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Michelle Krill

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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edtech testing techandscores

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  • Michelle Krill on 21 Oct 11
     
    "Some backers of this idea say standardized tests, the most widely used measure of student performance, don't capture the breadth of skills that computers can help develop. But they also concede that for now there is no better way to gauge the educational value of expensive technology investments. "
Michelle Krill

Harry Harlow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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learning transfer

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  • Wisconsin General Testing Apparatus (WGTA) to study learning, cognition, and memory. It was through these studies that Harlow discovered that the monkeys he worked with were developing strategies for his tests. What would later become known as learning sets, Harlow described as “learning to learn”.
Michelle Krill

Colleges Cutting Lectures, and Costs - The Atlantic - 0 views

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highered competencybased shift

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  • Michelle Krill on 05 Oct 15
     
    "Called competency-based education, this new model looks at what students should know when they complete a certain degree, and allows them to acquire that knowledge by independently making their way through lessons. It also allows students who come into school with knowledge in a certain area to pass tests to prove it, rather than forcing them to take classes and pay for credits on information they already know."
  • Michelle Krill on 05 Oct 15
     
    What about the social factor?
Michelle Krill

Neuroscience For Kids - memory experiments - 0 views

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memory

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  • Michelle Krill on 04 Oct 11
     
    "some experiments and games to test your memory. Also, don't forget that there are some memory tricks and techniques at the end of this section!"
Michelle Krill

Multiple Intelligence Test - 1 views

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multipleintelligences MI

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  • Michelle Krill on 13 Nov 13
     
    "Psychologist Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences suggests that there are many different kinds of intelligence. In which area do you perform the highest? Take this 10-question quiz to discover your which of the multiple intelligences is your greatest strength. "
Michelle Krill

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

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byolms flipped pedagogy peercoaching memory

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  • 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.
  • Michelle Krill on 17 Apr 14
     
    "Balkanski"
Ting Mi

How Many of Your Memories Are Fake? - 3 views

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memory

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  • Ting Mi on 07 Oct 15
     
    When people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory-those who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago-are tested for accuracy, researchers find what goes into false memories.
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behaviorism

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    Sidney Pressey and his Testing Machine
anonymous

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine - 2 views

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  • Because it disrupts concentration, such activity weakens comprehension
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      Amanda Baker on 20 Oct 11
       
      With all the focus on reading scores on standardized tests, this is not a good sign! Kids need to practice reading critically for comprehension and deeper understanding. That won't happen if they are reading with all the extraneous tasks mentioned here.
  • On the Net, we face many information faucets, all going full blast. Our little thimble overflows as we rush from tap to tap. We transfer only a small jumble of drops from different faucets, not a continuous, coherent stream.
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      anonymous on 20 Oct 11
       
      Good metaphor
  • “The current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicate,” Small concluded, “but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Oct 11
       
      Rerouting your neural connections is not necessarily bad, just different.
  • Michelle Krill on 18 Oct 11
     
    "The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains"
Michelle Krill

Education Week - 0 views

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behaviorism grit research conditioning

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  • The outcome, as it's usually represented, is that the children who were able to wait for an extra treat scored better on measures of cognitive and social skills many years later and had higher SAT scores. Thus, if we teach kids to put off the payoff as long as possible, they'll be more successful.But that simplistic conclusion misrepresents, in several ways, what the research actually found.
  • The outcome, as it's usually represented, is that the children who were able to wait for an extra treat scored better on measures of cognitive and social skills many years later and had higher SAT scores. Thus, if we teach kids to put off the payoff as long as possible, they'll be more successful.But that simplistic conclusion misrepresents, in several ways, what the research actually found.
  • It's not that willpower makes certain kids successful; it's that the same loose cluster of mental proficiencies that helped them with distraction when they were young also helped them score well on a test of reasoning when they were older.
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  • Almost everyone who cites these experiments assumes that it's better to wait for two marshmallows—that is, to defer gratification. But is that always true?
  • The inclination to wait depends on one's experiences. "For a child accustomed to stolen possessions and broken promises, the only guaranteed treats are the ones you have already swallowed," remarked a group of social scientists at the University of Rochester.
  • Perhaps the broader message for educators is this: Focus less on "fixing the kids" and more on improving what and how they're taught.
  • Michelle Krill on 11 Sep 14
     
    "The outcome, as it's usually represented, is that the children who were able to wait for an extra treat scored better on measures of cognitive and social skills many years later and had higher SAT scores. Thus, if we teach kids to put off the payoff as long as possible, they'll be more successful. But that simplistic conclusion misrepresents, in several ways, what the research actually found. "
Michelle Krill

Educational Leadership:Building School Morale:Convert Stress to Challenge - 1 views

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stress

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  • peguyer on 22 Oct 14
     
    Framing problems as challenges can alleviate the stress when faced with something that seems overwhelming or impossible. Individuals that view problems as challenges often have less stress and perform better on difficult tasks such as tests/quizzes, presentations and projects.
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