The Brain Puzzle
The Thinking Skills Club organizes fun, cognitively enriching games into a curriculum disguised as a brain puzzle. The puzzle pieces fill with colour as games are passed in all 6 areas of the site: Executive Function, Problem Solving, Memory, Processing Speed, Social Skills and Attention.
http://www.jostens.com/students/content/files/students_guide_to_publishing.pdf - 0 views
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Melody linked to this in her recent blog post. What is Personal Publishing? Publishing is the process of producing and publicly distributing information. You can publish a variety of content, including your ideas, experiences, stories, observations, or opinions. Additionally, you can publish the pictures you take, videos you produce, or other forms of art you create. Publishing your work allows you to share your life and obtain feedback from others as well as preserve long-lasting memories for years to come.
Learning Theories - 2 views
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To help you learn and refresh your memory about some of the leading learning theories in educational literature, we are sharing with you this excellent resource from Instructional Design that features over 50 learning theories. Each theory comes with a short definition, a section on how it is applied, few examples illustrating the use of the theory, and a final section with resources and references to learn more about the theory in question.
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Instructionaldesign.org is a gold mine! I appreciate the consistent comparative layout for each theory, and that I can look directly to the Principles. Beyond the learning theories, have a look at the "Bad Error Message" section if you fancy a wee laugh. http://www.instructionaldesign.org/bad_error_messages.html
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Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School - Jessica Lahey - The At... - 1 views
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The authors of this study conclude that teacher bias regarding behavior, rather than academic perfor
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mance, penalizes boys as early as kindergarten. On average, boys receive lower behavioral assessment scores from teachers, and those scores affect teachers' overall perceptions of boys' intelligence and achievement.
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The most effective lessons included more than one of these elements: Lessons that result in an end product--a booklet, a catapult, a poem, or a comic strip, for example. Lessons that are structured as competitive games. Lessons requiring motor activity. Lessons requiring boys to assume responsibility for the learning of others. Lessons that require boys to address open questions or unsolved problems. Lessons that require a combination of competition and teamwork. Lessons that focus on independent, personal discovery and realization. Lessons that introduce drama in the form of novelty or surprise.
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Tackling the Limits of Touch Screens - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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uch tactile features can help build muscle memory and improve accuracy — skills lost in the rush to touch screens, said Scott MacKenzie, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at York University in Toronto who specializes in human-computer interaction. Many people who type on flat glass screens must keep their eyes focused on the surface to hit the correct key, he said. “It’s not just that visual attention is needed,” he added, “but a lot of visual attention.”
Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 2 views
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For a quarter of an hour, the investigators from the lab of Larry Rosen, a psychology professor at California State University–Dominguez Hills, marked down once a minute what the students were doing as they studied. A checklist on the form included: reading a book, writing on paper, typing on the computer—and also using email, looking at Facebook, engaging in instant messaging, texting, talking on the phone, watching television, listening to music, surfing the Web. Sitting unobtrusively at the back of the room, the observers counted the number of windows open on the students’ screens and noted whether the students were wearing earbuds.
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tudents’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Facebook feeds. By the time the 15 minutes were up, they had spent only about 65 percent of the observation period actually doing their schoolwork.
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The media multitasking habit starts early. In “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds,” a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and published in 2010, almost a third of those surveyed said that when they were doing homework, “most of the time” they were also watching TV, texting, listening to music, or using some other medium. The lead author of the study was Victoria Rideout, then a vice president at Kaiser and now an independent research and policy consultant. Although the study looked at all aspects of kids’ media use, Rideout told me she was particularly troubled by its findings regarding media multitasking while doing schoolwork.
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