Why Emotion Is More Important Than Understanding
The need to belong, the desire to be understood, and the instinct to understand are universal human emotions that mean everything.
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How Technology Can Increase Rigor In The Classroom
As with any instructional tool, ed tech is critical to increasing rigor in the classroom. Here are 5 ways technology can be used to do so.
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Why Students Should Still Write Research Papers
8 Reasons Why Students Should Still Write Research Papers by Dorothy Mikuska There are plenty of reasons why the research paper is not assigned. They pretty much boil down to: perceived irrelevance of the assignment in light of modern publishing and technology widespread plagiarism teachers buried alive grading 10-page papers from 150 students (that’s 1500 pages…
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Making Your Classroom More Like A Playground
Making Your Classroom Work More Like A Playground by TeachThought Staff Should classrooms be more like playgrounds? The playground is a place of whimsy, creativity, cognitive “ease,” and social interaction. It’s accessible, open, and fun. There may be some room for this type of thinking in a classroom, yes? Embedded in this thinking are a lot of the ideas…
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How Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research
Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D. I specialize in an odd subject—research. I teach students to select a subject area, pick a topic, craft a question, design a prospectus, follow through on the plans, adapt to obstacles and “interesting” findings, organize results, and create an appropriate outcome that matches the content and…
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Misunderstanding The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Framework
Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’
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Why Students Don’t Always Transfer What They Seem To Understand
Conditional knowledge includes knowing when and why to apply various actions. This is crucial to the ongoing transfer of learning.
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Research-Based? When A Lab Is Not A Classroom
Laboratory neuroscience research cannot be proof of what will happen in a classroom or with any one student.
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The Changing Role Of The Teacher In Personalized Learning Environments
The changing uses of technology require that teachers adapt their methods of instruction to support student-directed learning.
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What A Struggling School Looks Like On Paper
What A Struggling School Looks Like On Paper by Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Ed note: This is part 2 of Grant’s series on Teacher Effectiveness ratings. In the previous post I looked closely at the data on teacher effectiveness for six different high schools. In this follow-up post we look more closely at a range of data…
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5 Anchors For Using Technology To Teach Reading
Teachers are using technology to teach reading, arguing that interactive video games provide the skills that students need to be able to read.
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How I Learned Differentiation
Time, experience, and others’ wisdom helped me see the real problems in how I learned differentiation.
