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Amazon Books #growingupwithoutafather #singleparents #fatherlessness Discovering the Missing Piece of His Life Author Patrick Davy "The Bitter Sweet Search For a Father" Amazon Books: Thirty-eight-year-old Pete Mitchell declares to his sons how fortunate they are to grow up with their father. He reveals to his first and third-grade boys that he does not know his dad. He seeks the help of Nigel, his cousin, to find the man who shares the responsibility of his coming into the world. His father left the Caribbean community where he grew up before Pete was born. In his attempts to locate his father, Pete realizes that cooperation from Nigel and other family members is hard to get. With the lack of assistance, in finding his father, Pete gets creative with his search. Soon, he learns his absent father lives in England. In addition, he discovers Nigel plans to visit his own relatives in London and will try to get any information about the whereabouts of Pete's father. Pete anxiously waits for Nigel to return so he can get his father's address and phone number. However, he experiences another setback when Nigel returns and decides to keep a promise he made – a pledge not to give out Pete's Dad's contact information. Pete gets word about Dale and Ella, his siblings. Also, he finds out his seventy-two-year-old father had a stroke and is a widower. He searches for his father on the Internet and arranges to travel to London to meet him. What should be a happy family reunion is marred by bitterness between the siblings, who resent Pete re-entering their father's life. When there is a struggle over inheritance, all hell breaks loose, and family matters end up in court.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar "Helping Our Students Become the Citizens the World Needs Them to Be" with special guest presenter, Mark Moran. June 3, 2017. We are very excited to have Mark Moran returning to Classroom 2.0 LIVE to bring us updates with several of the passions in his life: SweetSearch and FindingDulcinea, the Choose2Matter initiative he co-founded with Angela Maiers, and steps for better online research. Mark will discuss how to guide students to become self-aware, empathetic, creative, confident, courageous, well-informed, and passionate agents of social change. Mark is the Founder, Dulcinea Media, an Author, and former General Counsel of 24/7 Media. Mark creates products that help students become the citizens the world needs them to be: self-aware, empathetic, empowered, creative, courageous, well-informed, and passionate agents of social change. SweetSearch is highly recognized as the best search engine for student research. Mark and Angela Maiers have created an online professional development course called "Choose2Matter," which challenges teachers and students to accept that they matter and have something important to contribute the world - and then helps them do just that. It fosters authentic, passion-based learning. Participants will become self-aware, empathetic, empowered, collaborative, innovative, passionate agents of social change. It comes with a classroom implementation package and will be available in June 2017. The course takes six seat hours; it includes activities and group discussion that extend the learning for a full course or a full year. In addition, Mark is also creating an online course to teach educators, students, and employees how to do effective online research. https://twitter.com/markemoran Mark E. Moran on Twitter http://www.sweetsearch.com/ SweetSearch http://2day.sweetsearch.com/ SweetSearch 2 Day http://www.findingdulcinea.com/ Finding Dulcinea http://www.markmoran.com/c2m.html Online course: Choose2Matter http://www.encontrandodulcinea.com/inicio.html (Spanish version of findingDulcinea)

This episode features Xeno-Canto, SwapADVD, Still Tasty, stikK, Yippy.com, Safesearchkids.com, Sweetsearch.com, Askkids.com, Kidrex.org, and Kidzsearch.com.

This episode features Isabelperez.com, inklewriter, Sweet Search, Swarm, and Webcam Toy.

Building Learning: Students should not be expected to suddenly sit down and complete a research project when they are in grade school. Children need time to build and scaffold their experiences. This video shares projects I complete with students in first through eighth grade that take them from a children's dictionary scavenger hunt to learning to edit Wikipedia. One of the aspects that overwhelms students is that in addition to building a useful search query, they then have to go to the webpage and read the content in a sea of distracting links and screen cluttering ads. They need to be able to vet the information. In first grade, I give the students clues to find words in Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary online. We build the concept in second and third grade through a cloze activity in which they find missing words. The student research state information for teachers. In fourth and fifth grade, the students learn about Sweet Search 4 Me and Google. They use paper encyclopedias and fill in missing information online. They learn to bookmark and site sources. In middle school, the students dig into aspects website details to determine the authority, bias, content, and usability of the information. They take charge of their learning by researching and presenting on a topic for which they have written a proposal. We learn to use search databases to dig deeper into the information available on the Internet. The students learn to edit Wikipedia and build our school's entry.

The topic for Saturday, June 11th will be “Sweet Search and findingDulcinea Updates” with our special guest, Mark Moran, founder of SweetSearch and Dulcinea Media. Mark will share ways to use the student-safe ‘Sweet Search’ engine and the updates made to the search engine and findingDulcinea websites.

