31 Surprising Facts About Learning
People hold onto beliefs shaped by early experiences and biases. The following list includes surprising facts about learning.
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Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
Video is a pedagogical goldmine. What ‘viewing comprehension strategies’ can students use during and after watching videos in class?
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4 Steps Towards A More Personal Classroom
Want to get started with personalized learning? Do you know where they live? What they love? What they believe about themselves?
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The Genius Hour Design Cycle: A Process For Planning
Some projects will clearly take longer than you have available, others are too large in scale or rely on the involvement of too many people.
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Interview: Want Better Readers? Write Twice As Much With 1/2 The Rules
“We tend to think about writing as a solitary activity. But it’s not really,” Graham said. “We’re always writing for an audience.”
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5 Things Teachers Can Do To Help Students Make Meaning
5 Things Teachers Can Do To Help Students Make Meaning contributed by Kelsey Skaggs, MIND Research Institute Rigor gets a bad reputation. It’s that thing that makes life difficult and uncomfortable. Apply it to a person and they can be seen as inflexible or unyielding. However, bring a certain type of rigor into the classroom and…
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How One Principal Turned School Culture Around—Twice
Changing the culture of a Title 1 school with approximately 2,000 students – in a large, public district – would be no easy feat.
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50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think
Using the right question at the right time can not evaluate understanding but can help students think about what they think.
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34 Free Resources To Learn Music Online
34 Free Resources To Learn Music Online by TeachThought Staff Music has a powerful effect on people young and old — just listening can affect mood, memory, sleep, and can inspire a sense of belonging or feeling understood. However, scientific research has proven that the process of actually making music has a significant impact on…
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When They Don’t Want Privacy: Why Students Should Study Social Media
Understanding social media is more than using it in the same way that understanding physics is more than simply being affected by gravity.
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Why Assessments Don’t Really Measure Understanding
If you can show all assessment results, learners may realize that understanding is evasive, evolving, and as dynamic as their imaginations.
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Transfer Of Understanding In Math And Reading
The problem: transfer of understanding is poor. Students do not understand that the long-term and bottom-line goal of education is transfer.
