Edutopia: New Media’s Potential to Improve Education
(Cross-posted from my private practice site.) Edutopia has a fantastic June issue with a focus on using new media in education. In particular, they have a video about Albano Berberi, a blind high school student who uses assistive technology to do things like computer programming, video-game playing, and composing musical scores that he then performs [...]
Onion Spoofs on World of Warcraft
For anyone who knows one of the 9 million people worldwide who play World of Warcraft online and has listened to them talk about playing the game, this is pretty funny. ‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’
Research on Preschool Ed with Executive Function Focus
(Cross-posted from the blog on my private practice site.) An article in this week’s Newsweek by Wray Herbert describes some fascinating research being done on enhancing preschool education by focusing the curriculum specifically to improve executive functions. From the article: [...] Psychologist Adele Diamond of the University of British Columbia has been testing the EF [...]
Car Wash for Eden Park Elementary School
I don’t know about you, but I’m loving all this beautiful weather. The only down side is the ton of tree pollen and other stuff all over my car. What better time than now for a car wash to benefit the education of our Cranston youth! WHAT: EDEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 5th GRADE CLASS CAR [...]
New Study on Meditative Mindfulness and ADHD
(This is cross-posted from my private practice site.) Sharpbrains.com, one of the sites in our Technology & Helping Kids blogroll, has an article by Dr. David Rabiner in which he reviews some new research on teaching mindfulness meditation to teens and adults, and how study participants with attentional problems were helped by learning and practicing [...]
Music Can Improve Executive Function and Mental Health
(Cross-posted on my private practice site.) I have been thinking about music recently, ever since a colleague of mine questioned whether there is scientific proof of the effectiveness of music therapy. Hence, I started doing a little Googling on the subject and learned about a kind of therapy for ADHD called “Interactive Metronome.” If you [...]
Geoff Schoos Analyzes Local School Funding Politics
In his column this week in The Cranston Herald, Geoff Schoos offers some piercing analysis of the social dynamics being enacted in Cranston (and probably elsewhere) as communities scrabble over the dwindling funds for education and other services. From The Cranston Herald: I’m sick and tired… Over the past seven years, our schools have been [...]
Olson and Kutner Research Video Games and Violence
(This is cross-posted from the blog on my private practice site.) In 2004, Lawrence Kutner, PhD, and Cheryl K. Olson, ScD, cofounders and directors of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media, started doing research on the effects of video games. With $1.5 million in federal funding from The US Department of [...]
A Message from Alan Shawn Feinstein
This message came home with my daughter’s notes from school. Her school is a Feinstein Junior Scholar School. The IMAX Corporation has sold the Feinstein IMAX Theatre, ignoring their promises to me of thousands of tickets yearly and admission discounts to our 155,000 Feinstein Jr. Scholars — and much more. I am asking for damages [...]
Plan to Increase 6th Grade Classes at Eden Park Nixed
PTO President for Eden Park Elementary School, Liz Iacobucci, provided the following update on Wednesday regarding the 6th grade move. The school committee has backed off on its plan to send Waterman’s 6th grade to Eden Park. From the email: Parents, Yesterday Deb Griefer visited Eden Park to see for herself the conditions of the [...]
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