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How to Be Relevant in Our Students’ Lives | ASCD Inservice
As teachers, we all too often hear students asking, “When are we ever going to use this?” Unfortunately, there is sometimes little immediate connection between content and the real world, leading to students opting out and not paying attention.
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Professor Says College Students Should Be Taught How To Tweet - Business Insider
While this idea might not be entirely novel, it's coming from an interesting person. Lunsford is highly respected as an academic, and is also incredibly hip. She's blogged about the modern linguistic uses of the word "like." She has also taught at...
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Seriously. How Much Sleep Do You Really Need? | Edudemic
As most teachers are heading back to the classroom for the start of another school year, many are bemoaning the loss of something they’ve grown accustomed to over the summer: more sleep.
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How Open Badges Could Really Work In Education | Edudemic
Higher education institutions are abuzz with the concept of Open Badges. Defined as a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest, Open Badges are not only a hot topic as of late, but are also debated by some critics as th...
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I'm a Teaching Veteran -- Not a Dinosaur | Nancy Barile
A flipped learning guru from the west coast recently visited my school for an afternoon professional development session. He started his presentation by remarking about how impressed he was during his walk around our school building because "the f...
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How Emotional Connections Can Trigger Creativity and Learning | MindShift
Scientists are always uncovering new ways into how people learn best, and some of the most recent neuroscience research has shown connections between basic survival functions, social and emotional reactions to the world, and creative impulses.
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What factors go into determining how many Twitter followers you gain (and lose) each day? I was driven in part by Rand Fishkin's recent "mad scientist" experimentation that he touched on at MozCon. There, he noted that his tweets with images resul...
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Ten Medieval Inventions that Changed the World
Ten Inventions from the Middle Ages that have had lasting importance, even to the present-day. Learn more: Time and Clocks in the Middle Ages The Printing Press: As An Agent of Social Change The civil uses of gunpowder: demolishing, quarrying, ...
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The Top-10 Characteristics of Lousy Leaders - Michael Hyatt
If you look at the major news stories in business, politics, diplomacy, whatever, it’s pretty hard to miss that most of the crises we face are crises of leadership. I once worked for a man who couldn’t pull the trigger on a project, ever.
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The 3 C’s of Educational Leadership | Evolving Educators
The changing face of education means there is a change in educational leadership. To keep up with these changes, educational leaders need to engage in the 3 C’s of Educational Leadership: Connect, Contribute, Collaborate.
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Leaders are Learners | LeadToday
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy A leadership position is not a destination. No one should “arrive” at a leadership position and just sit tight. A leadership position does not make you a leader, it merely ...
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How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | MindShift
In his new book, “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens,” author Benedict Carey informs us that “most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong” and “rooted more in superstition tha...
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27 Ways To Respond When Students Don't Pay Attention
Our initial reaction when seeing the following infographic from Mia MacMeekin was to think about instructional design rather than classroom management.
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Beyond Knowing Facts, How Do We Get to a Deeper Level of Learning? | MindShift
As educators across the country continue to examine the best ways of teaching and learning, a new lexicon is beginning to emerge that describes one particular approach — deeper learning.
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From Distraction to Learning Tool: Mobile Devices in the Classroom -- Campus Technology
Once banned in the classroom, mobile devices are becoming more accepted as a teaching and learning tool.
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There is no perfect lesson, unit, or school any more than their can be a perfect song, flavor, or shade of blue. Every student is different.
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The Stages Of Education Technology
What’s Wrong With Education Technology? Mobile applications–or apps–have served an important role in the evolution of what’s possible in a classroom. Libraries and textbooks and teachers have been the traditional portals to information in education.
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Making Curation Easier With @IFTTT
There is simply no end to the flow of information available on the Internet. When it comes to trying to organize it and do something with it you may run into some challenges. I know I regularly am looking for ways to make that process better. Than...
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We need to start talking about digital overload for our children - The Globe and Mail
Out at a restaurant the other night, it happened again. I sat with two young parents who tugged an iPad out of their diaper bag and placed it before their fussing toddler. Angry Birds = Happy Child. Pouring some more wine, I silently disapproved, ...
Sunday, 7 September 2014
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