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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Actively look for opportunities to provide feedback through diverse means such as phone calls, paper notes, technology, and face-to-face conversations. Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2008), a study involving 735 workers was conducted to examine autonomy's impact on overall morale. & Ryan, R. 1994) Promoting Self?determined

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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#CoronaVirus, class closures and communication

Learning with 'e's

I earned my first degree in psychology largely by studying at a distance - at the British Open University. One meta-study database (established in 2004) shows that online learning (when done effectively) is at least as effective, if not more effective than traditional courses.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

Edsurge

It deftly, artfully captures just how inundated children — specifically, three girls over the course of one year — are these days, thanks to social media and all the other byproducts of carrying a small computer in your pocket everywhere you go. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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Standard deviation

Learning with 'e's

The proliferation of technologies such as smartphones, social media and email means employees are increasingly exposed to task interruption. Yes, technology in the workplace can be indispensable. However, technology can remove us one step away from the task, and can cause us to deviate from our focus.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with 'e's

So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Milgram theorised that it could be established that no-one is separated from anyone else in the world by more than six social contacts.

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Weekend Reading: Pollen Edition

ProfHacker

" Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias ," by Audrey Watters: "As a woman who writes online about technology, I have grown far too tired of ‘permission-less-ness.’ Social media has become a wild west for marketers aware that regulators can’t keep up with their online activity.