How The iPad Can Promote The Development Of Non-Cognitive Skills
Recent studies show that non-cognitive skills might be as important – or more so – as cognitive skills in determining educational outcomes.
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Research Tools For Students To Diversify Their Approach To Data Seeking
Research Tools For Students To Diversify Their Approach To Data Seeking by Susan Oxnevad first appeared (under a different title) on gettingsmart.com Why do so many students choose Wikipedia when asked to find information on the Internet? I believe the answer is that Wikipedia is like the McDonalds of the Internet, you can always find it and you …
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A Primer For Mixing Introverts & Extroverts In The Classroom
How To Mix Introverts & Extroverts In The Classroom by Christi Wilson There has been a tremendous amount of research on the biological differences in how the brain works. Within these studies, researchers have discovered that there are in fact two distinct personality types: introverts and extroverts. One thing is clear: Teaching introverts is different….
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Public Participation In The Arts Data Reflects Digital Shift
Public Participation In The Arts Data Reflects Digital Shift The National Endowment for the Arts has released data from the 2012 Survey for Public Participation in the Arts, and there are some interesting trends. More than 70% of American adults accessed electronic media, 1 in 4 adults now share photography online (see Instagram and facebook), and…
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10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking
Begin a story that incorporates whatever happens to be on your assigned photo. The next student continues the story, incorporating their photo, and so on.
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How I Approach Global Learning In My Classroom
How I Approach Global Learning In My Classroom by Neven Valev, Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University As the world becomes ever more connected, many universities and high schools have made efforts to “globalize” their curriculum. That is a worthy goal but achieving it is not easy. Developing global content is time consuming for…
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Why I Hate School But Love Education
Why I Hate School But Love Education That “school,” as it is, could be improved isn’t a new argument. How to make those improvements to revise our “systems” of learning in light of modern technology access and cultural patterns is why organizations like TeachThought, Edutopia, and so many others exist. With so many talented teachers…
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An Infographic That Summarizes Twitter For Teachers
We’ve got a guide to twitter hashtags for education that helps aggregate some of the must-know twitter tidbits. And of course, cybraryman has especially useful twitter resources as well. But there is something approachable about the following infographic from USC Rossier School of Education’s online teaching degree that makes it the kind of thing you…
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A Framework For Student Motivation In A Blended Classroom
…Nonetheless, the above framework can help support the teacher in a blended classroom in promoting student motivation
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Teaching American History By Examining Our Collective Failures
by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher & Learnist Evangelist Last week I answered a Quora question about why history should be taught “instead of something more practical.” What could be “more practical” than history? History defines us as a culture, unites us and divides us in turn, tells the story of hegemony, opportunity, change, and…
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A Second Look At Questioning In The eLearning Environment
Questioning In The eLearning Environment by Rosa Fattahi, WizIQ As discussed in A Primer in Effective Questioning, Part I, it is important that traditional and eLearning teachers employ a variety of question types that address a range of intellectual skills. Questions should not only be used to assess student comprehension of the material, but also…
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Those Who Can’t, Teach
Those Who Can’t Teach implies that the field is full of professional failures who bring that non-performance to the classroom.
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