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How to Write Effective Driving Questions for Project-Based Learning | Edutopia - 231 views

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    This website points out the significance of having Driving Questions- DQ's. This helps focus the direct of the project. Good article.
Joanna Gerakios

Google Lit Trips: Bringing Travel Tales to Life | Edutopia - 77 views

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    Google Lit Trips xxplained with helpful links.
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    Google Lit Trips Explained with helpful links.
Erin Crisp

Project-Based Learning Made Easy | Edutopia - 99 views

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    Highlights attainable examples of students and teachers participating in PBL
Amy Burns

Inventing Infographics: Visual Literacy Meets Written Content | Edutopia - 74 views

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    Great article explaining the learning behind the creation of infographics. Many links and examples to get you started.
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    Great article explaining the learning behind the creation of infographics. Many links and examples to get you started.
Matt Renwick

Project-Based Learning Through a Maker's Lens | Edutopia - 43 views

  • Choosing, thinking, reflecting, and sorting possible projects should be a career-long process. Good projects don't fade with time -- they get richer and more exciting for both teacher and student.
  • Great projects, on the other hand, are opportunities for learners and teachers to collaborate with those around them.
Sharin Tebo

Why Curiosity Enhances Learning | Edutopia - 40 views

  • It's no secret that curiosity makes learning more effective and enjoyable. Curious students not only ask questions, but also actively seek out the answers.
  • While it might be no big surprise that we're more likely to remember what we've learned when the subject matter intrigues us, it turns out that curiosity also helps us learn information we don't consider all that interesting or important. The researchers found that, once the subjects' curiosity had been piqued by the right question, they were better at learning and remembering completely unrelated information
  • if a student struggles with math, personalizing math problems to match their specific interests rather than using generic textbook questions could help them better remember how to go about solving similar math problems in the future.
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  • there is no such thing as a dumb question, because as cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham notes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?, it's the question that stimulates curiosity -- being told the answer quells curiosity before it can even get going.
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    Curiosity's role in Students' Learning
mrsdvorakravitz

Understanding the Causes of Dyslexia for Effective Intervention | Edutopia - 38 views

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    "In the early to mid-2000s, research on the underlying basis of dyslexia pointed to a primary problem with the phonological processing of speech sounds. "
Deborah Baillesderr

Mobile Learning: Resource Roundup | Edutopia - 44 views

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    Great resources!
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