Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
Watch Teacher Greet Every Student With A Personalized Handshake Read More
North Carolina teacher Barry White Jr. greets every student with their own personalized handshake each day as they enter the classroom.
Why Brain-Based Learning Means Always Connecting Old Knowledge With New Read More
Connecting old knowledge helps students extend their established, stored memory patterns and categories to incorporate the new insights.
The Difference Between Instructivism, Constructivism, & Connectivism Read More
Connectivism is similar to constructivism. The difference lies in networks; rather than supplemental, they are primary sources.
When School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live In Read More
School Is Nothing Like The World Students Live In In 2020, the distinction between formal and informal learning is more
How Stress Changes A Student’s Brain: The Neurology Of ‘Pressure’ Read More
Stress cuts off students’ access to higher-level networks of higher-order thinking, logic, creative problem solving, and analytical judgment.
The Highest Result Of Education Is A Kind Of Tolerance Read More
The full measure of education may be the ability not simply to tolerate, but accept their own limits, and the limits of those around them.
Google Makes You Stupid If By Stupid You Mean Informed Read More
A Columbia University study is a salve for teachers worried that Google’s making them–and their students–stupid.
6 Targets To Teach The Way The Brain Learns Read More
Teaching how the brain learns engages students via tapping into factors that stimulate the brain, grab attention & set the stage for learning.