adaptive learning will adjust every question based on a student’s previous answer.
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A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety - 40 views
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BetaKit » Is Adaptive Learning the Future of Education? - 2 views
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Knewton is working on having educational content tagged so it can be placed into a “Knowledge Graph.” This system determines what concepts need to be learned before a student can move on to others, and how they all fit together.
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The company recently parterned with Pearson to tag every textbook under their imprint work with the Knewton Knowledge Graph.
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ata mining and take various inputs, like test question results, activity on the system, what links students clicked, etc. to make a prediction of the next best piece of content for a student to learn.
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The technology seems to be working. After a pilot project at Arizona State University with 5,000 remedial math students, pass rates improved from 66 percent to 75 percent, with half the class finishing four weeks early
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“The professors are much better prepared for a single class so that they can give much more individualized instruction,” Lui said. “The practical effectiveness of this means that teachers are now able to use their time more efficiently to hone in on the things that are most troublesome or useful for different groups of students. You’re not teaching to the mean or bottom quartile.”
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Analyzing and collecting big data is really what Junyo is about, enabling everyone in the education sector to make the learning experience more personal.
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The students also have their own dashboard to see recommended content.
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Teachers don’t have the time to do detailed reporting of a student’s progress and even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to provide one on one tutoring for every single student at different stages of learning.
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students are learning more outside the classroom than in the classroom, and educators are finally starting to acknowledge that.
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"The professors are much better prepared for a single class so that they can give much more individualized instruction," Lui said. "The practical effectiveness of this means that teachers are now able to use their time more efficiently to hone in on the things that are most troublesome or useful for different groups of students. You're not teaching to the mean or bottom quartile."
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Harvard Education Letter - 27 views
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Learning to see all behavior as a form of communication, for example, is a key principle that helps when teachers are frustrated or confused by how students are acting. Even though students’ behavior can look bizarre or disruptive, their actions are purposeful and are their attempts to solve a problem.
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About 10 percent of the school population—or 9–13 million children—struggle with mental health problems. In a typical classroom of 20, chances are good that one or two students are dealing with serious psychosocial stressors relating to poverty, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, or a psychiatric disorder. There is also growing evidence that the number of children suffering the effects of trauma and those with autism-related social deficits is also on the rise.
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If teachers are supported to set up classrooms to promote success, these students (and other challenging students who have similar behaviors but may not have individualized education plans, or IEPs) can improve their performance in school and in life.
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Making positive attention more predictable in the classroom can help break the cycle of negative attention-seeking behaviors. Putting one-on-one time on the student’s personal visual schedule (even if it’s only a couple minutes to read a student’s favorite page in a book) or setting a timer for 10 minutes and telling the student that’s when you will be back are just two strategies that can help.
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Teachers who work with challenging students need support from administrators and others in the school. It is very stressful to have a student in class who is constantly disruptive. In order to make the necessary investment, the teacher needs substantive support from administrators to avoid frustration and burnout and to garner the energy to provide effective interventions. When administrators delegate some of the teacher’s responsibilities to other people in the building, the teacher can devote more time to finding solutions. Regularly meeting with consultants (e.g., special educators, mental health professionals, and behavior analysts) can be essential for designing how the student progresses, but it also takes up the teacher’s prep time. If possible, the administrator can arrange coverage so that the teacher can meet with consultants at times other than lunch and prep. Support staff can instruct small groups of children while the teacher works with the student with behavior challenges. And since there are usually so many people involved with a struggling student, delineating a clear coordination plan is also critical. It can be helpful, as a team, to make a list of responsibilities and indicate who is responsible for what.
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The more intensely the student is taught the underdeveloped skills, and the more the environment is changed to encourage appropriate behavior, the more quickly the student’s behavior is likely to change.
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Winter of discontent: Snow-lovers mourn Northland's dry weather | Duluth News Tribune |... - 9 views
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A brownish Christmas?You can hear the frustration in Cedar Gordon’s voice. The Two Harbors 9-year-old, according to her mother, Katya, “is furious about global warming.”
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r, 7, ran through her list of things to revel in about snow: skiing, sledding, snow angels, snowmen. “I feel really mad at it.”The only bright light of normal winter activity in Two Harbors is the new ice skating rink in front of the band shell in the city park.Those are the harsh realities and small graces for the last week of 2011 as a drought continues in the Northland. The National Weather Service predicts more of the same, at least through the weekend, meaning no more snow.
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A Model of Learning Objectives - 14 views
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(clarifying, paraphrasing, representing, translating) (concluding, extrapolating, interpolating, predicting) (discriminating, distinguishing, focusing, selecting) (finding coherence, integrating, outlining, parsing, structuring) (coordinating, detecting, monitoring, testing)
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Freakonomics » Evaluating Teachers: What About Doing it the Old-Fashioned Way? - 88 views
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A substantial literature documents large variation in teacher effectiveness at raising student achievement, providing motivation to identify highly effective and ineffective teachers early in their careers. Using data from New York City public schools, we estimate whether subjective evaluations of teacher effectiveness have predictive power for the achievement gains made by teachers’ future students. We find that these subjective evaluations have substantial power, comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from a teacher’s first year in the classroom.
