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in title, tags, annotations or urlBee sting - 36 views
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ill actively seek out and sting when they perceive the hive to be threatened, often being alerted to this by the release of attack pheromones. Although it is widely believed that a worker honeybee can sting only once, this is a misconception: although the stinger is in fact barbed so that it lodges in the victim's skin, tearing loose from the bee's abdomen and leading to its death in minutes, this only happens if the victim is a mammal (or bird).
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Rage Against the Common Core - NYTimes.com - 22 views
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Race to the Top program to encourage states
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misconception that standards and testing are identical has become widespread
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Many teachers like the standards, because they invite creativity in the classroom — instead of memorization, the Common Core emphasizes critical thinking and problem-solving.
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Why National Standards Won't Fix American Education | The Heritage Foundation - 56 views
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From a “Common Core” to National Standards
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Misconceptions About the Promise of National Standards and Testing
NewsHour Extra: Year-Round Schooling - August 8, 2001 - 27 views
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3,000 schools had year-round education programs last year.
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less than four percent of all schools, but it's four times the number of students in year-round schools 10 years ago.
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The traditional school-year calendar with early morning start times
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Another news article discussing the views on year-round school. The article explains how the trend is continuing to grow and how there is often much misconception of the term "year-round." Year-round does not necessarily mean that the students will get fewer breaks than the traditional school hours. This article attempts to clear up some of the confusion involving the term "year-round" as related to grade school.
Department of Psychology :: Principles of Learning :: University of Memphis - 62 views
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The single most important variable in promoting long-term retention and transfer is "practice at retrieval"
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-learners generate responses, with minimal retrieval cues, repeatedly, over time.
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without relying on external memory aids.
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Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos | Action-Reaction - 67 views
Everything You've Ever Been Told About How You Learn Is A Lie | Australian Popular Science - 151 views
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"You know everyone learns differently. Do you think you learn better through words or pictures? Did you know you learn different subjects with different sides of the brain? Welp, they were wrong. Many of the theories of "brain-based" education, a method of instruction supposedly based on neuroscience, have been largely debunked by rigorous science."
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Thanks for sharing .This is well done! I teach a Psychology course designed to develop students' critical thinking about such "myths." Here is a list of others: Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Ruscio, J., and Beyerstein, B. L (2010). 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Curriculum21 - Annotexting - 62 views
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We would also like to share this DISCUSSION RUBRIC (2007) that you can use as students submit annotations and begin to draw conclusions about what their evidence is pointing to.
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These annotations, rather than being on paper, can be collected with different web tools so that students can collaborate
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Mindfulness Does Not Lead To Happiness | Psychology Today - 12 views
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