"Learning Tools: Best Apps for Young Inventors"

Learning Tools: Best Apps for Young Inventors

Remember losing yourself for hours in fort building, marble mazes, or home science kits? Take your kids back to that magical time. Now they can invent contraptions, concepts, and creations -- all online, without the mess. These inspiring apps, games, and websites are sure to get their creative juices flowing.

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Some Book: Celebrating 60 Years of 'Charlotte's Web'

Essay

Some Book

Celebrating 60 Years of ‘Charlotte’s Web’

By MICHAEL SIMS

Published: April 20, 2012

I knew of several barns where I thought the past might lie.

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Illustration by Garth Williams from ‘Charlotte’s Web.’ Copyright renewed 1980 by estate of Garth Williams.

— E. B. White

The barn was very large. It was very old. For more than a century before E. B. White and his wife, Katharine, purchased the farm in 1933, the barn had stood on a rise above Allen Cove, Me., near the village of North Brooklin. For White, the barn was the center of their 40 acres, even more so than the big white house that was attached to it by an aromatic woodshed. The building united White’s two great writerly loves — barnyard animals and Maine. During his long career he wrote about everything from the predictability of radio preachers to the emotional fallout from nuclear dread, but he meditated upon farm animals and Maine life with particular affection.

"A Surprising Risk for Toddlers at Playground Slides"

A Surprising Risk for Toddlers on Playground Slides

The Well Column |

By TARA PARKER-POPE

| April 23, 2012, 5:46 pm 51

Last spring, Katie Dickman of Dunkirk, Md., was at the playground with her 18-month-old toddler, Hannah, when the little girl asked to ride down a twisting slide. Ms. Dickman accompanied her daughter, carefully keeping the child on her lap as they coasted to the bottom.
But without warning, Hannah’s sneaker caught on the side of the slide. Although Ms. Dickman grabbed the leg and unstuck her daughter’s foot, by the time they reached the ground, the girl was whimpering and could not walk. A doctor’s visit later revealed a fractured tibia.

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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/a-surprising-risk-for-toddlers-at-playground-slides/

"Robots Rule as Competition Season Heats Up"

STEM | Feature

Robots Rule as Competition Season Heats Up

Robotics has become a phenomenon in K-12. Tens of thousands of teams composed of literally hundreds of thousands of K-12 students will compete in robotics events worldwide in 2012 alone. Yet, with all of this activity, robotics programs are only in 10 percent of the schools in the United States.

By Dian Schaffhauser
04/17/12

Worldwide competitions dominate robotics news in April. But Team Antipodes (tagline: "One Robot to Rule Them All...") has gone as far as it chooses to. Although it will attend the FIRST Championship with its latest robot, Archie (short for Archimedes), taking place in St. Louis at the end of April, the three young women who make up the team expect to spend a lot of their time meeting up with friends and cheering each other on.

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"Biography Comics -- Who?"

Biography Comics – Who?

19 Apr

My son is a good reader. The only problem is he only likes to read mystery or fantasy types. I had been trying to get him read biographies, but he never showed any interest. Amazingly, once he found the Who? Comics and started reading, he could not put it down.
Who? Comics is an educational comic book app intended for kids 8 and older. The series includes 29 biographies: Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Steven Spielberg, Joanne Rowling, Barack Obama, Warren Buffett, Stephen Hawking, Nelson Mandela, Jane Goodall, … The App is just a plain book app. You tap the page, the page will turn. There is no sound or interactive features while you read. What make the child stick to it are the kids appropriate story lines and drawing. The funny cartoon expressions on the characters’ faces and how they react to things all adds to the story. Comparing to a lot other biography books that just state the facts, these are interesting stories.

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"Attention Problems May be Sleep-Related"

Attention Problems May Be Sleep-Related

Family |

By KATE MURPHY

| April 16, 2012, 6:15 pm 72

Diagnoses of attention hyperactivity disorder among children have increased dramatically in recent years, rising 22 percent from 2003 to 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many experts believe that this may not be the epidemic it appears to be.

Many children are given a diagnosis of A.D.H.D., researchers say, when in fact they have another problem: a sleep disorder, like sleep apnea. The confusion may account for a significant number of A.D.H.D. cases in children, and the drugs used to treat them may only be exacerbating the problem.

“No one is saying A.D.H.D. does not exist, but there’s a strong feeling now that we need to rule out sleep issues first,” said Dr. Merrill Wise, a pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist at the Methodist Healthcare Sleep Disorders Center in Memphis.

