed that the drastic threat of defunding was because it simply wasn’t possible to give grants without a child’s full data being transferred. [...]
Oddly, as the prospect of defunding the education of 30% of the nation’s children in the run up to an election loomed large, the Department discovered it could, after all, pay for a child’s education without all its POD data.
]]>pod law ireland data-protection privacy children schoolhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6363fdb39066/A Teenager Gets Grilled By Her Dad About Why She’s Not That Into Coding2014-10-30T21:36:36+00:00
https://medium.com/matter/you-should-learn-to-code-is-the-new-you-should-go-to-law-school-talk-dads-love-to-have-b03bd22b3c99
jmculture tech coding girls women feminism teenagers school jay-rosen stemhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:09cddc52f7ff/How Videogames Like Minecraft Actually Help Kids Learn to Read | WIRED2014-10-10T09:31:32+00:00
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/video-game-literacy/
jm
I analyzed several chunks of The Ultimate Player's Guide using the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease scale, and they scored from grade 8 to grade 11. Yet in my neighborhood they're being devoured by kids in the early phases of elementary school. Games, it seems, can motivate kids to read—and to read way above their level. This is what Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered. She asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers (one 11th-grade student read at a 6th-grade level) to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read—some as difficult as first-year-college language. The kids devoured them with no help and nearly perfect accuracy.
How could they do this? “Because they're really, really motivated,” Steinkuehler tells me. It wasn't just that the students knew the domain well; there were plenty of unfamiliar words. But they persisted more because they cared about the task. “It's situated knowledge. They see a piece of language, a turn of phrase, and they figure it out.”
When my kids are playing Minecraft, there's a constant stream of "how do you spell X?" as they craft nametags for their pets. It's great!]]>minecraft gaming kids education spelling school reading literacyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f095d32769ff/Estonia introduces coding classes to 8-year-olds2012-09-05T09:01:53+00:00
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/
jmestonia education coding programming kids children students learning schoolhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e3c59fb70ac8/The day I tried teaching primary school kids to code (and succeeded)2012-03-20T13:02:42+00:00
http://www.martingsaunders.com/2012/02/teaching-primary-school-kids-to-code/
jmcoding education kids programming teaching schoolhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f8739b671a1b/