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Can Everyone Be Smart at Everything? | MindShift - 0 views

  • “Our knowledge and our abilities are largely determined not by our IQ or some other fixed measure of intelligence, but by the effectiveness of our learning process: call it our learning quotient.”
Phil Taylor

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

How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom | MindShift - 0 views

  • TEACHING DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
  • “The challenge is giving them a sense of a digital footprint,”
Phil Taylor

Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work? | MindShift - 0 views

  • unless traditional teaching practices morph to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices can afford, some fear the promise will go the way of all the technology collecting dust in the corner of the classroom. Worse, it might eventually lead to what everyone unequivocally dreads: the mechanization of teaching.
  • “Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”
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