Fourteen students from two New York City schools — Jamaica High and Queens Collegiate — wrote an impressive play about school reform under Chancellor Joel Klein and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, based on the classic play “Antigone.” They were rehearsing to perform the play — complete with music, visual projections and lights — when they were told that their principals had decided not to allow them stage it. The play, titled “Declassified: Struggle for Existence (We Used to Eat Lunch Together,” was banned.
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8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study | Wired Science | Wired.com
The project, which began three years ago, grew out of a lecture neuroscientist Beau Lotto of University College London gave at the school, where his son Misha was a student. Lotto spoke about his research on human perception, bumblebees and robots, and then shared his ideas on how science is done: “Science is nothing more than a game.”
“Nature’s way for us to discover patterns and relationships is to play. That’s the same aim that science has,” Lotto said. “I think everyone does science every day. The scientific process is part of life.”
Nieman Reports | The Sports Tweet: New Routines on an Old Beat
What’s much tougher—and exponentially more complicated for those working with the values of traditional journalism—is when I learn news from off-the-record sources, which is increasingly common across the league. This is when I find the immediacy to be tricky because rumors often masquerade as news and are transmitted without regard for whether they have been verified. There is a noticeable lack of accountability that seems to reside in the emerging Twitter territory as those who aren’t part of a news organization can use this reporting tool recklessly.
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Gamification is a hot topic, with big brands and startups alike trying to leverage the power of points, badges, levels, challenges and rewards to engage users, generate virality and solve problems. Join Gabe Zichermann, Gamification Expert and Author as he discusses some of the main ways that gamification will change your business. He’ll share examples of gamification done right – and done poorly, and give you a preview of some of the amazing content that will be shared at the upcoming Gamification Summit in San Francisco – GSummit.com.
Amazon.com: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (9781592402038): Lynne Truss: Books
Castilleja School Library | Espinosa Library
A pretty nice example of how a library is using a blog. You might recognize the theme.
A Box? Or a Spaceship? What Makes Kids Creative – WSJ.com
While his classmates let their imaginations run wild making up colorful characters and fantasy worlds, the little boy said repeatedly, “I can’t think of anything,” Ms. Dea says. Although she reassured him that nothing he did would be judged “wrong,” he tried to copy another student’s game, then asked if he could make a work sheet instead. She finally gave him permission to make flash cards with right-and-wrong answers.
Super Punch: New rules for the boring board games everyone owns
Liven up your Christmas by remixing the boardgames in your house to make brand new games. The Boardgame Remix Kit works with all the great family favourites. It’s got twenty five games that you can play using the boards and pieces you’ve already got. As well as smoothing out or speeding up a standard game, the kit can turn Monopoly* into a family poker tournament, Trivial Pursuit* into a surrealist parlour game; Scrabble* into fight between a wasp and a robot, and Cluedo* into a zombie invasion.
Daily Tip: Import Your Del.ic.io.us Bookmarks Into WordPress – WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org
Yes, it’s true. Yahoo is shutting down Del.ic.io.us. You’d better grab your bookmarks while you can! Want to host the links yourself? You can do that with WordPress and the help of the DeliciousLinkSync plugin. Kyle Jones has an excellent, quick tutorial for giving your Del.ic.io.us bookmarks a new home on your WordPress site. The best part is that you’ll be able to preserver your existing tag structure.