Though we don’t often recognize it, chemistry defines nearly every element of our everyday lives. From the reactions that fuel the sun to the biology of our bodies to the technology in our gadgets, chemistry is at the heart of everything we do and is the central science that unites biology, physics, geology, astronomy, medicine,…
Student bloggers develop crucial skills with language, tone their critical thinking muscles, and understand their relationship to the world.
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In the following video from Digital Media Research Hub, Katie Salen discusses the role of play in learning.
The Common Core has emphasized the practical nature of education, and rightly so in many cases. As a result of its emphasis on practical education, for example, students are reading more non-fiction now in the elementary grades. Â This is a good thing, as reading non-fiction requires certain skills not required when reading fiction. Â The result…
Social learning has always been a staple of education since Piaget, Thorndike, Vygotsky, and countless others before them began exploring how people learn. At its most basic level, this idea can be reduced to the need to socialize thinking, and experiment through interaction, play, and authentic, self-driven performance. In 12 Tips For Supporting Social Collaboration Jane Hart from Center for…
Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.Â
The Problem Twitter used to be a simple micro-blogging service to allow brief messaging, content sharing and aggregation through hashtags, and social conversations. But with its incredible success comes a price: everything. Literally everything. According the infographic from cabletv.com/#blametwitter, there are more than 233 million tweets per day. A little math will tell you that…
Twitter has become a staple in education at every level from teaching to learning, content to research, networking to news and curation.
Chris Langan was profiled in Malcolm Gladwell’s book as “the world’s smartest man.” The former bouncer has an IQ measure between 195 and 210.
Whether you’re flipping your classroom, or learning from home, YouTube is an incredible source of mobile learning resources.
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