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Ryan Donnelly

Everything Bad Is Good for You by Steven Johnson | Quarterly Conversation - 0 views

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  • IQ scores have been increasing at an astounding and regular rate for the past 75 years.
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 11 Oct 12
       
      Would others agree that this has to have something to do with the amount of time and energy we are increasingly afforded to spend on education? We are becoming smarter about how to education students. Therefore people can pass down those developmental hand-ups to their children, so on and so forth for 75 years. 
    • Ryan Donnelly
      Ryan Donnelly on 11 Oct 12
       
      We also live in a more complicated world than people did 75 years ago, which requires people's minds to adapt to the changes that have come our way. 
Michelle Krill

Education technology: Catching on at last | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/...-and-then-worlds-catching-last

edtech transform flippedinstruction differentiation cai

shared by Michelle Krill on 16 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Online resources, from wikis to podcasts to training videos, are allowing both children and adults to pursue education on their own, either instead of learning in schools or colleges or as a supplement
  • Michelle Krill on 16 Jul 13
     
    "spend more time teaching and less time marking written work and leading pupils through dull drills of words and numbers"
Michelle Krill

Mystery solved: We now know what happened to Little Albert - 1 views

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watson littlealbert

shared by Michelle Krill on 18 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • “The search took them beyond the memorization of their lectures and textbooks, and for the first time, into the creative world of psychological research,”
Michelle Krill

Constructivism is a theory of learning that has roots in both philosophy and psychology - 0 views

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constructivism

shared by Michelle Krill on 14 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • 7.  Teachers serve primarily as guides and facilitators of learning, not instructors.  The role of the teacher in the learning process has often been a major factor in the apparent division between cognitive constructivism and social/radical constructivism.  Teachers, in the cognitive constructivist perspective, are usually portrayed as instructors who "transmit knowledge."  The teacher instructs, while the learner learns.  In actuality, in the cognitive constructivist perspective, the role of the teacher is to create experiences in which the students will participate that will lead to appropriate processing and knowledge acquisition.  Consequently, cognitive constructivism supports the teacher as a guide or facilitator to the extent that the teacher is guiding or facilitating relevant processing.  Contrarily, since social and radical constructivism eschew any direct knowledge of reality, there is no factual knowledge to transmit and the only role for the teacher is to guide students to an awareness of their experiences and socially agreed-upon meanings.  This teacher as guide metaphor indicates that the teacher is to motivate, provide examples, discuss, facilitate, support, and challenge, but not to attempt to act as a knowledge conduit.
  • constructivism is a theory of knowledge acquisition, not a theory of pedagogy;
mariatovo

Naming the Theories in Use - 1 views

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Learning theories and their applicability in K-12 education.

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  • mariatovo on 23 Sep 15
     
    While at #PS2015, a graduate student at BYU asked me, "What other theories are being applied in education?" That may be the best question of the year and one that every school and district leadership team should ask themselves. So, what theories are being applied to public education?
mariatovo

Mindful Assertiveness: 3 Simple Steps - 2 views

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behaviorism conditioning classical

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  • mariatovo on 15 Sep 15
     
    Effective assertiveness is a balance between your needs and maintaining the relationship with the other person. In any interpersonal interaction, the moment we ask for something or have to say no to a request, we are making a choice; my discomfort or theirs? Too often, we error towards one side or the other.
Michelle Krill

What the Heck Is Project-Based Learning? | Edutopia - 0 views

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pbl elevatorpitch edutopia

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  • PBL doesn't ask you to replace your content. It asks that you create a vehicle in which to communicate your content.
  • Michelle Krill on 01 Feb 15
     
    ""PBL is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution. Kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, not just at the end.""
  • Ting Mi on 03 Oct 15
     
    "Perhaps that skills fits within a unit based on a topic or a theme, but each lesson works independently and can function without being embraced in a unit that connects them all in a learning story. " Personally I can resonate with this comment. I agree that most of the foreign language textbook are theme based, which put vocabulary and grammar within the given theme. But between different themes lack of coherence or connection. But using PBL might be an effective way to make an connection. I would like to share a own example of using PBL.The PBL is design a Travel Itinerary. Students impersonate travel agent to design a 2 days travel itinerary which includes 3 places to visit and 4 meals, provide price, compare different travel plans and persuade buyers to purchase their own travel plan. So in the PBL they are incorporate skills from different themes "Asking direction" "Travel" "Weather" "Shopping". It is also mentioned in the article that PBL "prepare the students for predicted the future", the PBL stays as authentic as possible. Also, as an ongoing assessment, the PBL can be used independently in each assessment and then at the end combined into a big assessments.
Michelle Krill

Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation - YouTube - 1 views

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motivation TED pink

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  • Michelle Krill on 29 Sep 15
     
