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Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real "Revolution In Education" | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • recent one-week study that compared the outcomes of two classes, a control class that received a lecture from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an experimental section where students worked with graduate assistants to solve physics problems. Test scores for the experimental group (non-lecture) was nearly double that of the control section (41% to 74%).
Phil Taylor

iPad apps and screen time for kids: learning or babysitting? - Harvard Health Publications - 3 views

  • The keys to beneficial screen time, she explains, are interactivity and adult participation,
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Harvard Education Letter - 0 views

  • ninth-grade English Literature class bent over their cell phones, furiously texting. They are engaged and on task, and she will soon have their thoughts on the possible consequences of Friar Lawrence marrying two star-crossed lovers in sixteenth-century Verona.
  • lessons around the capabilities of the dumbest phone
  • For such quick assessments, many teachers use the free Web tool www.polleverywhere.com to get instant feedback
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  • tudents told researchers that they learned best when collaborating with peers and, when asked to name their choice of technological learning tools, overwhelmingly chose smart phones over fancy new laptops.
Phil Taylor

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination | Harvard Magazine - 0 views

  • You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
  • I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
  • And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.
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  • Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.
  • What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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