But here's the irony. "Mary is more likely to convince John than professor Mazur in front of the class," Mazur says.
"She's only recently learned it and still has some feeling for the conceptual difficulties that she has whereas professor Mazur learned [the idea] such a long time ago that he can no longer understand why somebody has difficulty grasping it."
That's the irony of becoming an expert in your field, Mazur says. "It becomes not easier to teach, it becomes harder to teach because you're unaware of the conceptual difficulties of a beginning learner."
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Khan Academy is an Indictment of Education | Action-Reaction - 16 views
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RT @vikingphysics: http://bit.ly/fZAQpO ; Some cognitive dissonance btwn the TED that likes Khan and also likes Sir Ken?
Using Webb's Depth of Knowledge to Increase Rigor | Edutopia - 62 views
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Nice overview of Webb's Depths of Knowledge and its connection to "rigor" - one of the most overused and misunderstood words in education these days.
NCLRC - The Essentials of Language Teaching - 37 views
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This site gives college and university instructors and teaching assistants an introduction to the language teaching methods that are currently used in U.S. universities. The content is based on the material in Modules for the Professional Preparation of Teaching Assistants in Foreign Languages (Grace Stovall Burkart, ed.; Center for Applied Linguistics, 1998). The site was developed for the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC) by Catharine Keatley and Deborah Kennedy under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, CFDA #84.015A.
Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach - Education Week - 116 views
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Discussion on how technology is being used and why we're still struggling to give more control of learning to students. A good read!
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Excellent find!
The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education - 33 views
Heutagogy Explained: Self-Determined Learning in Education | Schoology - 12 views
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"nd parallel with how people learn best outside of a school setting. The teacher serves more as a coach-a valuable resource to be tapped if necessary, but not the primary source of knowledge."
Screenings | Love Them First | Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary - 11 views
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Add this to your list of must see shows this fall. I attended a screening and one of the teachers who is in the film noted that the title of the film should more appropriately be, "love them, relentlessly." It is truly inspiring.
Education Rethink: Kids Don't Actually Hate That - 6 views
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A great post to get one thinking about what it is that kids actually hate...
Project Based Learning - 60 views
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Online resources for planning PBL
Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught - 52 views
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To make sure his students are prepared, Mazur has set up a web-based monitoring system where everyone has to submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them. He uses their answers to prepare a set of multiple-choice questions he uses during class.
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Mazur begins class by giving a brief explanation of a concept he wants students to understand. Then he asks one of the multiple-choice questions. Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur's laptop. Next, he asks the students to turn to the person sitting next to them and talk about the question. The class typically erupts in a cacophony of voices, as it did that first time he told students to talk to each other because he couldn't figure out what else to do. Once the students have discussed the question for a few minutes, Mazur instructs them to answer the question again.
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What If Schools Created a Culture of "Do" INSTEAD of a Culture of "Know?" - The Tempere... - 106 views
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On cultural change needed in schools to move forward. Great post by Bill Ferriter.
Common Core Standards in "I Can" Statements - 186 views
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I couldn't find the student-friendly CCSS "I Can" statements. Can anyone help?
The Flipped Classroom: Turning the Traditional Classroom on its Head - 5 views
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"What's a flipped classroom - and why now? Share your thoughts in the comments below and subscribe to our monthly newsletter to find out when we release our next infographic."
10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation - 135 views
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10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation
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1. Make the work Google-proof Put another way, design it so that Google is crucial to creating a response rather than finding one. If students can Google answers–stumble on what you want them to remember in a few clicks–there’s a problem with the instructional design. And asking them what they’ll do when they WiFi goes out probably isn’t compelling enough as an argument. Instead, anchor learning experiences around new kinds of thinking that force the synthesis of disparate ideas, media, and communities. Scenario-based learning, challenge-based learning, project-based learning, learning simulations, and so on. It’s all out there, ready to be integrated in your classroom.
Ideas to Improve Imaginations | UKEdChat.com - Supporting the #UKEdChat Education Commu... - 25 views
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Includes ten tips to help encourage children's imaginations
Pedagogical Advent Calendar - 111 views
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Open the virtual door to get a teacher tip, resource or idea each day up to Christmas. - ...1 more comment...
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A fun, and helpful pedagogical advent calendar, sharing different tips and ideas each day to help teachers and classroom practice.
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