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in title, tags, annotations or urlGoogle Unveils Google Play for Education - 0 views
A Comprehensive List of Apps and Tools to Flip your Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views
Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift - 0 views
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“The real message is because attention is under siege more than it has ever been in human history, we have more distractions than ever before, we have to be more focused on cultivating the skills of attention,”
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If young students don’t build up the neural circuitry that focused attention requires, they could have problems controlling their emotions and being empathetic.
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“The circuitry for paying attention is identical for the circuits for managing distressing emotion,”
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Art Makes You Smart - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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A few years ago, however, we had a rare opportunity to explore such relationships when the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in Bentonville, Ark. Through a large-scale, random-assignment study of school tours to the museum, we were able to determine that strong causal relationships do in fact exist between arts education and a range of desirable outcomes.
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Students who, by lottery, were selected to visit the museum on a field trip demonstrated stronger critical thinking skills, displayed higher levels of social tolerance, exhibited greater historical empathy and developed a taste for art museums and cultural institutions.
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Students in the treatment group were 18 percent more likely to attend the exhibit than students in the control group.
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A List of All Educational Twitter Chats Teachers Should Know about - 0 views
How Does Project-Based Learning Work? | Edutopia - 0 views
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Have in mind what materials and resources will be accessible to the students. Next, students will need assistance in managing their time -- a definite life skill. Finally, have multiple means for assessing your students' completion of the project: Did the students master the content? Were they able to apply their new knowledge and skills? Many educators involve their students in developing these rubrics
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Here are steps for implementing PBL, which are detailed below: Start with the Essential Question Design a Plan for the Project Create a Schedule Monitor the Students and the Progress of the Project Assess the Outcome Evaluate the Experience
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Involve the students in planning; they will feel ownership of the project when they are actively involved in decision making.
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Psychologist Offers Insight on Bullying and How to Prevent It - 0 views
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October is National Bullying Prevention Month, an annual campaign launched in 2006 by the Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights to raise awareness of and prevent bullying. Bullying is aggressive, repeated and intentional behavior designed to show an imbalance of power.
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In elementary school, children who bully others often have difficulty regulating their emotions and do so in reaction to peer rejection or peer exclusion.
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To prevent youth bullying, prevention efforts must teach children and adolescents individual emotion regulation skills, how to foster peer acceptance and ways to counter any detrimental effects of exposure to violence in their homes and communities. We must recognize that schools play a critical role in reducing these behaviors.
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4 Important Apps for A Paperless Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views
(Re)Defining Student Engagement | Reading By Example - 0 views
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I call on all school leaders, myself included, to put aside our biases and misconceptions regarding student engagement, as we engage in our own learning experiences during our frequent visits to classrooms.
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Let our student actions and dispositions guide our professional assessments.
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We in education talk so much about engagement in concert with terms like “collaboration”, “technology”, and “passion”. Is this where the best learning takes place? Sometimes, maybe even often, but certainly not always.
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