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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

The CoolCatTeacher

YouTube Video - Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App 10 Minute Teacher Podcast - Audio Podcast - Episode 836 Stream by clicking here. Again, to give Forte's building a second brain. I now using tags in Evernote. If you see mistakes I missed, please leave a comment and let me know.

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Forgetting is a Feature, Not a Bug: How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts

Edsurge

The way teaching is typically done just doesn’t match how the brain actually learns. Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student's brain is a sheet of paper. That’s actually wrong,” says Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT.

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Evernote - new and improved and a great app for Education (and more)

Educational Technology Guy

Evernote relaunched a couple of years ago with a whole new code-base to make it easier and faster to deploy to multiple platforms and provide updates. Tasks lets you set reminders and due dates, tags and even assign to someone, and see all of your tasks in one place, no matter what note the task lives in. Tasks is another new feature.

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Teen Genius Says “I Learned Nothing from Lecture”

The CoolCatTeacher

Gitanjali Rao talks about her learning journey on episode 556 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter She was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2017 by the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, with a patent-pending device to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques.

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Bringing World Class Presentations Into The Classroom With Slidebot

EdTech4Beginners

If you look at the slides used in these types of presentations, they tend to have the same characteristics: they are simple, predominantly image-based, and contain minimal text. This is a great way of creating deeper neural connections within those student brains. Let me know what you think, by leaving a comment below.

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Coding or Critical Thinking?

EdTech4Beginners

Still, I am not convinced that all students need to focus on coding per se as much as they will benefit from the skills that are acquired while learning how to code. All human brains like challenges that are properly scaffolded. To be involved in EdTech is to interact with articles , TED Talks , and apps that encourage coding.

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14 Effective Self-Directed Learning Strategies

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Today, we’re exploring the concept of self-directed learning strategies. Indeed, once you understand how to foster self-directed learning, it’s like unlocking a whole new world of educational potential. You’ll definitely want to read “What is Self-Directed Learning?” Resnick (Ed.), Morris, T.

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