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in title, tags, annotations or urlOne Word Collaborative Slides Activity for Students - Meredith Akers - 0 views
Control Alt Achieve: 6 Googley Wintertime Activities for Kids - 0 views
TierneyBrothers - Google Active Learning Apps Bundle - 0 views
Curiosity Is a Unique Marker of Academic Success - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Yet in actual schools, curiosity is drastically underappreciated.
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The power of curiosity to contribute not only to high achievement, but also to a fulfilling existence, cannot be emphasized enough.
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When Orville Wright, of the Wright brothers fame, was told by a friend that he and his brother would always be an example of how far someone can go in life with no special advantages, he emphatically responded, “to say we had no special advantages … the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.”
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Learning Myths And Realities From Brain Science : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views
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The idea that individuals have different learning styles, such as auditory or kinesthetic, is a pernicious myth. Boser compares it to the flat-earth myth — highly intuitive, but wrong.
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Almost 90 percent of respondents agreed that simply re-reading material is "highly effective" for learning. Research suggests the opposite.
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On the topic of "growth mindset," more than one-quarter of respondents believed intelligence is "fixed at birth". Neuroscience says otherwise.
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http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/blogs/edutopia-finley-sponge-activities.pdf - 0 views
Activity: Feedback Action Planning Template | - 0 views
Students 'Self-Assess' Their Way to Learning - Education Week - 0 views
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Tacyana will be asked to determine how her own work stacks up to a model.
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Gust is one of a growing number of schools across the country where student self-assessment is one type of formative assessment that is woven into the school day.
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'Hey, wait a minute, kids have to be involved, too.'"
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How Ordinary Teachers Become Activists | Cult of Pedagogy - 0 views
Sponge Activities | Edutopia - 0 views
Academic Sponge Activities | Edutopia - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Teachit Timer - A Slick Classroom Activity Timer - 0 views
37 Activities Under $10 That Will Keep Your Kids Busy All Winter - 0 views
10 Great Classroom Icebreakers - 1 views
More Than Half of Students 'Engaged' in School, Says Poll - Education Week - 1 views
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Students who strongly agree that they have at least one teacher who makes them "feel excited about the future" and that their school is "committed to building the strengths of each student" are 30 times more likely than students who strongly disagree with those statements to show other signs of engagement in the classroom—a key predictor of academic success, according to a report released Wednesday by Gallup Education.
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"Many, many, many teachers, principals and superintendents have known for literally decades that if we don't engage students to care about being in school, that's going to get in the way of learning," he said.
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"One of the big problems with No Child Left Behind and even [the Common Core State Standards] is that we are only focused on students' cognitive learning,"
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