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"ATTENTION deficit hyperactivity disorder is now the most prevalent psychiatric illness of young people in America, affecting 11 percent of them at some point between the ages of 4 and 17. The rates of both diagnosis and treatment have increased so much in the past decade that you may wonder whether something that affects so many people can really be a disease. And for a good reason. Recent neuroscience research shows that people with A.D.H.D. are actually hard-wired for novelty-seeking - a trait that had, until relatively recently, a distinct evolutionary advantage. Compared with the rest of us, they have sluggish and underfed brain reward circuits, so much of everyday life feels routine and understimulating. To compensate, they are drawn to new and exciting experiences and get famously impatient and restless with the regimented structure that characterizes our modern world. In short, people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don't match the expectations of our contemporary culture."

"This is the third post in a series of posts I am sharing with you to help you better make the most out of Google Scholar. After we have learned how to effectively search Google Scholar and how to sift through its search results, today's resource features 7 important tips on how to easily find and access academic and scholarly articles. It is a sort of anatomy of how Google Scholar works and how to use each of its salient features. I find this document really helpful and can be used with students in class  to help them discover the potential of this academic search engine."

October 2, 2014 Ignite presentations hosted by Discovery Education in Winnipeg, MB

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"The humble question is an indispensable tool: the spade that helps us dig for truth, or the flashlight that illuminates surrounding darkness. Questioning helps us learn, explore the unknown, and adapt to change. That makes it a most precious "app" today, in a world where everything is changing and so much is unknown. And yet, we don't seem to value questioning as much as we should. For the most part, in our workplaces as well as our classrooms, it is the answers we reward -- while the questions are barely tolerated. To change that is easier said than done. Working within an answers-based education system, and in a culture where questioning may be seen as a sign of weakness, teachers must go out of their way to create conditions conducive to inquiry. Here are some suggestions (based on input from question-friendly teachers, schools, programs, and organizations) on how to encourage more questioning in the classroom and hopefully, beyond it."

Visual notes featuring tips for helping a student find the right book.

"Teachers are doing some incredible things right now. They're basically magicians. A typical teacher has to figure out how to turn an extremely small budget into an effective year-long learning experience. And they do it all with a too-small (we think) salary and typically using their own money. We think it's time for teachers to have a little fun. That's why we've created a fun little ongoing initiative we're calling #TeacherSelfie. Basically, it's your chance to show off yourself, your classroom, or any of your passions in life to the rest of the teachers around the world. In order to make this happen, we've created the hashtag #TeacherSelfie and are going to be monitoring it on both Twitter and Instagram. You'll find feeds from both of those social networks below. An important note: we obviously don't control what gets posted and who uses the hashtag so please don't be mad if random other people sometimes use it!"

"The concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is a familiar concept these days. Yet, the nature of Personal Learning Networks is evolving as the range of tools available to support them increases, and our rapport with those tools becomes more sophisticated. The aim of this post is to outline the changes that appear to be taking shape, and to offer some practical strategies for teachers to supercharge their Personal Learning Networks."