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Phil Taylor

The More I Lecture, The Less I Know If They Understand - 0 views

  • A good lecture does more than convey facts or put problems on the board — it lays bare the cognitive processes that an expert uses to assimilate those facts or think his or her way through those problems.
  • Lectures provide the important opportunity for the lecturer to share the mental models and internal cognitive frameworks that worked for him/her when he/she was learning the content.
  • Since the lecture was invented in the era before the existence of the printing press – never mind the Internet – what is the role of the lecture in the modern era? Does it have great value? Or does it hang on by habit?
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  • the longer I speak, the less I know how my words are being taken and processed by the learner.
Phil Taylor

How important are high school courses to college performance? Less than you might think - 0 views

  • we believe that freeing up some curricular time to pilot alternative pedagogical approaches that would be studied may yield more evidence on what works for whom without the worry that students will be shortchanged by less drilling on subject content.
Phil Taylor

Here's the Secret to Raising a Safe, Smart Kid | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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    "Kids of media mentors were less likely to access porn, chat online with a stranger, and impersonate an adult "
Phil Taylor

Nine Stubborn Brain Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked by Science - 0 views

  • The reason we find it easy to believe the internet is making us dumber is because, in some ways, it's making us less self-reliant. Our GPS devices navigate for us and we neglect to remember things because we have Google search. That doesn't make us dumber, necessarily, but rather causes us to rely more on what psychologist Daniel Wagner calls transactive memory. This type of memory is actually very useful because it allows us to, in essence, store more data in less space.
Phil Taylor

Online bullying: Still way less common than in real life | Safe and Secure - CNET News - 0 views

  • Pew Internet & American Life Project for the Family Online Safety Institute and Cable in the Classroom--concluded that "[m]ost American teens who use social media say that in their experience, people their age are mostly kind to one another on social network sites." Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) of teens said that peers are mostly kind while 20 percent said peers are mostly unkind with 11 percent saying, "it depends."
Phil Taylor

A Less Discussed Take on Cyberbullying: Building the Culture of Empathy | Tij... - 0 views

  • here is something to be said about punishment vs. education. While public attention seems to be overwhelmingly focused on the former, especially in the aftermath of bullying cases that result in self-harm, the latter calls for critical reexamination of cultural values, a sustained effort at fostering a different pattern of social relations from early childhood.
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