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Ten ideas for interactive teaching | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 1 views

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    While lecturing tends to be the easiest form of instruction, studies show that students absorb the least amount of information that way. Interactive teaching methods are an effective way to connect with a generation of students used to consistent stimulation-and education professor Kevin Yee has some advice for how teachers can make their lessons more interactive.
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Interactive teaching methods double learning in undergraduate physics class - 0 views

  • Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class,
  • students in the interactive class were nearly twice as engaged as their counterparts in the traditional class
  • scored nearly twice as well in a test designed to determine their grasp of complex physics concepts (average score 74 per cent vs. 41 per cent, with random guessing producing a score of 23 per cent). Attendance in the interactive class also increased by 20 per cent during the experiment.
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  • During the experimental week, Deslauriers and Schelew gave no formal lecturing but guided students through a series of activities that had previously been shown to enhance learning, such as paired and small-group discussions and active learning tasks, which included the use of remote-control "clickers" to provide feedback for in-class questions
  • These activities require more work from the students, but the students report that they feel they are learning more and are more vested in their own learning,"
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How To: Create an Interactive E-Book with Google Slides | Mr. Kamrowski - 1 views

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Modeling Instruction in Physics - 0 views

shared by Ron King on 07 Apr 13 - Cached
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    This channel showcases teachers using Modeling Instruction (and other reformed physics teaching methods) in their classrooms. Instead of relying on lectures and textbooks, Modeling Instruction emphasizes active student construction of conceptual and mathematical models in an interactive learning community. Students are engaged with simple scenarios to learn to model the physical world.
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Common Core Math Tools via NCTM - 0 views

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    Core Math Tools is a downloadable suite of interactive software tools for algebra and functions, geometry and trigonometry, and statistics and probability. The tools are appropriate for use with any high school mathematics curriculum and compatible with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in terms of content and mathematical practices. Java required.
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What A Billion Dollars Buys You - 0 views

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    At FORBES, we're asked a lot what it takes to live like a billionaire, so we created this interactive with Column Five to explore how different net worth levels-from working wealthy to super rich to filthy loaded-changes your options. Items chosen are plausible purchases based on the level of funds one has in the bank, earning a steady interest rate. How you behave is up to you.
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