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Education, particularly K-12 education, remains relatively untouched by advances in our understanding of how people learn, how to design instruction that incorporates those insights, and the explosion in information technologies such as low-cost smartphones and tablets, cloud computing, broadband networks, speech recognition and speech synthesis, predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, intelligent tutors, simulations, games, computer-[supported] collaborative work, and many other technologies.
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How Classroom Coaching Promotes Self-Reliant Learning | MiddleWeb - 1 views
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In inquiry learning, when results don’t turn out to be exactly as planned or predicted, teachers have to manage how that outcome is perceived.
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Shift to the Future: Why BYOT? - 6 views
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When learning moves to higher order and more critical thinking levels, students tend to internalize information and knowledge more and it "sticks" with them for longer - so it is more likely to become something that is applicable to other situations or to be generalized and applied.
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Isn't it interesting how we put limits on the learning of students and we don't even realize we are doing so?
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Right now, too many teachers are using technology in this more simplified, lower level way. Instead, we need to be pushing students more to make predictions and take their thinking a step further. I wonder if we, teachers, are pushing ourselves when it comes to thinking or are we simply teaching the same old, same old in the ways we learned eons ago...
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Why is it so hard to raise our expectations that students WILL have this technology? If we consistently expect it, they will - we expect them to have a pencil...
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Change has to happen. If we keep doing the same thing, we will continually have the same results. Do we want different results? YES!
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I was meeting with a teacher this week who had a wonderful lesson using a few websites to ID European countries and find information about each country. There was a wee bit of critical thinking added into the mix of the assignment but I was still 'hungry for more' and feeling the need to nudge him and his students to the next level. The green highlighted information is sort of what I was looking for to nudge him onward with in his lesson.
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The Future of Education? | Teched Up Teacher - 33 views
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Why some schools are giving letter grades a fail - The Globe and Mail - 41 views
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Instead of reporting to parents only two or three times a year, teachers began regularly communicating using an online student portfolio system called Fresh Grade.
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ritish education researchers Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam published a widely-cited article demonstrating how increasing descriptive feedback raises student academic achievement
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Instead of Ms. Samson telling students how they are doing, they are expected to articulate to her what they learned in class, how it relates to their learning goals and where they’re struggling.
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standardized tests don’t predict later life success such as employment and income level
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Ms. Samson is still required to give students a letter grade at the end of each semester, but the letters have taken on a whole new meaning to her and her students.
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The move away from grades matches a growing belief among employers that traditional assessment is not the best way to help students develop the skills they need to succeed in today’s world.
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The Cingulate Cortex Does Everything - YouTube - 1 views
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our model predicts that the the cingulate will overtake the PFC within ten years. I can send you the spreadsheet if you like. Also, the prefrontal cortex is typically considered any neocortex that lies anterior to the precentral gyrus (motor cortex), so, the anterior cingulate is actually part of the PFC!
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the prefrontal cortex is typically considered any neocortex that lies anterior to the precentral gyrus (motor cortex), so, the anterior cingulate is actually part of the PFC!
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Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
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Rubbish. The idea that digital native are adept at multitasking is wrong. They may be doing many things but the quality and depth is reduced. There is a significant body of research to support this. Development of grit and determination are key attributes of successful people. Set and demand high standards. No one plays sport or an instrument because it is easy rather because they can clearly see a link between hard work and pleasure.
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Information development was slow.
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Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
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Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience.
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Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime.
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Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains.
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Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.
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Principles of connectivism:
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Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Learning may reside in non-human appliances. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning. Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill. Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.
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The organization and the individual are both learning organisms.
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Classrooms which emulate the “fuzziness”
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So what does this look like? I feel that when I attempt this, evaluators and administrators don't necessarily understand. They want a neat, quiet, well-managed, orderly classroom.
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If new learning approaches are required, then why are we still being evaluated in a linear way?
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John Seely Brown presents an interesting notion that the internet leverages the small efforts of many with the large efforts of few.
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The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
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Knowledge is growing exponentially
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is doubling every 18 months
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To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”
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(the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).
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a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world”
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Learning theories are concerned with the actual process of learning, not with the value of what is being learned.
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The ability to synthesize and recognize connections and patterns is a valuable skill.
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knowledge is no longer acquired in the linear manner
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What is the impact of chaos as a complex pattern recognition process on learning
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An entirely new approach is needed.
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Chaos is the breakdown of predictability, evidenced in complicated arrangements that initially defy order.
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Meaning-making and forming connections between specialized communities are important activities.
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Chaos, as a science, recognizes the connection of everything to everything.
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If the underlying conditions used to make decisions change, the decision itself is no longer as correct as it was at the time it was made.