    "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."
  • Ting Mi on 03 Oct 15
     
    The TED talk further distinguish tasks into two types, and reveals that incentives doesn't work with the type of work requires cognitive skills. It points out that intrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery and purpose will work better to enhance efficiency. The situations in my classroom clearly backup this statement. Every time when I am doing simple translation word to word with my students in a timed situation, incentive such as candies, points work perfectly. Students performed well under that simply reward system. But when the task change into creating sentences with the given vocabulary, students' attentions shift from getting rewards to proving their ability or mastery. As a language teacher, I understand that as the difficult of the content increase, the effect of rewards decrease accordingly. To increase students' intrinsic motivation, cultivate self-motivated students is the key to success.
Michelle Krill

Interviews - Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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multitasking pbs frontline

shared by Michelle Krill on 04 Oct 11 - Cached
  • As a professor and as a teacher, we think a lot about how do you teach kids who can't pay attention or are distracted by irrelevancy or don't keep their memory neatly organized? It's a scary, scary thought.
  • So what we're seeing is less of a notion of a big idea carried through and much more little bursts and snippets. And we see that across media, across film, across, in Web sites, this idea of just do a little bit and then you can run away.
  • anytime you switch from one task to another, there's something called the "task switch cost," which basically, imagine, is I've got to turn off this part of the brain and turn on this part of the brain. And it's not free; it takes time.
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  • One of the biggest delusions we hear from students is, "I do five things at once because I don't have time to do them one at a time." And that turns out to be false. That is to say, they would actually be quicker if they did one thing, then the next thing, then the next. It may not be as fun, but they'd be more efficient.
Michelle Krill

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains - 1 views

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Wired multitask rewiring brain

shared by Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Brain activity of the experienced surfers was far more extensive than that of the newbies, particularly in areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with problem-solving and decisionmaking.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      Interesting
  • The evidence suggested, then, that the distinctive neural pathways of experienced Web users had developed because of their Internet use.
  • The depth of our intelligence hinges on our ability to transfer information from working memory, the scratch pad of consciousness, to long-term memory, the mind’s filing system. When facts and experiences enter our long-term memory, we are able to weave them into the complex ideas that give richness to our thought.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      Key fact from the text.
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  • And that short-term storage is fragile: A break in our attention can sweep its contents from our mind.
  • Imagine filling a bathtub with a thimble; that’s the challenge involved in moving information from working memory into long-term memory. When we read a book, the information faucet provides a steady drip, which we can control by varying the pace of our reading. Through our single-minded concentration on the text, we can transfer much of the information, thimbleful by thimbleful, into long-term memory and forge the rich associations essential to the creation of knowledge and wisdom. 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
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      This analogy would be great to use with students.
Michelle Krill

Resources | Project Based Learning | BIE - 1 views

bie.org/resources

byolms pbl bie diy

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  • Eric Millham on 17 Dec 14
     
    What a cool collection of resources. I had never heard of the Buck Institute for Education but it looks like they've assembled a good collection of resources for Project Based Learning that will help make a teacher's life easier. They have everything from rubrics to planning forms that range from specific to generic. Other resources are available for teachers to watch on their own time or for teachers to use for interacting with other teachers or trainers. Definitely worth your time to check out, especially if you use or are planning to use Project Based Learning with your students.
Michelle Krill

So You Want to Drive Instruction With Digital Badges? Start With the Teachers | EdSurge... - 0 views

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badges motivation

shared by Michelle Krill on 03 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • When you marry the concept of badging with technology, you get digital badges that allow a person’s portfolio of badges to be stored in one place and provide a record of subject or skill mastery
  • in the short run the best approach to scaling digital badging is not to focus on students, but on their teachers.
  • Michelle Krill on 03 Nov 15
     
    When you marry the concept of badging with technology, you get digital badges that allow a person's portfolio of badges to be stored in one place and provide a record of subject or skill mastery.
mariatovo

Six Tips for Brain-Based Learning - 0 views

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Brain based learning

shared by mariatovo on 17 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • mariatovo on 17 Nov 15
     
    In this free classroom resource guide, you'll get practical tips across the K-12 spectrum, as well as a reading list and a variety of resources to help you learn more about this fascinating field. To help your students explore their own brain power, we've also included a bonus project that will get students thinking critically about how they learn.
Ting Mi

Bring on the learning revolution - 1 views

www.ted.com/...binson_bring_on_the_revolution

learning

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  • Ting Mi on 24 Oct 15
     
    In this tedtalk, Ken Robinson challenges the way that standardized school education children. Robinson says."We are educating people out of their creativity," It advocates the importance of personalized learning style, which can encourage students' cultivate creativity.
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