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in title, tags, annotations or urlDan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students | MindShift - 108 views
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educators are sellers of ideas
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Games have the potential to make math more relevant or engaging, Pink said, but if they lead to standardized thinking about getting to the one right answer, that can be problematic
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If the only aim of a game is for points and badges, the game has little benefit for the player. For a game to be compelling and a good source of learning, it should be capable of providing rapid, robust, regular, and meaningful feedback.
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"Jobs in education, Pink said in a recent interview, are all about moving other people, changing their behavior, like getting kids to pay attention in class; getting teens to understand they need to look at their future and to therefore study harder. At the center of all this persuasion is selling: educators are sellers of ideas. "
The Importance of Low-Stakes Student Feedback | ASSESSMENT | MindShift | KQED News - 62 views
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culture of learning” instead of a “culture of earning.”
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Creating that kind of culture isn’t easy, but Bull continually goes back to formative assessment as the key.
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“I find that formative assessment tends to be the most important aspect of a learning assessment plan,” he said. “It has the most impact on a student’s learning.”
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MindShift | How we will learn - 84 views
Debunking the Genius Myth | MindShift - 28 views
Time to Start Making: Free Design Programs for 3D Printers | MindShift - 52 views
What's Worth Investing In? How to Decide What Technology You Need | MindShift - 90 views
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Lehmann is famous in progressive education circles for his quote: “Technology must be like oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.” His point: The best technology allows students to explore and create “artifacts of their own learning.”
How are Educators Using Google Plus Hangouts? | MindShift - 72 views
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As the name suggests, a “hangout” is an informal place, but that doesn’t mean that teaching and learning won’t happen there, of course. And as the show-and-tell on “Ask an Engineer” demonstrates, we’re just beginning to see the innovative ways in which Google+ will be used in educational settings. I asked those who follow me on Google Plus if they’re planning on using Hangouts with their students in the Fall, and it’s clear that we’ll see office hours, collaborative grading sessions, and the like occur via the new video conferencing tool.
How Does Multitasking Change the Way Kids Learn? | MindShift - 45 views
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How does multitasking affect the way kids learn? New insight about learning with gadgets. http://t.co/L1LgDO0NCW
To Get Students Invested, Involve Them in Decisions Big and Small | MindShift - 60 views
Video: "The Future Will Not be Multiple Choice" | MindShift - 4 views
7 Essential Principles of Innovative Learning | MindShift - 139 views
Flip This: Bloom's Taxonomy Should Start with Creating | MindShift - 7 views
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Flipping Blooms Taxonomy. Great article. Every time we ask students to use a new structure to talk about themselves and then let them figure out why the sentence order is what it is, we arepracticing this. We see greater results as they move to higher levels of production making more errors but experimenting and learning from their mistakes in production.
Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift - 118 views
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The current structure of the school day is obsolete, most would agree. Created during the Industrial Age, the assembly line system we have in place now has little relevance to what we know kids actually need to thrive
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Yet therein lies the paradox. It’s exactly during these uncertain times when people must be willing to try new things, to be more open, curious and experimental, she said. In education, although there are great new models of learning and schooling, they are the exceptions, and the progressive movement has not gained much momentum.
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“One thing we know for sure is that kids learn better when teachers are invested and paying attention and showing they care,” she said. “The biggest impact you’ll have as a teachers is the relationship you establish with your student.”
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