How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process
Gamification can clarify not just success and failure but the nuance of student performance in every step of the learning process.
Learning
Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
What Is Remote Learning? A Definition For Teachers And Students
What is remote learning? Put simply, it is a temporary move from face-to-face learning in a physical classroom to learning online.
The Difference Between Synchronous And Asynchronous Learning
While there are always exceptions and variations, the overarching theme of Asynchronous Learning is independence.
10 Principles Of Proficiency-Based Learning
In proficiency-based learning, student achievement is evaluated against common learning objectives pursued through flexible pathways.
5 Teaching Strategies For Deep Learning In Virtual Environments
Here are 5 specific and practical strategies, along with associated tools, that promote deep learning in virtual and physical classrooms.
5 Strategies For Teaching Students To Use Metacognition
Teaching strategies for student metacognition include modeling it, defining it, and clarifying how it helps them beyond the classroom.
What Are The Primary Human Drives?
In outlining this theory, Rifkin provides four fundamental human needs culminating in a ‘first drive’: the drive to belong.
11 Personalized Learning Strategies That Work
A choice board is a simple tool that can provide scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s taxonomy, support multiple learning styles, and more.
How Learning In Your Classroom Is Different Than Learning In The Real-World
In school, the learning is externally prompted by a ‘quality judge.’ rather than curiosity, genius, or intended application.
The Underlying Assumptions Of A Curriculum
One underlying assumption of a curriculum is that it’s comprised of knowledge and skills that are both knowable and worth knowing.
25 Things Tests Can’t Measure In Students
Humility, curiosity, creativity, resilience, compassion, and 20 other things that tests can’t measure in students.
An Example Of Exponential Growth For Students
A vampire has to feed on a human every month. How many months would it take for the entire population of the planet to become vampires?