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BBC - Earth - Your life on earth - 0 views

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bbc interactive science time change

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  • Jill Bergeron on 26 Jan 15
     
    This shows how life on Earth has changed during your lifetime. It's super interesting.
Jill Bergeron

BBC News - Finland: Typing takes over as handwriting lessons end - 1 views

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      Love the last line of this article!
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Seven ways to give better feedback to your students | Teacher Network | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • too much praise can convey a sense of low expectation and, as a result, can be demotivating.
  • Teenagers care a lot about what their peers think of them. Constructive feedback given in front of others, even if it is well-intended, can be read as a public attack on them and their ability. This can lead to students developing a fear of failure and putting up a front.
  • This is similar to the technique he calls the whisper correction – the feedback technically takes place in public, but the pitch and tone of voice is designed to be heard only by the individual receiving it.
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  • A recent study found that being positively compared to others can lead to narcissistic behaviour. This sort of comparison can also reduce motivation and result in lower confidence, emotional control, academic performance and increased anxiety.
  • The more detailed and specific your feedback is, the better, to remove any ambiguity. Rather than “good work”, say “The way you did X was really good.”
  • Praising effort instead of intelligence increases intrinsic motivation and provides a template for students to follow next time.
  • In this study, 86% of children who had been praised for their natural ability asked for information about how their peers did on the same task. Only 23% of children who had been praised for effort asked for this type of feedback, with the vast majority of them asking for feedback about how they could do better.
  • But you should aim for a combination of open and closed questions in your feedback, along with statements. Closed statements are useful for conveying key information and keeping the conversation focused.
  • Any feedback that doesn’t lead to a change in behaviour change is redundant – there must be a point to it. What do you want them to do differently? What are they going to do after the conversation to improve? The more detailed and specific the action points, the better.
  • Jill Bergeron on 21 Nov 16
     
    This article gives tangible tips on how to improve feedback to students.
Jill Bergeron

I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. - Kyle Wiens - Harvard Business R... - 1 views

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grammar harvard business review English code coding

shared by Jill Bergeron on 15 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • I have a “zero tolerance approach” to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid.
  • Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Extenuating circumstances aside (dyslexia, English language learners, etc.), if job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too,” their applications go into the bin.
  • Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn’t make grammar unimportant.
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  • Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your physical absence. And, for better or worse,
  • people judge you if you can’t tell the difference between their, there, and they’re.
  • If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use “it’s,” then that’s not a learning curve I’m comfortable with.
  • I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing — like stocking shelves or labeling parts.
  • programmers who pay attention to how they construct written language also tend to pay a lot more attention to how they code.
  • Jill Bergeron on 15 Jan 14
     
    What grammar indicates about a person's competencies.
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