Elluminate Chat Log: The topic for Saturday, June 11th will be “Sweet Search and findingDulcinea Updates” with our special guest, Mark Moran, founder of SweetSearch and Dulcinea Media. Mark will share ways to use the student-safe ‘Sweet Search’ engine and the updates made to the search engine and findingDulcinea websites.

The topic for Saturday, June 11th will be “Sweet Search and findingDulcinea Updates” with our special guest, Mark Moran, founder of SweetSearch and Dulcinea Media. Mark will share ways to use the student-safe ‘Sweet Search’ engine and the updates made to the search engine and findingDulcinea websites.

Schools_and_Tech_27_Waiting_for_Superman.mp3 Listen on Posterous Schools and Tech Podcast Episode #27   News of the Week:1) Cal State Bans Students from Using Online Note-Selling Service  Indeed, the provision of the state education code does some raise questions about intellectual property and the ownership of ideas and course content. If the students don't own their class-notes - or at least, cannot sell them commercially - who does? The professor? The university? The state?2) UK: Every email and website to be stored - UK TelegraphEvery email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans.3) Court: No Teacher Speech Rights on Curriculum, from Education Week  - Teachers have no First Amendment free-speech protection for curricular decisions they make in the classroom, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday."Only the school board has ultimate responsibility for what goes on in the classroom, legitimately giving it a say over what teachers may (or may not) teach in the classroom," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, said in its opinion. 4) Some snowed-in Ohio students to learn online from The Washington Post - Way to ruin snow days, Ohio.Main Topic:   Waiting for Superman, Our Take with Special Guest, Lucy Gray an education consultant in Chicago. What Superman Got Wrong Point By Point - The Washington Post - The Answer Sheet - by Rick Ayers - CTThe amped-up rhetoric of crisis and failure everywhere is being used to promote business-model reforms that are destabilizing even in successful schools and districts. A panel at NBC’s Education Nation Summit, taking place in New York today and tomorrow, was originally titled "Does Education Need a Katrina?" Such disgraceful rhetoric undermines reasonable debate.NYT Opinion Page on Waiting for Superman & The Education Debate - from Saturday 10/2New York Review of Books piece on Waiting for SupermanWhat I Learned from NBC’s Education Summit - by Brian Jones - CTOn the same thread - Here we have a message honed to perfection... for the wealthy: the unions are the problem; the teachers need to be cheaper; give me money now for a few beautiful schools that can help break the unions and open up the education market; but don't worry, we don't want too much; we certainly don't want what your children have.That's what I learned from NBC's Education Nation Summit. Beware CEOs who say teachers are the problem. And beware CEO solutions. You might find yourself in a room without windows.(CT’s markup page)  http://markup.io/v/qe0sgyt1c0knWaiting for Superman: Don't look for easy answers the film implies, panel of educators says - Stanford Report - TATEducation spending in America has more than doubled in the last four decades – yet math and reading scores have flat-lined.What's the remedy? A panel of educators at Stanford cautioned against the quick policy cures implied in the explosive Waiting for Superman.Grading School Choice - NYT Op Ed piece reminding us all of the dangers of overpromising (a la Waiting for Superman) - CTOverpromising leads inevitably to disappointment. When it comes to raising test scores, the grail of most reformers, school choice’s record is still ambiguous. For every charter school success story like the Harlem Children’s Zone and the KIPP network — both touted in Guggenheim’s documentary — there’s a charter school where scores are worse than the public school status quo. The same is true for vouchers and merit pay: the jury is still out on whether either policy consistently raises academic performance. This doesn’t mean that school choice doesn’t work, Hess argues. It just means that the benefits are often more modest and incremental than many reformers want to think.Tim's Tech Tidbit:  Hands Off! and Little Snitch - How to know when your machine is “calling home” to someone else!Endorsements: Roger: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa2lk16.htm polychromatic syllacious styluses w/ concept mapping Kevin: The Tinkering School: Gever Tully (Woodie Flowers at MIT? Lucy: The Center for Graphic Facilitation - mapping through drawings; Global  Education Conference from Nov 15-19 w/ Steve Hargadon; YoLink searching and Sweetsearch.com elemenous@gmail.com; skype/twitter = elemenous Tim:  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100913/00133010984.shtml - register your blog for DMCA protection with the copyright office Cammy: Brain Rules for Baby - John Medina & Bookster iPad app - takes a standard book, with illustrations, and adds an audio narration recorded by a child. Each time you flip the page, the audio automatically starts, and each word is highlighted on the screen as it's said aloud. Touch individual words and they’re read aloud to help with pronunciation skills. App also allows the user to record his or her own voice for each page of the story. Permalink | Leave a comment  »