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Michelle Krill

Eight Ways of Looking at Intelligence | MindShift - 0 views

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    "ight ways of looking at intelligence-eight perspectives provided by the science of learning. A few words about that term: The science of learning is a relatively new discipline born of an agglomeration of fields: cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience. Its project is to apply the methods of science to human endeavors-teaching and learning-that have for centuries been mostly treated as an art."
Michelle Krill

Inquiry Based Science: What Does It Look Like? - 0 views

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    "actions of students engaged in hands-on, minds-on science exploration"
Michelle Krill

To Make Science Real, Kids Want More Fun : NPR - 0 views

  • It would be a better learning experience, she says, "if we were almost forced to really understand instead of just memorizing things ... and [went] more in-depth in knowing why the answer is that answer."
Michelle Krill

How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | MindShift - 2 views

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    ""How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens," author Benedict Carey informs us that "most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong" and "rooted more in superstition than in science."
Michelle Krill

Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - Teaching - The Chroni... - 1 views

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    "...There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public Interest. And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom."
Michelle Krill

Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory - 0 views

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    "a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design)."
Michelle Krill

Schools combine meditation and brain science to help combat discipline problems | Chalk... - 0 views

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    When students and teachers learn together about how their brains influence behavior, one expert says, discipline can become less of a confrontation and more of a partnership
Michelle Krill

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    "Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward."
Michelle Krill

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 0 views

  • Interactive learning triples students’ gains in knowledge as measured by the kinds of conceptual tests that had once deflated Mazur’s spirits, and by many other assessments as well. It has other salutary effects, like erasing the gender gap between male and female undergraduates.
  • For his part, Mazur has collected reams of data on his students’ results. (He says most scholars, even scientists, rely on anecdotal evidence instead.) End-of-semester course evaluations he dismisses as nothing more than “popularity contests” that ought to be abolished. “There is zero correlation between course evaluations and the amount learned,” he says. “Award-winning teachers with the highest evaluations can produce the same results as teachers who are getting fired.”
  • Active learners take new information and apply it, rather than merely taking note of it.
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  • From cognitive science, we hear that learning is a process of moving information from short-term to long-term memory; assessment research has proven that active learning does that best.”
  • Websites and laptops have been around for years now, but we haven’t fully thought through how to integrate them with teaching so as to conceive of courses differently.”
  • It starts from his view of education as a two-step process: information transfer, and then making sense of and assimilating that information. “
  • Taking active learning seriously means revamping the entire teaching/learning enterprise—even turning it inside out or upside down. For example, active learning overthrows the “transfer of information” model of instruction, which casts the student as a dry sponge who passively absorbs facts and ideas from a teacher.
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Michelle Krill

Association for Psychological Science: Journals - 0 views

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    "But does scientific research really support the learning-styles hypothesis? In a new assessment of the available evidence, authors Harold Pashler, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert Bjork conclude that the learning-styles hypothesis has little, if any, empirical grounding. "
Michelle Krill

Home :: ColorCode Personality Science - 0 views

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    The Color Code is the most revolutionary and ACCURATE measurement of your personality available on the market today. Once you have learned the Color Code you will never see yourself or others the same again! The Color Code is your best bet for understanding how to make sense out of life's relationship puzzles.
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