DOGOnews is a great site for teachers and students. Teachers can create lesson plans using news articles, create reading lists & recommend books, add your favorite websites, create an online class calendar, and engage students with social learning. Kids can create your custom avatar, earn points and badges, follow other DOGO users, bookmark & share news, books, and movies, express your opinions about news, books, and movies.
I chose this the article “How Long Can You Resist A Marshmallow?” as a great text to share with my nephew Isaac because he loves marshmallows. The article talks about the “Stanford Marshmallow” test, children between the ages of 4-6 were invited individually and seated at a table inside a room that had a single marshmallow on a plate. They were told that if they could resist the treat for 20 minutes, they would be rewarded with another. What they observed was that only about a third of the kids were able to wait out of the 20 minutes and that the older the child was, the better his/her resistance to power.My nephew read the article and he thought it was very interesting. He asked me if I could do the test to him. After the test he told me that it was hard for him because he loves marshmallows but when I told him that I would give him another one he told me that it was worth the wait.
Many years later, the scientist followed up with the parents of the now-grown kids with a detailed questionnaire. What he found was that those that had been able to resist the marshmallow for the full 20 minutes, were thought to be more competent by their parents, than the others. Things got even more interesting a few years later, when he discovered that the marshmallow resisters all scored an average of 210 points higher on their Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores than the rest of the group. Not only that, they were also better at planning and, handling stress.
Here is the video
http://youtu.be/x3S0xS2hdi4
This site is really interesting. I like how you can see students reviews for books and movies by grade level. That could be useful for giving us as a teacher an idea of what our own students might be interested in. I also think that the idea of having a class site is cool, but I just wish that they would have given more of a preview as to how that would look like.
This experiment is really interesting. In the video it is great to be able to observe the different coping mechanisms and reasoning children use when choosing whether or not to eat the treat. The relationships and trends you provided about the children who resisted eating the marshmallow were really fascinating. I wouldn’t think that type of self control modeled at such a young age would have correlation to greater achievement on the SAT’s. It was also a great idea to let your cousin try the marshmallow experiment.
-Megan