Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.
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Learning
Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
8 Of The Most Common Sources Of Formative Assessment Data
The usefulness of student data is generally proportional to the frequency with which it’s collected. Here are eight sources of formative assessment data.
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6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom
Deeper Learning is a set of student outcomes that includes mastery of essential academic content, thinking critically, and solving complex problems.
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Where Has The Joy Of Learning Gone?
When joy and comfort are absent, students’ brains are distanced from effective information processing and long-term memory storage.
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Learning Theories: Adaptive Control Of Thought
ACT-R is a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to produce cognition.
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10 Simple Ways To Engage In Lifelong Learning
Lifelong learning preserves an individual’s desire to obtain new knowledge outside of the formal education system.
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4 Things Every Student Should Do Every Day
From asking questions to feeling a sense of progress, here’s a quick list of things that every student should do every day.
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What Is The Taxonomy Of Significant Learning?
The Taxonomy Of Significant Learning is useful for making design considerations for student learning experiences.
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Stop Saying Learning Styles Don’t Work
Somehow, the idea that one student learns best by listening and another while doing jumping jacks has come to define learning styles.
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A Game To Help Students Understand The Maker Learning Process
This game can help students better understand the mindset, ethos, and process of maker learning in and out of the classroom.
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Curriculum Planning Tips For Any Grade Level Or Content Area
By exposing students to critical content over and over again in increasingly complex ways, spiraling is a flexible and potent curriculum mapping strategy.
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23 Maker Learning Reflection Questions For Students
What new skills have you learned? Which existing skills did you practice? Which skills were most useful to you?
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