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Vision Boards: Start the Year with a Visual Goal Setting Exercise

Catlin Tucker

It is also a great way to learn more about the students we will be working with this year. Students who prefer a tactile, offline experience can create a vision board on poster paper and sketch their images or create a collage from old magazines. Step 2: Select a Medium.

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity. As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 09/27/2018 - 15:46.

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Weapons of mass distraction

Learning with 'e's

Notice the one person who is reading a traditional paper magazine - this is rare, but raises questions about how large populations can be distracted by technology. In 2004 Mark Curtis wrote a book titled 'Distraction' which has the strap line 'Being human in the digital age'. 2004) Distraction: Being Human in the Digital Age.

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Tuesday Interview - Self-Education, Life-Long Learning, and the Importance of Intellectual Maturity

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I told him that I''m particularly interested in the topics of self-education, life-long learning, and accreditation and how they are changing because of the Web, and he agreed to an interview, but insisted (smile) that we also discuss his newest book, September University : Summoning Passion for an Unfinished Life. From [link] )'

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Harnessing the Maker Spirit: Dale Dougherty’s New Book, ‘Free to Make’

Edsurge

But in 2004, Dougherty leaned over during a cab ride and suggested they start a quarterly publication that would be like “Martha Stewart for Geeks,” complete with “recipes” for homemade projects and techie ingredients lists. Dougherty was going to call the magazine “Hack,” but his children didn’t get the name. “I Free to Make ($11.50

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How to listen actively (rather than deeply) in difficult or vulnerable conversations

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Last fall, I decided to improve my own listening by signing up to teach a workshop on it (deadlines are an excellent motivator for my learning). It still takes practice to use what I’ve learned, but recognizing where I was standing in relation to a mountain peak of “Great Listener” was a helpful first step. [The Covey, Steve R.

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June 2 - Interview with Cal Newport on "Being a High School Superstar"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Cal Newport graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2004, and earned a Ph.D His books have been taught in college classrooms and included in college textbooks, and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal''s College Journal, the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Flak Magazine, FLYP Magazine, and College Bound Magazine.

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