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Jill Bergeron

TEDxMarinette Talk - Why Antibullying Approaches Need to be Scrapped | The Hero Constru... - 0 views

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    Be a hero, rather than not being a bully.
Jill Bergeron

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

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      Mitra's experiment- what will kids do with a computer?
  • “If you put a computer in front of children and remove all other adult restrictions, they will self-organize around it,” Mitra says, “like bees around a flower.”
  • “The bottom line is, if you’re not the one controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well.”
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  • Theorists from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi to Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori have argued that students should learn by playing and following their curiosity.
  • The study found that when the subjects controlled their own observations, they exhibited more coordination between the hippocampus and other parts of the brain involved in learning and posted a 23 percent improvement in their ability to remember objects. “The bottom line is, if you’re not the one who’s controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well,” says lead researcher Joel Voss, now a neuroscientist at Northwestern University.
  • A similar study at UC Berkeley demonstrated that kids given no instruction were much more likely to come up with novel solutions to a problem.
Gayle Cole

Don't Let Google Drive Leave Tire Marks on Your Lesson Plans - 0 views

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    Don't Let Google Drive Leave Tire Marks on Your Lesson Plans http://t.co/isiwkWFBtt via @plpnetwork Other tips for #GAFE paperless classrms?
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    Don't Let Google Drive Leave Tire Marks on Your Lesson Plans http://t.co/isiwkWFBtt via @plpnetwork Other tips for #GAFE paperless classrms?
Gayle Cole

MathTimeAttack! for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store - 1 views

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    If you have children learning math facts my husband made an app for that. MathTimeAttack! https://t.co/KPtzWAflYn
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    If you have children learning math facts my husband made an app for that. MathTimeAttack! https://t.co/KPtzWAflYn
Gayle Cole

Resources and Downloads for Collaborative Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Download these helpful discussion guide resources for collaborative learning: http://t.co/0K22WqbOJh #edchat #edu
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    Download these helpful discussion guide resources for collaborative learning: http://t.co/0K22WqbOJh #edchat #edu
Gayle Cole

The Nueva School - SEL - 0 views

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    suggested by Adair
Gayle Cole

Play on Purpose: Fun Forts - 0 views

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    suggested by Adair
Gayle Cole

Institute for SEL - 0 views

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    suggested by Adair
Gayle Cole

My Daughter's Homework Is Killing Me - Karl Taro Greenfeld - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • Memorization, not rationalization
  • from Pacific Palisades, California,
  • October 2013 My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week Karl Taro Greenfeld Sep 18 2013, 8:24 PM ET
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  • We have 11 algebra equations.
  • We also have to read 79 pages of Angela’s Ashes and find “three important and powerful quotes from the section with 1–2 sentence analyses of its [sic] significance.
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Gayle Cole

InTELA - Home - 0 views

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