My 7 year old really did not want the summer vacation to end. He has no interest in school. His 2-3 good friends come over and he goes over, so he doesn't need school to meet with them. He keeps complaining about how boring it is in the classroom and how he doesn't want to do all these boring things like to color, cut or glue. Not to mention read or write.
Considering how smart he is this is very sad.
We are talking about a child who knew all the alphabet by the age of 18 months... Yes, this w… Continue
Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on September 14, 2009 at 5:08am —
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http://ortals.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/schoolsweat/
3 kids at school. A new and promising school year. Some thoughts to start with.
Kid #1 will spend 38 hours at school, 5 days a week, an average of 7.6 hours per day, of those 8 breaks adding up to one hour recess time. She will be studying, if I am not mistaken, 12 or 13 topics. She goes on to study math in an afternoon program for additional 3.5 hours. She is 1… Continue
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Games development is slowly becoming a central and one of the largest global industries. Right after our basic human needs, where satisfaction and esteem start, and self-actualization follows, right there you will find games. It’s not news that games promise entertainment, and looking at cubs playing you can easily deduct the relationship between play and development, bu… Continue
My latest blog post is titled "Facebook Therapy for Teens.
You are invited to comment here - or there.
It starts with "I have a privilege. I am connected to so many young people, my kids age, around the world, and basically invited to peek into their lives. I am not involved. I dare not speak. But I look and listen and try to grasp their reality. I have an opportunity my parents never had."
and goes on with...
"I… Continue
Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on June 7, 2009 at 12:11pm —
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Which is it? A learning facilitator or a teacher? Which of those would better serve the future of education? The future of today’s students? ....
My full blog post is here:
http://ortals.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/facilitatorteacher/
and it is following the blog post by our member, WMChamberlain here : http://attheteachersde… Continue
Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on May 18, 2009 at 9:26am —
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Apparently – the wrong thing, according to a recent study conducted by Prof. Ofra Mayseless and Dr. Miri Scharf from University of Haifa in Israel. The large study, conducted over a representative sample of 3500 Israeli-Jewish students, 8th graders and 11th graders, showed that homework in… Continue
I read Mark Zuckerberg's blog titled "On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information" and thought.
I remember a time when I regretted that my phone number appeared on the printed phone directory. Once the directory was printed and circulated there was nothing I could do to change it, delete it, retrieve it or make it go away. Hundreds of thousands of people had this private information at their disposal.
I w… Continue
This is an excerpt from my latest blog post, following yesterday's general elections in Israel.
"Following the results of yesterday’s general elections in Israel, I have some reflections on democracy. Especially our own democracy.
Israel is a young state. Only 60 years old, it is not surprising that it is still searching for the right method of political order, or governance. Very clear on the fact that it is this version or another of a democracy, a rule of the people, I keep hearing the voic… Continue
Last week I found myself watching a lecture online for a whole hour, I admit, for the first time in my life.
It's not new- it is from the "Educause Learning Initiative", a conference held in January 2008. Yet it's a lecture I would probably watch several more times.
The lecture is titled: "… Continue
Two days ago I sat down to write a story for my kids. I do this sometimes, and let them in the process, either joining the writing or illustrating the story, and it's a perfectly fun therapeutic activity. So far I wrote several stories and two books (not for publishing, rather for our drawer...).
The trigger for the latest story was an encounter at the public library. A strange woman heard my youngest son read. She asked me how old he is. I said he is 6.5 years old and she commented immediately… Continue
I chose to show above a clip of Ohel-Shem High School's TIMEMUN 2006 Iranian ambassador's (Eyal Balicer) speech. I think it's pretty impressive.
My daughter has joined her school's delegates to the 2009 MUN. Their school will produce two delegations - for Iran and for Austria. This seems like a fantastic project and a perfect opportunity to learn the so needed global listening. Continue
Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on November 3, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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Watching this clip and the virtual worlds featured in it I missed a heart bit thinking that perhaps we are late in this race to walk education along the same route as our environment. Are we? Continue
After 4 years at school, where homework and studies were a torture for him, we got him back this year.
My son, who was diagnosed as a gifted ADD 2 years ago, had to take Ritalin in order to pass the official exam, which allows him in the special class for the gifted.
Let me tell you, it was worth it!
We got the kid back. His joy of knowledge has awakened and we are not even two weeks in school. "It's interesting", he is singing while spreading documents, dictionaries and encyclopedias around him… Continue
This is not the name of a new web site. Nor a movie. This is really what parents are suffering from when their kids go surfing.
I am a parent myself. I know this scare. I am the mother who followed the nanny through the playgrounds and wouldn't let her daughter go by bus before she was 13.
Yet, when it comes to the web, I have a lot more confidence. I didn't even know why, until I spoke to my daughter yesterday.
-Are you aware of cyber safety rules?, I asked.
-Didn't study them at scho… Continue
Jeff Pulver is an international seasoned business man, who is also a social networking addict. He has almost 5000 contacts on Facebook.
Two months ago I met Jeff at one of his Social Networking Breakfast, I think it was the first one he did in Tel-Aviv. The event was organized via Facebook. To prepare for the event Jeff sent to people the following video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1TfAJoVlo&eurl=http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/2008_02.html ). The idea, if I am to simplify it, is… Continue
Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on April 9, 2008 at 12:19pm —
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Visit this link: Hillel School Purim Party Invitation
You choose a mask (right tab), than color its area using the color palette (left tab).
The game-online-invitation was developed and donated by Netica
Isn't it fun? Continue
Added by Or-Tal Kiriati on March 17, 2008 at 8:30am —
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