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Think you know the best way to study? Better test yourself. « The Invisible G... - 0 views

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    "Think you know the best way to study? Better test yourself. By Daniel Simons, on January 25th, 2011 Imagine you're taking an introductory psychology class and you have to study for your first test. You've read the assigned text, and now you three more days to prepare. What should you do? 1. Re-read the text once more each day 2. Spend each day studying the text to identify critical concepts and the links among them 3. Quiz yourself the first day, reread the text the second day, and quiz yourself again the third day Do you think you know the answer? Students in my introductory psychology class regularly come to my office hour after failing the first exam to ask what they did wrong. Some even claim to have spent hours re-reading the text, highlighting important concepts, and even taking notes. Where did they go wrong? In The Invisible Gorilla, Chris Chabris and I argue that these students fell victim to the Illusion of Knowledge-they thought they had a deeper understanding of the material than they actually did. But why did they have that mistaken intuition? The answer seems to be that they mistook familiarity and fluency for real understanding. The same principle explains why you might think you know how a toilet works when all you really understand is how to work a toilet-your familiarity with using a toilet leads you to the false impression that you know far more than you actually do. What's most remarkable about the illusion of knowledge is how easily we can overcome it. What's most disturbing is how rarely we actually do. To determine whether you have genuine knowledge about toilets, just ask yourself a few diagnostic questions and force yourself to answer. For example, how does water fill up the bowl? What causes the water to leave the bowl? Why does water leave the tank? Each time you can produce the correct answer, ask yourself a slightly deeper, next-step question. Eventually, you will reach the limits of your knowledge. You'll
Miss OConnor

How To Embed Practically Anything On Your Blog or Website - 0 views

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    How to use embedly to do as the title says, embed just about anything.  This blog includes a tutorial for how to use embedly with wordpress (me)
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'How are you going to grade this?': Evaluating Classroom Blogs - ProfHacker - The Chron... - 0 views

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    to help me think about how to grade blogs next year
Miss OConnor

Reinvent the Book Club: How To Host Your Own Audiobook Gathering | Apartment Therapy - 0 views

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    an idea for ssr next year-we all "listen" to a classic? hmm Then we post to blog, could they also listen at home with link from edmodo? what about this and edmodo and a blog as literature circles?
Miss OConnor

Getting Started With Audioboo - 0 views

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    not quite sure about this yet, will need some thinking. Resource that allows you to record and upload audio and pix. How different from others? How protected can I make it?
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StudyBoost.com - 0 views

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    still in beta testing, but how cool it will be.  Love the independence it gives students and how it plays to their techno strengths.
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How to use QR codes to support learning - 0 views

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    Slide show courtesy of Tom Barrett on how to use QR codes (bar code scans) in education
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YouTube - Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education - 0 views

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    Discussing how the videos used by The Khan Academy have allowed teachers to "flip" their classroom, providing more time for teacher/student interaction and allowing students to learn concepts at their own pace.
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My Files - 0 views

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    class connect Want to explore more, how to use as a one stop class resource?
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EDge21: COD - 4/3/2012 - Substance [Writing] - 0 views

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    For future e publishing. Need to explore how I will use this to publish with students, my own materials too.
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TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing - 0 views

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    educational videos by TED need review to decide how to work into informational/argument unit
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A Murder of Crows ~ Full Episode | Nature | PBS - 0 views

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    Fascinating section on how Crows are able to "think into the future" in order to problem solve new situations.  
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Course: Twitter - Making the most of Tweets - 0 views

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    although this is for someone's online course, the information would certainly be useful for any teacher looking to understand why and how to use Twitter
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The bright side of wrong - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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    How does this connect to the article that problem solving is the best approach to learning. Groups who did not have preconcieved notion about the end result came up with better solutions
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Teaching Students to Dialogue « changED - 0 views

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    A nice visual rubric for teaching students how to interact, and for teaching critical communication skills. A great tool for peer review, group discussions and teaching collaboration
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The Middle School Mouth: Interactive Notebooks - Yet Again - 1 views

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    Some great ideas for how to integrate pinterest anchor charts I've seen.
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iLibrarian - 0 views

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    an article discussing how to create quality blof content with consistency
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Online learning for student-centered innovation - 0 views

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    A discussion of "disruptive innovations" and how online learning can be used in brick and mortar schools to engage students in richer, more complex learning experience and increase student/teacher interactions.
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RadioJames Objectives Builder - 1 views

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    Haven't read, need to view later and see how this works.
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