Fun Website with Helpful Studying Tools for your Kids!

http://www.dannythedragon.com/childrens-book/helpful-tips-to-encourage-learning-in-your-children/

   This website not only offers helpful tools and tips for instilling better learning in your kids, but also has plenty of interactive, educational games to keep your little ones busy! According to the site:

"Play board games to stimulate an interest in learning. Not only are they tons of fun, but they help your child develop his reading skills and practice following rules."

    Not only are board games fun, with our new technologically dependent generation, there are plenty of computer games as well. I do not insist that your child sits and stairs at the computer screen for hours on end, but introducing them to something fun and different on such devices may promote a better learning environment for them. This could also be a great alternative for younger children. Instead of them watching some of the most common educational videos like "Baby Einstein" which have the intent to be interactive, online games could be another option, and get them excited in learning in a new way.

   If anyone has the opportunity to check out this website and search around, let me know what you think.

New ABC Series: Jamie Olivers Food Revolution

   If this doesn't make you want to immediately pack your kids lunch I don't know what does. Jamie Oliver is most well known for being on the Food Network Channel and often times promotes healthy, garden grown food. If anyone has gotten around to watching this show, it does show somethings that one would not expect. There are so many unhealthy, packaged, process foods available for our children in schools. This not only could factor in on their nutritional health, but it may also pay a toll on how certain children learn and perform in school.
  
   We all know that your brain needs the proper nutrition to function throughout the day. This can have an effect on perhaps a children's test taking abilities or maybe their athletic performances after school. The intentions of this show is to not bash every school featured because often times it is far beyond the control of its administrators. It may involve budgetting, school population, etc. This show does like to bring to light how we should promote a healthier lifestyle for our children.

Cheating Crisis in American Schools

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132376&page=1

       A primetime special on ABC news had claimed that we may have a new crisis in our educational facilities, cheating. Is this really something new, or has technology just made it more assessible? In my opinion not only has computer technology inhibited plagarism, but it has made it easier for faculty, teachers, and administrators pinpoint who is in fact cheating.

      According to the above article, a 2002 confidential survey claimed that out of 12,000 high school students, 74 percent admitted cheating on an examination at least once in the past year. When speaking about cheating with papers or short answers one may tend to think about plagarism or using famous internet resources to skim by the actual intensities of real work. In opposition, when cheating on an examination through technology, I personally think cell phones are the main source of this.

      Do you think that technology has been more beneficial in the way that teachers and administrators now have easier access to finding students cheating? After all, if student's understand how simple it is for teachers to decipher cheating hopefully it could remind them to steer clear of such actions. In order for this mindset to occur, teachers and administrators need to make more of a point to address this.

      Did anyone see this special or read about it, any thoughts?