Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.
second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor.
the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
Call it the "learning paradox": the more you struggle and even fail while you're trying to master new information, the better you're likely to recall and apply that information later.
Although cell phones have the potential to pose a number of problems in the classroom, technologies offered by cell phones can be harnessed to improve student learning
a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down.
As with learning to read, swim or play good football children will be much more effective social networkers with support, guidance and help than without
We need to educate young people to understand that it is wrong to write anything on a social networking site which you wouldn’t say to someone’s face
Second, Twitter and Facebook are, as has been well publicised, a groomer’s dream.