Research References | Beth Holland - 0 views
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Research Shows Students Learn Better When They Figure Things Out On Their Own - 0 views
Return to Sender -- THE Journal - 1 views
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For years school curriculums have emphasized top-down instruction, especially for topics like math and science. Learn the rules first — the theorems, the order of operations, Newton’s laws — then make a run at the problem list at the end of the chapter. Yet recent research has found that true experts have something at least as valuable as a mastery of the rules: gut instinct, an instantaneous grasp of the type of problem they’re up against. Like the ballplayer who can “read” pitches early, or the chess master who “sees” the best move, they’ve developed a great eye.
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Now, a small group of cognitive scientists is arguing that schools and students could take far more advantage of this same bottom-up ability, called perceptual learning
Media Literacy and Learning Commons in the Digital Age: Toward a Knowledge Model for Su... - 0 views
The Maker Movement in K-12 Education: A Guide to Emerging Research - Digital Education ... - 0 views
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curriculum to better prepare students for a working world that increasingly favored the technologically fluent
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Teachers observed that students were more engaged when using the Mac, and they saw the effect as potentially transformative
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teachers rarely lecture from the front of the classroom. Instead, they ask questions, then issue clear guidelines and expectations for students to meet. Either alone or in small groups, students research the topic on the Mac to come up with the information they need to answer each question
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The Big Disconnect - 0 views
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Research tells us that, at the most basic level, children’s social skills may be in decline from spending less face-to-face time and more time on screens.
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Middle school children leading digital lives pose a particular challenge.
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middle, and high school is how hungry they are for their teachers to teach them pro-social strategies for dealing with these difficult social dynamics
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Tattling vs Telling | Cyberbullying Research Center Blog - 0 views
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As we work with increasingly younger kids to educate them about the responsible use of technology, we find it extremely important to discuss how they should respond to being cyberbullied. Central to this conversation is covering the difference between “tattling” and “telling.”