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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

Edsurge

Even back in 2001, an in-depth study of an online-education effort at the State University of New York reported that most faculty who taught remotely found the techniques they discovered online positively impacted their campus instruction when they returned to the classroom.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

Edsurge

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. That it's strengthening, essentially, through the right kind of mental exercise.

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Gaming Builds Valuable Life Skills

EdNews Daily

Wonka’s factory is an imaginative place in which the visiting children are free to exercise their decision-making abilities, and they must live with the consequences. Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised) shows that these higher-level thinking skills include understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001).

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How to Transition from Summer Break to the First Days of School

Waterford

Back to school crafts, get-to-know-you activities, and team building exercises are all great ways to encourage a friendly classroom environment. Educational Review, 2001, 53(1), pp. One of the most common predictors of difficulties for students in transitioning back to school life is a lack of friends.[2] Kyriacou, C. O’Brien, L.

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Schools bring mindfulness to the classroom to help kids in the Covid-19 crisis

The Hechinger Report

Doug Worthen guided his small class of ninth graders at Middlesex School through an exercise designed to focus their attention. Smith and others guide the students through yoga and tai chi exercises before instructing them in a breathing exercise. Credit: Jena Brooker for The Hechinger Report.

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PROOF POINTS: Should parents value academic achievement or academic growth in a school?

The Hechinger Report

Of course, this was just a hypothetical online exercise and it’s not clear that anyone would really make these moving decisions. The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act that required annual testing was intended to help spotlight and improve schools where student performance lagged.

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Changing Learners, Changing Methodologies

A Principal's Reflections

Instead of giving students mindless worksheet exercises to complete for homework, where they have to wait until the next day to receive feedback and can easily copy off each other, I am planning on using the quiz function on Edmodo. Both my students and I are familiar with the layout without even having to explore it too deeply. Prensky, M.

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