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More and Muir Tech Tips for Teaching About a Greener Tomorrow
Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education
Data from Kaiser Family Foundation Study, 2005
R U havN trouble rEDN DIS? iz it makin U :-||, ^set, Grr? DIS iz d way kds TLK. CreslE. It iz EZ 4 dem. dey luv it. dey luv it mo wen U spk thR lngwij. @ lEst a ltl bit.
20/200 O1
20/100 M G 2
20/70 L O L 3
20/50 R O F L 420/40 L 8 R P O S 520/30 U R A N O O B 620/20
L M A O T T F N7
20/15K T H X B Y E : P
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Data from Kaiser Family Foundation Study, 2005
R U havN trouble rEDN DIS? iz it makin U :-||, ^set, Grr? DIS iz d way kds TLK. CreslE. It iz EZ 4 dem. dey luv it. dey luv it mo wen U spk thR lngwij. @ lEst a ltl bit.
Are you having trouble reading this? Is it making you mad, upset, angry? This is the way kids talk. Seriously. It is easy for them. They love it. They love it more when you speak their language. At least a little bit.
3 hrs watching TV
1 hr on the computer (outside of schoolwork)
1 hr 45 min listening to music (radio, CDs, MP3 players)
45 minutes playing video games
6 ½ hrs/day
Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Change the Way You Search
Change the Way You Search
www.blackle.com
Change on Demand
www.discoveryeducation.com
Change Your Students’ Views About Writing in Science Class
• Create P-essays about the environment
Change Attitudes With Digital Posters
• Whales• Global Warming
http://edu.glogster.com
Change Students’ Views of the World
http://earth.google.com
Students can create and collaborate via voice, animated doodling and text commenting
http://voicethread.com
Change the Discussion
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• Empower your students to find solutions to environmental problems in their own backyards and have them become true Agents of Change!
www.wecanchange.com
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• The Challenge is designed to help your students work together to solve an environmental problem in their…– Classroom (K-2)– School (3-5)– Community (6-8)
www.wecanchange.com
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• Learn About the Challenge
www.wecanchange.com
including the prizes…
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
TEAM PRIZES• an on-site video shoot of the class that will be turned
into a commercial and run on one of Discovery's networks
• a $5,000 grant for your school • an opportunity to be featured on a jumbotron in Times
Square in New York City • a Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
green prize • a banner for your school
TEACHER/MENTOR PRIZES• a chance to be a guest editor on treehugger.com • free registration to the next NSTA National (or Area)
Conference • hotel accommodations for three nights at the
conference • a pocket video camera • a one-year membership to NSTA • and a 12-month subscription to Discovery Education
Science Elementary version
www.wecanchange.com
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
www.wecanchange.com
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• Then Get Started
www.wecanchange.com
with an abundance of free resources…
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
www.wecanchange.com
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
www.wecanchange.com
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
www.wecanchange.com
• Now it’s time to Learn, Plan, Act and Share!
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
www.wecanchange.com
• Submitting the application is easy!
Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge
• So what are you waiting for???
• Need more information?
Attend a free webinar.
http://links.discoveryeducation.com/wecanchange
www.WeCanChange.com
• Check out the Science in Action blog for a copy of the presentation– http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/scienceinaction
• Register for a free webinar to learn more– http://links.discoveryeducation.com/wecanchange
More and Muir Tech Tips for Teaching About a Greener Tomorrow
Lance Rougeux, Discovery Education
www.wecanchange.com