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in title, tags, annotations or urlWhat If School Was More Like Twitter? « My Island View - 0 views
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What If School Was More Like Twitter?
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Twitter offers a great deal of variety in opinion
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Twitter offers us is the ability to respond to ideas and have a general discussion about those responses.
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Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com - 0 views
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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.
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second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor.
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the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
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Teachers' Domain: Home - 0 views
Study: Teenagers without web access are left 'educationally disadvantaged' (Wired UK) - 0 views
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Some have to ask friends or family to print off coursework and physically post it to them, while others are only able to do their work during school hours so have to rush everything. The same tools that helped students with homework were also social tools, like MSN Messenger, so students who felt left out educationally were also likely to feel left out socially.