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Phil Taylor

5 Reasons Teenagers Act the Way They Do - Mental Floss - 0 views

  • Risk Taking
  • This means teens literally cannot come to a decision as fast as an adult.
  • scans showed that the reward center of the teen brain became much more active in the company of their peers
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  • Giving in to Peer Pressure
  • Lack of Concentration
  • While teens may look more like adults than kids, to a neuroscientist their brains resemble a child’s.
  • Overly Emotional
  • That means that if you are expressing an emotion—say, disappointment—a teen’s brain has a 50% chance of misinterpreting it as a different emotion, like anger.
  • Getting Dumber
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

@shareski's Right: My Students CAN Assess Themselves! - The Tempered Radical - 1 views

  • "There won't be ANY grade attached to these tasks," I explained.  "Instead, you are going to evaluate yourselves.  Then, you will get feedback from me on the first assignment and a peer on the second assignment."
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