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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/attention-problems-may-be-sleep-related/

"At a Brooklyn School, the Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around"

At a Brooklyn School, the Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around

Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Chess master James A. Black (in track suit) with the I.S. 318 team and their national trophy.

By ANNE BARNARD and DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN

Published: April 17, 2012

The classroom at Intermediate School 318 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was filled on Tuesday with the thumping and clattering of a half-dozen high-speed chess matches, played with a rambunctious energy more reminiscent of a hockey game than of Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue.

Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Sixth-grade chess players at I.S. 318, whose answering machine announces, “Home of the national chess champions.”

The school’s conquering heroes — its chess players — were blowing off steam. On Sunday, in Minneapolis, they became the first middle school team to win the United States Chess Federation’s national high school championship. The team, mostly eighth graders, beat out top high schools like Stuyvesant in Manhattan and Thomas Jefferson in Alexandria, Va.

"Taming the Wild Text"

Taming the Wild Text

Pam Allyn

A top-10 list of strategies to help the struggling reader become fierce, unafraid, and strong.

We learn to do well what we learn to love; it's as true in reading as in anything else. For 10 years, I've guided a reading program for boys at the Children's Village, a residential school in New York City for children in foster care. These boys have been through bruising school and home experiences that have made them feel extra ordinarily vulnerable as readers. Many have told me that they've never once experienced pleasure in reading. But over the years, as we've built a culture for reading, I've seen many of these strugglers make a breakthrough; they stop seeing their struggles as a barrier to success and begin to see them within the larger picture of the challenges all readers experience as they learn to find pleasure in print.
One of my students told me that the first time he ever experienced joy in reading was when I read to him from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. With his eyes full of tears, he said, "I feel a lot like Max sometimes, all alone. But he makes me feel brave again."

The truth is, we're all struggling readers. At some time today or tomorrow, you'll be reading something and you'll feel the print sliding away from you, your sense of power over the page slipping, your comprehension becoming murkier as you press on. It doesn't feel good. There are children who feel this every day, whether looking at a street sign or a simple picture book. When the world of print lacks deep meaning for a child, the reading experience becomes like wandering in an unfamiliar universe.

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http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar12/vol69/num06/Taming-the-Wild-Text.aspx

"With Our Future on the Line, the Time to Invest in Kids Is Now"

With Our Future on the Line, the Time to Invest in Kids Is Now

Our nation's economic future is uncertain; we face increasingly aggressive global competition; lagging academic achievement is dragging down economic output; and almost two-thirds of Americans think our nation is on the wrong track.
We know the bad news all too well. The good news is that America has been at these kinds of perilous moments in our past and we did what it took to emerge more prosperous and secure than before. Indeed, one of our defining qualities throughout history hasn't been an ability to avoid great national challenges, but to overcome them when they confronted us.
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that we're tackling today's economic and global competitive challenges with the same levels of determination and investment.
The State of Preschool 2011: State Preschool Yearbook, a new report from Rutgers University's National Institute for Early Education Research, released this week, reveals that total spending on early childhood education by all 50 states and the District of Columbia decreased nearly $60 million from 2010 to 2011, capping a ten-year decline of 15 percent during the past decade.
This may not be a cause of alarm to Americans whose only eye on the future is through the lens of GDP and unemployment statistics. But, in fact, our investment in early education is perhaps the most important economic indicator of them of all.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kennedy-shriver/with-our-future-on-the-li_b_1417433.html

"Making Education Brain Science"

Making Education Brain Science

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

MORNING MEETING School is in.

By JENNY ANDERSON

Published: April 13, 2012

LAST month, two kindergarten classes at the Blue School were hard at work doing what many kindergartners do: drawing. One group pursued a variation on the self-portrait. “That’s me thinking about my brain,” one 5-year-old-girl said of her picture. Down the hall, children with oil pastels in hand were illustrating their emotions, mapping where they started and where they ended. For one girl, sadness ended at home with a yummy drink and her teddy bear.

Grappling so directly with thoughts and emotions may seem odd for such young brains, but it is part of the DNA of the Blue School, a downtown Manhattan private school that began six years ago as a play group. From the beginning, the founders wanted to incorporate scientific research about childhood development into the classroom. Having rapidly grown to more than 200 students in preschool through third grade, the school has become a kind of national laboratory for integrating cognitive neuroscience and cutting-edge educational theory into curriculum, professional development and school design.

