Learning

What's the difference between personalized learning and individualized learning? Personalized learning can require 'more work' and a flexible curriculum.

A feedback loop in learning is a cause-effect sequence where data (often in the form of an ‘event’) is responded to based on recognition of an outcome.

Rather than a fixed body of knowledge, science is a dynamic, spiraling, evolving, inherently playful process that promotes creativity and critical thinking.

Empathy focuses on a mutual and shared emotional experience, whereas sympathy moves more swiftly from feeling with to feeling for.

Saying you've 'seen homeschooling' is like saying you've seen salad or photographs or the internet. Homeschooled in what way? Learning what and how?

Blended learning combines face-to-face teaching and online instruction. Ideally, each will complement the other by using its particular strength.

We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.

By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on...

Killing a learner's natural curiosity doesn't happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in some rare cases even that isn't long enough.

It's not merely the closed-mindedness of fixed belief that can hold students back: it's also the convenience of habit, the laziness of stereotyped thinking.

This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.

Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to advance, learn, change, or grow, curiosity is simply a biological and neurological reaction to stimulus.