How To Help Students Learn From Anything
What/who is the most compelling, ongoing catalyst for helping students learn in your classroom? If it’s the teacher, you’re in trouble.
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Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
In Defense Of Absolute Literacy
We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.
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Student-Centered Learning Requires Adjustments Of Perspective
Education is at its strongest when learners are at the center of the process and can exercise their choices about what happens.
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The TeachThought Dictionary: Learning Models & Technology
A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: An ongoing index of emerging learning models, theories, and technology for progressive teaching.
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Why People Play Video Games
Gamers often throw around “escapism” when talking about their hobby, but this is a hollow explanation for what motivates us to play games.
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11 Ways To Reduce Creativity In Your Classroom
It’s not merely the closed-mindedness of fixed belief that can hold students back: it’s also the convenience of habit, the laziness of stereotyped thinking.
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How Games Naturally Promote A Growth Mindset
In a growth mindset, there are larger factors than the outcome. Progress and growth are acknowledged as valuable in the learning process.
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How To Play Outside: 50 Things For ‘Digital Kids’ To Do
So you’ve been told to play outside, and you’re not sure what to do. There’s no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and the sun’s glaring on your iPad.
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What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs?
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a theoretical framework comprising a tiered model of human needs often depicted as a pyramid.
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A Troublesome Contradiction Between Transparency & Learning Innovation
Learning produces long-term and often invisible results–few of which are illuminated with the most common learning outcomes and artifacts.
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What Is A KWL Chart?
A KWL chart is a graphic organizers that students use before, during, and after learning to activate prior knowledge and reflect on learning.
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The Empowering Benefits Of Social-Emotional Learning
Replacing mindsets of fear and judgment with inquiry and compassion when potential is limited can have exponential effects on learning.
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