Where Students Live Affects What They Need To Know
The value of ‘place’ in learning lies in its context: People seek to know things in order to do them, and these things are done in a ‘place’.
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6 Tips For Completing Schoolwork On The Go
Here are six tips to make students’ time more productive, so they can complete your schoolwork, reading, or studies while on the go.
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A Beginner’s Guide To Personalized Learning
In this graphic, Mia MacMeekin frames the idea of personalized learning around the who/what/where/why/when series of questions.
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Learning Is Different Than Education
Learning is different than education. Learning is driven by curiosity, self-directed & supported; the other is metered, led & caused.
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School Walls Talk: Leading Through Space Design
Leading space design will grow the school’s capacity for change, promote a healthy learning culture, and garner community support.
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8 Reflective Questions To Help Any Student Think About Their Learning
What’s the most important thing you learned today? Why do you think so? What can or should a person do with what they know?
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31 Surprising Facts About Learning
People hold onto beliefs shaped by early experiences and biases. The following list includes surprising facts about learning.
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How To Teach Students To Research Without Google
Scaffolding, encouraging discussion, modeling exemplars — here are a few ways to teach students how to research without Google.
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Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information.
Learning is an experience. It’s organic and perishable and turns over on itself constantly like a restless, sleeping animal.
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OPINION: The Cost Of Insisting What A Student Will Understand
Predicting learning outcomes is big business in education, but what is the cost of insisting what a student will understand and when they will understand it?
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What Is The Purpose Of A Question?
The source, frequency, and quality of questions from students are among the best data points to evaluate thinking in your classrooms.
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How The Activity Learning Theory Works
Students need incremental challenges they can engage with at a social level so the entire community of learners can collaborativelay meaning.
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12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, artifacts, credible sources, and thinking on relevant topics.
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The Power Of I Don’t Know
The power of “I don’t know” returns the learning to the student and restores the scale of understanding to a universe of knowledge.
