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Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Brought to life by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), our Wonders of the Day® will help you find learning moments in everyday life-ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs.

"Learning Bird is an online application that combines smart technology with engaging digital lessons made by real teachers. It uses grade levels, local curricula, course material, and lesson feedback to match the best lessons to each student. The library of digital content also supports teacher innovation and quality classroom instruction. Inspired teachers delivering student growth. "

"Although there are some open questions about the specific role of sleep in forming and storing memories, the general consensus is that consolidated sleep throughout a whole night is optimal for learning and memory. "

Credit: iStockphoto You've surely heard the slogans: "Our educational games will give your brain a workout!" Or how about, "Give your students the cognitive muscles they need to build brain fitness." And then there's the program that "builds, enhances, and restores natural neural pathways to assist natural learning." Read this article to separate fact and fiction about the brain and how it functions.

"One way to create a fully student-engaged learning environment is to allow students to explore content in four brain-based learning areas"

"The three major prominent learning theories are known as behaviourist, cognitivist and constructivist,"

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.

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This is an overview of cognitivism with roles and questions.

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.

THE HUMAN MEMORY Since time immemorial, humans have tried to understand what memory is, how it works and why it goes wrong. It is an important part of what makes us truly human, and yet it is one of the most elusive and misunderstood of human attributes.

More How a Paralyzed Man Walked Again Why Do People Lie When They Can Easily Get Caught? Some skills you don't need past graduation: geometry, cursive, the ability to dissect a frog. But memorization is not one of them. Far beyond your final spelling bee, your memory either saves you from-or delivers you to-public humiliation.

"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."

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"Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity."

"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."

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.