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How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off - The New York Times - 0 views

  • Second, what motivates people to practice a skill for thousands of hours? The most reliable answer is passion
Phil Taylor

Blending the Best: Better Learning for More Kids | RealClearEducation - 0 views

  • This experience can be—must be—much more than putting some lectures, worksheets, links or tests online. Blended learning opens up unlimited resources, makes daily student collaboration more practical and lets teachers respond to students instantly from across town.
  • Embrace a culture of change and instability, and adapt
  • Get students active in learning:
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  • A blended class can teach students to think critically and creatively, foster skepticism, and guide them to be adaptable, independent learners.
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MediaRoom - Press Releases - 0 views

  • This report shows that digital tools, content and resources can help elevate the competencies of teachers and also provide evidence of the value technology can bring to students’ learning experiences and outcomes
  • motivating teachers to change their traditional instructional practices to use technology more meaningfully with students
  • Teachers identified five essential elements
Phil Taylor

Google for Education: Computational Thinking - 0 views

  • Exploring Computational Thinking (ECT) is a curated collection of lesson plans, videos, and other resources on computational thinking (CT). This site was created to provide a better understanding of CT for educators and administrators, and to support those who want to integrate CT into their own classroom content, teaching practice, and learning.
Phil Taylor

4 Types of Accurate Rubric Descriptors for Improving Assessment Practice - 0 views

  • Rubric descriptors, which are the actual meat and potatoes of rubrics, need to be constantly tweaked to be easily understood.
Phil Taylor

5 Strategies to Demystify the Learning Process for Struggling Students | MindShift | KQ... - 0 views

  • The field of metacognition offers educators many techniques that are rooted in brain research, such as deliberate practice and interleaving. “But before you can even tackle these,” says Oakley, “you have to inoculate learners against the idea that they are stupid if they cannot figure things out first off. You have to teach them that faster is not always better.”
  • teachers can use in the classroom and share with students to help them demystify the learning process
  • 1. The Hiker Brain vs. The Race Car Brain
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  • 2. Chains and Chunks
  • 3. The Power of Metaphor
  • 4. The Problem of Procrastination
  • 5. Expanding Possibilities
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