"6 Fresh Ways to Clean Up Your Kids' Media"

6 Fresh Ways to Clean Up Your Kids' Media

In Digital citizenship, Family media management, Internet safety, Social networking and virtual worlds by Caroline Knorr, on 04.09.12

One of the biggest surprises about raising kids in today's media-and-tech-filled world is that it's not the shadowy, dangerous place we've been warned about. Yes, there's iffy stuff out there, but much of what kids can discover is enriching, inspiring, practical, helpful, and fun.
That doesn't mean that you can let your kids loose with no limits or guidance. A big part of parenting today involves knowing what your kids are doing online, teaching them to be responsible and respectful, and helping them make good choices. In other words, teaching them to participate constructively and age appropriately.
Spurred by new research and new thinking -- and a strong impulse for spring cleaning -- we're challenging the conventional wisdom about managing kids' entertainment.
Brush the cobwebs off the old thinking, and usher in some fresh new ideas about how to manage everything from the Internet to iTunes.

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Caine's Arcade

Caine’s Arcade Short Film

9 year old Caine Monroy, who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store, is about to have the best day of his life.

You'll love this sweet film about the spirit, innocence, and determination of a 9-year-old entrepreneur.

"How to Create Nonreaders"

How to Create Nonreaders

ENGLISH JOURNALFall 2010 -- vol. 100, no. 1

Reflections on Motivation, Learning, and Sharing Power

by Alfie Kohn

Autonomy-supportive teachers seek a student's initiative

- whereas controlling teachers seek a student's
compliance. -- J. Reeve, E. Bolt, & Y. Cai

Not that you asked, but my favorite Spanish proverb, attributed to the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, can be translated as follows: "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." In keeping with this general sentiment, I'd like to begin my contribution to an issue of this journal whose theme is "Motivating Students" by suggesting that it is impossible to motivate students.

In fact, it's not really possible to motivate anyone, except perhaps yourself. If you have enough power, sure, you can make people, including students, do things. That's what rewards (e.g., grades) and punishments (e.g., grades) are for. But you can't make them do those things well -- "You can command writing, but you can't command good writing," as Donald Murray once remarked -- and you can't make them want to do those things. The more you rely on coercion and extrinsic inducements, as a matter of fact, the less interest students are likely to have in whatever they were induced to do.

"Singapore Math Demystified!"

Singapore Math Demystified!

Singapore Math:

Can It Help Solve Our Country's Math-phobia?

Editor's Note: Due to the interest expressed over our previous posts about Singapore Math and the non-Singaporean-specific classic, "Why Our Kids Don't Get Math" here, The Daily Riff is featuring an exclusive original four-part series by Bill Jackson, Math Helping Teacher, Scarsdale, NY Public Schools, one of the highest performing districts in the country.

We asked Bill to share his truly incredible (which is both humbling and exhilarating) global journey into math education from Singapore to Japan and back again to the United States in an original series for The Daily Riff. His posts are becoming classics in the Singapore Math lexicon. - C.J. Westerberg

How I Became Interested In Singapore Math
Part 1

By Bill Jackson

In 1997, I attended a series of workshops on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). That study compared math achievement in over 40 countries in grades 4, 8 and 12. Singapore and a handful of East Asian countries performed extremely well, much better than the United States, which had a mediocre performance. I was an 8th grade teacher at Public School No. 2 in Paterson, New Jersey at the time.

At the workshop we watched videotapes of mathematics classrooms from Japan, Germany and the U.S. The U.S. lesson looked very familiar. The teacher showed his students how to do a procedure and then they practiced while the teacher helped individual students. The Japanese lesson looked very different, however. The teacher began the lesson by posing a rich problem. Then the students solved the problem based on what they had learned previously and shared different solution methods. Important mathematical points of the lesson were brought out through class discussion of the various methods. The students looked very engaged and they even clapped for each other. After watching the video, I felt that my students were getting shortchanged and I became determined to learn how to teach like that Japanese teacher!

"Online Learning, Personalized"

Online Learning, Personalized

By SOMINI SENGUPTA

Published: December 4, 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jesse Roe, a ninth-grade math teacher at a charter school here called Summit, has a peephole into the brains of each of his 38 students.

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Salman Khan in the offices of his company, Khan Academy, in Mountain View, Calif. His math lessons are popular on YouTube.

Jesse Roe, a teacher in the Summit school in San Jose, can use the teaching software to monitor the math progress of students like Cheyenne Grant, 14, right. Top, a lesson on the parts of a cell from a Khan Academy video on YouTube.

He can see that a girl sitting against the wall is zipping through geometry exercises; that a boy with long curls over his eyes is stuck on a lesson on long equations; and that another boy in the front row is getting a handle on probability.

