The White House Asks about Healthy Kid Apps
Posted byon March 10, 2010 at 03:02 PM ESTThis afternoon the First Lady announced the Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge — a contest with the USDA to challenge professional and amateur developers to come up with games that incorporate nutritional information and promote healthy living. From dance video games to nutrition mobile applications, we’re challenging designers to come up with the next big idea to make healthy living fun. The App Challenge is just one of the innovative ways that the First Lady is working to help kids lead active, healthy lives and end childhood obesity within a generation, as part of the nationwide Let’s Move! campaign.
Developer or not, we want to hear your ideas. This week, the White House is teaming up with GOOD to ask:
What kind of healthy kid app would you like to see developed?
Tell us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Some of the most interesting responses will be featured on the White House blog and on the GOOD blog, so stay tuned. And in case you missed it, take a look at your responses to last week’s question about a 21st century education.
Learn more about the challenge and submit an application by visiting AppsforHealthyKids.com.
Please note that the username, personal identifier or icon affiliated with responses may be posted.
The school that turned to Montessori to beat gangs
The words look so simple in a paper setting out the task ahead: "Change public face of Gorton Mount". But for a primary school
in the midst of an inner city gangland area, the reality takes a bit longer.
Gorton Mount primary school in Manchester is in one of the most deprived areas
of the country. It is characterised by "unemployment, high crime rates
– especially amongst the youth population where gang membership is high",
according to the school's own assessment.As she opens a drawer to find a piece of paper, the first few items
headteacher Carol Powell sees are two toy pistols. "We confiscate them
and don't give them back," she said. The school doesn't want its
children to associate with guns, even in toy form, because of where it might
lead.Against this background, Ms Powell embarked on her vision for the future,
throwing out the traditional methods of teachingand becoming the first
state school in the country to convert to the "Montessori method".
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