The Archaeology News Network: Swedish divers unearth Stone Age settlement
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Ness Crouch‘s insight:
Swedish Atlantis? Interesting!
Month: January 2014
Collaboration Matters
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Blogger’s note: This post focuses on the importance of integrating collaboration into classroom practice. In my next post, I’ll talk about strategies for successful facilitation of collaborative work…
Learning is a social process, and the learning process is deepened when ideas are challenged and learners are pushed to produce work that surpasses their expectations of what they can do.
That said, working in groups is a continually challenging process. It is important that students aren’t forced to work together on projects where collaboration isn’t necessary or beneficial to the final product.
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Training the Brain to Listen: A Practical Strategy for Student Learning and Classroom Management
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Editor’s note: This post is co-authored by Marcus Conyers who, with Donna Wilson, is co-developer of the M.S. and Ed.S. Brain-Based Teaching degree programs at Nova Southeastern University.
During the school year, students are expected to listen to and absorb vast amounts of content. But how much time has been devoted to equipping students with ways to disconnect from their own internal dialogue (self-talk) and to focus their attention fully on academic content that is being presented? Listening is hard work even for adults. When students are unable to listen effectively, classroom management issues arise.
Ness Crouch‘s insight:
Interesting insights. Worth a read.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Wellcome Images Releases 100,000 Images Under Creative Commons Licensing
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“The Wellcome Library recently made more than 100,000 drawings, photographs, paintings, and advertisements available to the world under Creative Commons licensing. The images available through the Wellcome Images library are primarily of a historic nature. You can browse the galleries or search for images by keyword.”
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Blended learning and the flipped classroom
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What exactly do these terms mean? How much online content is the right amount? What sorts of sites and apps should we be using? How can we convincingly recommend new technologies to students who are more technologically savvy than we are? Do we need a radical rethink of the way we present information to learners?
Ness Crouch‘s insight:
Excellent article…
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