Each student’s math journey shows up instantly on the laptop Mr. Roe carries as he wanders the room. He stops at each desk, cajoles, offers tips, reassures. For an hour, this crowded, dimly lighted classroom in the hardscrabble shadow of Silicon Valley hums with the sound of fingers clicking on keyboards, pencils scratching on paper and an occasional whoop when a student scores a streak of right answers.
The software program unleashed in this classroom is the brainchild of Salman Khan, an Ivy League-trained math whiz and the son of an immigrant single mother. Mr. Khan, 35, has become something of an online sensation with his Khan Academy math and science lessons on YouTube, which has attracted up to 3.5 million viewers a month.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/technology/khan-academy-blends-its-youtube-approach-with-classrooms.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Khan%20Academy&st=cse

"In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise"

In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise

View Photo Gallery — Schools in Montgomery County and elsewhere are embracing research that shows children praised for trying hard or taking risks tend to find greater success.

By Michael Alison Chandler, Published: January 15The Washington Post

For decades, the prevailing wisdom in education was that high self-esteem would lead to high achievement. The theory led to an avalanche of daily affirmations, awards ceremonies and attendance certificates — but few, if any, academic gains.
Now, an increasing number of teachers are weaning themselves from what some call empty praise. Drawing on psychology and brain research, these educators aim to articulate a more precise, and scientific, vocabulary for praise that will push children to work through mistakes and take on more challenging assignments.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-schools-self-esteem-boosting-is-losing-favor-to-rigor-finer-tuned-praise/2012/01/11/gIQAXFnF1P_story.html

"Are We Creating Innovators?"

Parents & Schools : Are we creating innovators? 22 Insights

CJ Westerberg, April 4, 2012 9:32 PM

"When asked about the role of failure in his learning,
one Olin College engineering student said,
'I don't think about failure - I think about iterating."

PLUS Video Below

Educator and author, Tony Wagner, and I sat down for lunch recently to talk about his new book, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World.

This is most definitely not --- oh-another-book-on-why-we-need-to-be innovative.

Sure, Wagner gives us a terrific primer as to why innovation is absolutely critical for our future growth and success. But what is most compelling is his meticulous dissection of how innovators are raised, challenged, supported, and developed, after an extensive process of identifying and conducting over 150 interviews.

"My Kid Would Never Do That"

Upcoming NBC Dateline Series: “My Kid Would Never Do That”

Posted on April 10, 2012

‘MY KID WOULD NEVER DO THAT’ FRANCHISE RETURNS TO “DATELINE”

Reported by Natalie Morales, 4-Week Series Debuts Sunday, April 15 at 7p/6c

April 4, 2012 – New York, NY … “Dateline’s” My Kid Would Never Do That series premieres on Sunday, April 15 at 7p/6c. With the help of parents and child behavior experts, “Dateline’s” hidden cameras capture children as they make critical choices about stranger safety, drunk driving, cheating and discrimination. Parents and experts watch as the surprising, revealing scenarios unfold and share tips that will help children prepare for these situations in real life.
“We encourage parents to watch this series with their children,” said Liz Cole, Executive Producer, Dateline. “Each hour takes on an issue that keeps moms and dads up at night, and provides concrete advice that will help parents teach their kids to do the right thing.”
Sunday, April 15 at 7p/6c: Stranger-DangerWhile stranger abductions are rare, all parents worry about keeping kids safe. Does your child know what to do when approached by a stranger?
• We test elementary school kids as they are invited for a private tour of an ice cream truck – will they remember what their parents have taught them about never getting into a vehicle with a stranger?
• And giving out personal information in the digital age can be dangerous—will some young teens tell a stranger their names and addresses, even though they’ve been warned not to? Anxious parents will be watching, and our experts will be standing by to offer advice about what to tell kids.
Sunday, April 22 at 7p/6c: DrivingGiving your teenager the keys to a car is one of the scariest moments of parenthood. Will they make safe choices? We watch, along with Robert Turrisi, a Penn State professor and consultant to MADD, as teens make decisions in what appeared to be three potentially dangerous situations:
• Will they text while driving, even though they’ve promised not to?
• Will they get into a car with a teen they think has been drinking?
• What about with a driver who says he is high?
Sunday, April 29 at 7p/6c: CheatingExperts say cheating in schools is an epidemic, but most parents think their kid would never do it. From using cell phones to look up answers on a quiz to changing scores in an athletic drill, parents watch to see if their kids will be tempted to cheat. The report features insight and advice from Rosalind Wiseman, noted author of “Queen Bees and Wannabees” and an expert on teen ethics and behavior.
Sunday, May 6 at 7p/6c: DiscriminationThis generation of American kids is the most diverse in history, but do teens know what to do when confronted with racial and ethnic discrimination and do they understand how hurtful it can be? In partnership with theGrio.com and NBCLatino.com, we place teenagers in situations where they will have to make some tough decisions. Will they base those choices on religion and/or the color of someone’s skin or will they treat everyone equally? Their parents watch … and learn powerful lessons that apply to all of us.

