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Writers on writing - 0 views

  • I write to teach myself what I already know. Duane Alan Hahn
  • When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.  Samuel Lover
  • We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. Somerset Maugham
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  • Writing is its own reward. Henry Miller
  • Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. Jules Renard
  • The first step to becoming a better writer is believing your own experience is worth writing about. Pet
  • We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. Anais Nin
  • The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing. Jean Malaquais
  • Writing energy is like anything else. The more you put in, the more you get out
  • The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. Edwin Schlossberg
  • Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance. Stanley Schmidt
  • Writing is thinking on paper. William Zinsser
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TeacherTube Videos - Audacity Basics - 0 views

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    "Audacity Basics"
Diane Gusa

leading and learning: Experience and Education -John Dewey 1938 - 3 views

  • The primary responsibility of educators is to assist shaping the experience by providing environing conditions and to utilize the surroundings to build up experiences that interact with the personal desires of he students.
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      Including blogs in the educational experience provides such an environment.
  • Dewey saw the learning process as a continuous spiral linking past experiences with the present. T
  • A worthwhile experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative and provides a desire to learn sufficiently intense for students to apply effort and to persevere through difficulties.
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  • Dewey believed there needed to be an intimate relationship between experience and education and that students had to construct their own learning.
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      Inviting a student to talk about what is really important to them (and does not importance arise out of our past experiences?) - telling their truth about themselves to others is the experience that arouses, strengthens, and provides the desire to learn.
  • This is the challenge of creative teaching. I
  • Teachers need to be on the alert to see what attitudes and habits are being developed and this requires that the teacher has some ideas of what is going on in the mind of the learner. The teacher is an important part of any learning experience.
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      Student-centered learning does not mean an absent teacher - which can be a person or embodied in a book.
Diane Gusa

Curriculum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    "As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults"
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Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement | Edutopia - 0 views

  • A teacher in one of my workshops said, "When my students and I are in the flow, then I don't feel like I have to work as hard." I heartily agree.
  • Create an Emotionally Safe Classroom
  • Create an Intellectually Safe Classroom
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  • Practice Journal or Blog Writing to Communicate with Students
  • Create a Culture of Explanation Instead of a Culture of the Right Answer
  • Teach Self-Awareness About Knowledge
  • Use Questioning Strategies That Make All Students Think and Answer
  • Include peer evaluation as part of the feedback they receive.
Diane Gusa

Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Notebook Method: How Pen and Paper Can Trans... - 1 views

  • It starts with the simplest possible tools…pen and paper.
  • The idea is simple… Buy a sturdy college-ruled notebook dedicated to the relevant class. (I use the 100 page, 1 subject, college-ruled Stasher by Roaring Spring, but many people also swear by the Black n’ Red.) Buy a good pen. (Nothing beats a black uniball micro 0.5mm.) Take your notebook and pen and go to the most relaxing, meditative, non-distracting place possible. The deep stacks of the library is okay. Hiking 30 minutes into the woods or onto the dunes overlooking a windswept springtime beach is even better. Spend 1 – 3 hours working out your thinking on the task at hand in the notebook. Spend the last 20 minutes carefully summarizing your results on a clean page that you mark with the date and a title.
  • Writing down your thoughts forces you to clarify what you’re thinking and confront ambiguities or inconsistencies
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  • You can’t check e-mail using a spiral-bound notebook
  • Paper facilitates creative thinking
  • requires deep creative thinking.
Diane Gusa

Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Heidegger with Hefeweizen: Rethinking the Power ... - 0 views

  • the context in which you do academic work is extremely important, yet most of us give it little consideration…
  • I introduced the idea of adventure studying
  • seeking the unusual and mentally-stimulating over the standard and easy — you’ll reap benefits in two crucial areas: the sophistication of your understanding, and, more importantly, your enjoyment of student life.
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    "the setting for your academic work is as important as your methods. "
Diane Gusa

Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Adventure Studying: An Unconventional New Approa... - 0 views

  • Conventional wisdom says: studying happens on campus, or, if you’re feeling particularly crazy, maybe in a Starbucks near campus. And that’s it. It is supposed to be a grind that takes place in in the same old boring libraries surrounded by the same old boring people.
  • adventure studying.
  • Our minds crave novelty
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  • paper writing in novel environments
  • be more creative
  • form stronger comprehension
  • Just because it’s “tradition” to spend the week before exams holed up in the library in some macho display of academic self-flagellation, this doesn’t mean that you have to follow this path.
  • If you take up the adventure studying challenge — and I hope you do
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