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principle that people, groups, systems, nodes, entities can be connected to create an integrated whole.
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Connections between disparate ideas and fields can create new innovations.
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Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual
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decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations
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The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital.
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Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism do not attempt to address the challenges of organizational knowledge and transference.
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The health of the learning ecology of the organization depends on effective nurturing of information flow.
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This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.
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This amplification of learning, knowledge and understanding through the extension of a personal network is the epitome of connectivism.
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Diverse teams of varying viewpoints are a critical structure for completely exploring ideas
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An organizations ability to foster, nurture, and synthesize the impacts of varying views of information is critical to knowledge economy surviva
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As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses.
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Access is not enough. Prior knowledge and understanding is needed. Processing is needed. Evaluation of processing and outputs is needed. Feeding that back into the "system" is needed.
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learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
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learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity
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How Do We Transform Our Schools? - Education Next : Education Next - 26 views
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And yet the machines have made hardly any impact.
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Why would they? It is PEOPLE, not programs or 'things' that make a difference!
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An organization’s natural instinct is to cram the innovation into its existing operating model to sustain what it already does. This is the predictable course, the logical course—and the wrong course.
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This idea of 'nonconsumption' is exactly what the authors of Blended discuss. This is the opportune moment to disrupt and innovate.
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The way to implement an innovation so that it will transform an organization is to implement it disruptively—not by using it to compete against the existing paradigm and serve existing customers, but to let it compete against “non-consumption,” where the alternative is nothing at all.
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At first glance there appears to be little non-consumption of education in the United States since students are required to receive schooling. Looking deeper, however, reveals many pockets of non-consumption where students would be delighted with computer-based learning rather than the alternative, nothing at all. Take Advanced Placement (AP) courses for starters. According to a 2005 report by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 33 percent of schools nationwide offered no AP classes in 2002–03. Those that do provide AP courses today only offer a fraction of the 34 courses for which AP exams are available, because they lack the resources to hire more AP teachers or there is not enough student demand to justify a dedicated course and teacher.
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Credit recovery is another big opportunity.
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Enhancing Critical-Thinking Skills in Children: Tips for Parents - Duke Gifted Letter - 55 views
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Are in-depth group discussions provided during class time? Are students coached to question their thinking processes and those of their classmates? Are students afforded opportunities to evaluate their progress regularly? Are students encouraged to pose questions regularly in class? Are students provided with guides to help them reflect on their thinking (such as Bloom’s Taxonomy)? Do class projects engage students in analysis, synthesis, and evaluation? Are students given opportunities to consider various opinions and to justify their own beliefs?
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Table 1 Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy Competence Description Question/Prompt Knowledge Dates, events, formulas, other facts When did the United States become an independent country from England? What is the formula for area? Comprehension Recognize meaning, sequence, events, interpret information, compare ideas, make inferences, predict ideas What is the author's purpose? How are these numbers related? Is water of sunshine more critical to plant life? Human life? Application Use of information and concepts to solve problems Using your knowledge of calories and your physical makeup, calculate how much energy you must exert to lose three pounds per month. Demonstrate your understanding of how to create a Web site. Analysis Recognize patterns, parts, components Considering the stock market, examine which investments were the most lucrative this quarter. Organize these games by level of difficulty. Synthesis Use of information to create a new system, generalize, draw conclusions When did the United States become an independent country from England? What is the formula for area? Evaluation Assess concepts, weigh opinions for subjectivity, select items, judge Which type of dog would be best suited for your family, given your lifestyle and housing? Which local newspaper is written the most objectively?
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Job Bank - 32 views
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Are you verbal/linguistic? Then you make sense out of the world through language and can use words effectively either speaking or in writing. When you make puns and tell stories, you exhibit this intelligence.Learning strategies: read material before going to lectures; take notes of what you hear and read; describe what you have learned to others; listen to what others have learned;write out the steps/instructions to a procedure or experiment;use crossword puzzles, puns and imaginary conversations as memory devices;use your verbal/linguistic knowledge to help you study. For example, if you are taking a course in music, make up a story based on what you hear.
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Learning strategies for multiple intelligences. Nice list that can easily be used to create learning activities that span all learning styles in the classroom.
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The Elements of Style: Twitter Edition - 39 views
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William Strunk, Jr., or E.B. White for that matter, couldn’t have predicted so much communication would take place via 140 character short messages. While The Elements of Style has stood the test of time, there is a new set of rules (which I’ve completely made up) you should keep in mind for Twitter.
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This advice only helps you if you actually want your tweets to be represented as good writing.
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Ghotit Free Online Service, Text-To-Speech Feature for Microsoft Explorer 7 - 43 views
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I tried this at our school on a student system. I had hoped that it might make typing more efficient for really young users in addition to helping our special needs. It made Word load too slowly for the general population, and our special needs students receiving their own computers with co-writer or other word prediction software supported through our LEA. It had a nice interface (big icons, text is big, etc.), but it won't server our needs at this time.