"Miss Representation" movie screening

Posted on April 10, 2012

Please join us for the screening of the film “Miss Representation” in the deCsepel Theater on April 17 @ 6:30 pm. Middle and Upper School students, parents from all divisions and the public are invited. Please watch the trailer (below) to ensure that the film is appropriate for your daughter.
From: http://www.missrepresentation.org/

The documentary Miss Representation, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.

On Cosmopolitanism

By: Patrick F. Bassett
Published: February 15, 2012
Updated: March 22, 2012

March, 2012
Last summer I had the opportunity to speak in Japan, shortly after the devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant meltdown. I learned some astonishing things about the character of the Japanese people on that trip. One story I read while there was about septuagenarians showing up and volunteering for the nuclear plant cleanup, assuming that if anyone’s life should be placed at risk from leaking radioactivity, it should be those who have already lived a long time, rather than any young people employed on the emergency services team.
A second story I read was that in the space of a couple of days after the tsunami, $75 million in unmarked cash that had washed ashore was turned in to authorities, the prevailing ethos being, “This is not my money, so I must turn it in.” It’s hard to imagine either event happening in the United States, where the attitude would more likely be, “I didn’t sign up for that” in the first case, and “Thank you God for answering my prayers” in the other. These events reinforced for me…
1. How valuable in the shrinking world and global economy it would be to learn about how other cultures process events and what attitudes and values drive their reactions; and…

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In South Korean classrooms, digital textbook revolution meets some resistance

Ahn Young-joon/AP - Teacher Yeon Eun-jung, right, helps student Jeong Ho-seok study on a tablet PC during a lesson at Sosu Elementary School in Gwesan, South Korea in July. The country is now scaling back a plan to digitize classrooms by 2015.

By Chico Harlan, Published: March 24The Washington Post

SEOUL — Five years ago, South Korea mapped out a plan to transform its education system into the world’s most cutting-edge. The country would turn itself into a “knowledge powerhouse,” one government report declared, breeding students “equipped for the future.” These students would have little use for the bulky textbooks familiar to their parents. Their textbooks would be digital, accessible on any screen of their choosing. Their backpacks would be much lighter.
By setting out to swap traditional textbooks for digital ones, the chief element of its plan for transformation, South Korea tried to anticipate the future — and its vision has largely taken shape with the global surge of tablets, smartphones and e-book readers.

Of the 10 cities in the world with the fastest internet connections, the top five are in South Korea. The top two cities, Taegu and Taejon, averaged speeds above 20 Mbps, fast enough to download high-definition video with ease. Across the world, internet speeds are rising, averaging 2.7 Mbps at last count.

But South Korea, among the world’s most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn’t anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more.

Why Bilinguals are Smarter

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

Harriet Russell

By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE

Published: March 17, 2012

SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

Bringing Up an E-Reader

David Maxwell for The New York Times

Xander Peeples, left, and Matthew Stokedale using iPads in their second-grade class.

By THOMAS J. FITZGERALD

Published: March 28, 2012

Julianna Huth, a second grader at Green Primary School, in Green, Ohio, is a convert to the digital word.

Julianna Huth working with both an iPad and a wireless keyboard.

The 8-year-old uses both an iPad and a Nook, and she enjoys e-books at home and at school.

“It’s just cool that you can read on your iPad,” said Julianna, who started using e-books when she was 6. “It’s more fun and you learn more from it.”

Children would say that. Books on iPads and some e-readers like the Nook Color or the Kindle Fire are fun. They include music, animation and other interactive elements that make reading a book feel like playing a video game.

Tweet, Tweet Go the Kindergartners

Tweet, Tweet, Go the Kindergartners

April 2, 2012, 2:53 p.m.

By Anna M. Phillips

“Tweet, tweet, tweet!” chirped the kindergartners in Jennifer Aaron’s class last week, as they settled onto the multicolored carpet and began to consider what they would like to send out into the Twitter universe that day.
Three days a week, as the school day draws to a close, the children in Ms. Aaron’s class sit down to compose a message about what they have been doing all day. They then send it out to their parents and relatives through Twitter, the stamping grounds of celebrities and politicians, where few kindergartners have been known to venture.

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http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/04/02/tweet-tweet-go-the-kindergartners