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Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? | MindShift - 1 views

  • Teaching students good learning strategies would ensure that they know how to acquire new knowledge
  • Students who use appropriate strategies to understand and remember what they read, such as underlining important parts of the texts or discussing what they read with other people, perform at least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment—that is, one full proficiency level or nearly two full school years
  • Students can assess their own awareness by asking themselves which of the following learning strategies they regularly use (the response to each item is ideally “yes”):
Phil Taylor

Everything you need to know about the internet | Technology | The Observer - 1 views

  • We're in the state once described by that great scholar of cyberspace, Manuel Castells, as "informed bewilderment".
  • The idea is that our short-term memory can only hold between five and nine "chunks" of information at any given moment (here a chunk is defined as a "meaningful unit"). So, when trying to decide how many big ideas about the internet would be meaningful for most readers, it seemed sensible to settle for a magical total of nine. So here they are.
  • On a scale of one to five! You have only to ask the questions to realise the fatuity of the idea. Printing did indeed have all of these effects, but there was no way that anyone in 1472, in Mainz (or anywhere else for that matter) could have known how profound its impact would be.
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  • The internet: Everything you ever need to know
Phil Taylor

50 Brain Facts Every Educator Should Know | Associate Degree - Facts and Information - 1 views

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    What every educator should know.
Phil Taylor

Professional Development for Teachers - Developing a "PLN" - Part 1 - 1 views

  • “My God man…where do you find all this stuff?” “I don’t know how you keep up with all this…technology.” “You must spend all day in front of a computer…”
  • Discover what you need to know, and also what you don’t know – all at the same time
  • big issue for so many teachers like me is where do you find the time to test out new stuff.
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  • Imagine getting all these people together in the same room to personally help you become a better teacher!
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