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"Researchers have looked at the differences in cognitive function of people who have slept four or six or eight hours and how their brains function."

I believe sleep, rest and being relaxed play a huge role in our alertness and readiness to learn. Unfortunately, many children today are overloaded with activities and busy schedules. Coming to school stressed and tired is just another ingredient in the recipe for disaster. Maria Tovo

""We can finally say that you are not the sum of a letter grade, that your report card should not dictate where you will go and what you should do with your life." Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab interactive talks about blended learning and creating a personalized learning experience with help of technology and gaming. Games are the most popular form of entertainment and through participation they are an incredibly powerful data capturing tool. By knowing so much more about a learner and the help of collaboration we can revolutionize the way we deliver education and foster creativity in students."

IN RESPONSE to Chris Berdik's excellent article, "The End of Kindergarten" (Ideas, June 14), it is worth noting the view of the renowned Swiss developmental psychologist Piaget, who did extensive research into mapping the stages of cognitive development in childhood.

"These are the four different kinds of motivation: First, motivation can be intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is when you want to do something. Extrinsic motivation is when somebody else tries to make you do something. Secondly, there is positive and negative motivation. Positive motivation is when you want to get something - motivation towards some goal. Negative motivation is away from something you want to avoid."

Glynda Lee Hoffman mentioned the importance of the brain development in children's visual, auditory and motor processing. What I consonant the most with her work as a classroom teacher is that teacher might not able to understand the underlying reason for students' struggling. If we as a teacher could better understand the reason, we might be able to provide more personalized teaching to cater for students' need.

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.

"Good objectives help focus instruction on where it is needed most, reducing time and effort on planning, organizing, and delivering instruction."

"Strategic use of questions can deepen learning, build a growth mindset, and help students become more aware of their own thinking processes."

" it's a mistake to become overly invested in your video's "wow factor" at the expense of instructional integrity. "

"Flipped Learning Network (FLN) announced a formal definition of the term. They also released the Four Pillars of F-L-I-P™ and a checklist of eleven indicators that educators must incorporate into their practice. The group of experienced flipped educators also draws a distinction between Flipped Learning and a Flipped Classroom."

"Digital Writing for Classrooms A community where students engage in high-interest writing for an authentic audience and teachers help students grow through the entire writing process"

What a great resource. My students are terrified of writing and this website can help them overcome that. We are using Book Creator in our class and students love the digital aspect. Maria Tovo

"we know that people remain hungry for real, in-person connection. Adults have always enjoyed learning together-whether in book clubs, literary salons or meetup groups"

The article was published in 2004 and it foresee that Connectiviism would be the future of the education. Knowledge and learning has underwent significant changes after the emergence of current technologies. Learners are more likely to move into multiple and unrelated field. Besides formal education at school, informal learning become a more significant aspect and learners acquire knowledge through technologies, communities, work environment. Learning become a long lasting changed state because of the interaction between people and own life experiences.

The speaker David Brook has his book "The social animal" is NY Times bestseller book. And in this video he delves into a people are social animal and we are connected to people around us. It provides a new insight into a way of thinking about the role that our unconscious mind and emotions plays in our life.

This is an excellent book. I really enjoyed reading it and learning about the role of the mind and emotions and how the shape our lives and identity!Maria Tovo

The video talks about It delves into a more indepth questions, when simple motivation rewards and punishment doesn't work, what should we do to improve motivation. The real motivation is to create a "self positive image", a great identity.

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?

"A new study conducted by high school students finds that some youngsters do equally well on tasks when moving between their laptops, smartphones and other devices, compared to less media-obsessed teens."

"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."

"In the 21st century, we flip Bloom's taxonomy. Rather than starting with knowledge, we start with creating, and eventually discern the knowledge that we need from it."

.As I am trying to the Bloom's taxonomy in to the courses I create I found this very interesting

yes I am very excited to learn about this. My vision is to take this concept to Tamil teachers around the world for teachers who teach my language