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petr hejny

Six Tips for Brain-Based Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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education learning

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  • petr hejny on 16 May 13
     
    13 page research based guide on Brain-Based Learning to increase attention and retention. Included is a very good reading list and strong resource links, a PBL activity on Building a Brain Owner's Manual with students. Surprise and Novelty as effective attention grabber. The links throughout the guide seem very relevant and interesting.
Carmel McIntyre

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 1 views

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Collaborative Learning

shared by Carmel McIntyre on 08 May 13 - No Cached
  • "Participatory learning" is one term used to describe how we can learn together from one another's skills. "Cognitive surplus" is another used in the digital world for that "more than the sum of the parts" form of collaborative thinking that happens when groups think together online.
  • We spent a good deal of time thinking about how accident, disruption, distraction, and difference increase the motivation to learn and to solve problems, both individually and collectively. To find examples, we spent time with a dance ensemble rehearsin
  • Brenda Sherry on 28 May 13
     
    I really liked her mention of how her grading practices had to change with the use of new technologies
Marcia Piquette

Multitasking while studying: Divided attention and technological gadgets impair learnin... - 0 views

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multitasking attention gadgets learning memory technology education teaching

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  • Marcia Piquette on 04 May 13
     
    Link from @jmitchinson
Marcia Piquette

Partial Attention / Multitasking - YouTube - 0 views

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  • Marcia Piquette on 04 May 13
     
    Link from @jmitchinson 
Laura Beal

Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Students First, Not Stuff - 3 views

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  • the place where kids came to get information, where, at the end of the day, we were responsible for disseminating the knowledge, we assessed whether our students got it, and we stamped it "an education."
    • Laura Beal
      Laura Beal on 13 Apr 13
       
      Challenge for I/S teachers: many trained as content experts, pedagogy 2nd.  How do we help with this shift in thinking? 
  • Resistance, as they say, is futile.
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  • 21st century literacies as including "proficiency with the tools of technology," an ability to "manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information," an ability to "design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes," and more.
  • attention literacy
  • the ability to exert some degree of mental control over our use of technology rather than simply being distracted by it—for users to be productive. P
  • r transmedia literacy, which includes networking and performance skills that take advantage of this connected, audience-rich moment.
  • if we're not "proficient with the tools of technology," how can we make sound decisions about the technologies that will support this kind of literacy development in our students?
  • power to create our own education in any number of ways
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