The Role Of Play In Learning New Things
In the following video from Digital Media Research Hub, Katie Salen discusses the role of play in learning.
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Could The Arts Put The Steam Into STEM?
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. This is a good thing, as reading non-fiction requires certain skills not required when reading fiction. The result…
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12 Tips For Launching A Social Learning Group For Students
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…
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The Art & Science Of Reading In The 21st Century
Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms.
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(At Least) 15 Ways Twitter Is Digital Poison
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…
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100 Twitter Tips For Teachers
Twitter has become a staple in education at every level from teaching to learning, content to research, networking to news and curation.
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Chris Langan And The Application Of Thinking
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.
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Meet The Future Of Mobile Learning On YouTube
Whether you’re flipping your classroom, or learning from home, YouTube is an incredible source of mobile learning resources.
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Thinking About A Lack Of Thinking
Thoughtful people think about their thinking — the meaning of what they learn & the consequences of what they do.
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10 Future Technologies That Already Exist
While there’s always a “yeah, but” factor to new tech, it’s interesting to see the realization of what was not long ago science fiction.
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TeachThought’s 10 Most Popular Posts On Twitter In The Classroom
What Are TeachThought’s Most Popular Twitter Posts? TeachThought is officially ten weeks old (well, about 12 now), and to celebrate that milestone we’re putting together posts that reflect back on that time, while also acting as a kind of curation tool for some of the content you have found most helpful, or might have missed….
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52 Twitter Hashtags For The 21st Century
Here are 50 Twitter hashtags for the 21st century learner, by categories that are arranged by ideas that will continue to rise in importance.
