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Silvia Fern

How About Values? And Ginger? - 8 views

How about teaching kids values? There was this one book called I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Peg Kehret that was a science of identity foundation guide to helping kids with values and helping the...

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Bronwyn Davies

Thinking Out of the Box: How the University of British Columbia School of Nursing Creat... - 3 views

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    "PeP allows students to enter log and journal entries about their clinical experiences that are tied to specific competencies as required by the CRNBC (College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia) and CNA (Canadian Nurses Association) provincial and national nursing organizations. … It also allows students to export their portfolio information outside of the system to use throughout their professional careers."
Robyn Jay

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME - 1 views

  • the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles
  • The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this "ambient awareness": by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don't think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask.
Robyn Jay

Calibrated Peer Review: A Writing and Critical-Thinking Instructional Tool | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    ELI Innovations & Implementations -
Robyn Jay

Some thinking on Education, from New South Wales - 1 views

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    "Darcy Moore is a deputy principal at a large high school in NSW, Australia."
Nigel Coutts

Celebrating the significance of creativity for educations future success - The Learner'... - 0 views

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    Our collective ability to learn and by doing so, adapt to changing circumstances through the acquisition of new skills and dispositions is what Edward de Bono refers to as EBNE; Essential But Not Enough. - What then might education need as it develops a response to times of rapid change?
Nigel Coutts

Questioning our Assumptions and Considering Multiple Viewpoints - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    In "Factfulness", Hans Rosling shares a valuable insight into why we must question our assumptions. In times when we are bombarded with information, when false claims abound, having a disposition towards scepticism seems vital. Rosling urges us to not only question the facts we are presented with but the internal biases which influence how we interpret these facts.
Nigel Coutts

Maximising student questions in the time of COVID19 - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    In this time of COVID19 and remote learning or emergency distance learning the value of encouraging students to investigate their questions should not be forgotten.
Nigel Coutts

Language moves for identity - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    What changes when we refer to ourselves or our students as members of the community of thinkers and learners that they are apprenticed to? What changes when we are mindful in our use of a language of identity?
Nigel Coutts

Perseverance and Mathematics - A mathematical journey to Mars - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    The landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars is an excellent catalyst for a discussion with students about the nature of Mathematics. It is a chance to inspire curiosity and wonderment and to do so through a mathematical lens.
Nigel Coutts

Moving Beyond Rote Learning in Mathematics - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    How do move from an emphasis on rote learning of procedures in mathematics towards a focus on mathematical reasoning?
Nigel Coutts

Agency and Mathematics - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    Of all the subjects that our students engage in, mathematics is the one most requiring an injection of learner agency. What is it about mathematics that engenders it to modes of teaching that are so heavily teacher-directed? How might this change if we seek to understand the place that learner agency plays in producing learners who will emerge from our classrooms with a love of mathematics and a deep understanding of its beauty?
Nigel Coutts

Six key messages for successful learning - The Learner's Way - 1 views

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    I recently had the opportunity to speak with a group of parents whose children are transitioning into a new phase of their learning. I used this as an opportunity to share some key messages for successful learning and thought I would briefly unpack these here.
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