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Empatico: A Breakthrough Way to Promote Empathy (And It’s Free)

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve been collaborating globally since 2006 and have created more than 30 global collaborative projects in that time, co-winning the ISTE Online learning award with that first project in 2006. A comparison of majority-race children with and without a minority-race friend. See Lease, A. M., & Blake, J.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

Yet, if students in other nations took the NAEP, only about one-third of them would also score Proficient—even in the nations scoring highest on international reading comparisons (Rothstein, Jacobsen, & Wilder, 2006).

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Sir Ken Robinson: A Brief In Memoriam [guest post]

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like most of you that knew Sir Ken Robinson’s impact on education, I first learned about him through his wildly popular TED Talk in 2006. As Sir Ken says in the video above, perhaps the better comparison is not the factory as much as it is the monoculture-based industrial farm. .

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To the Citizens of BC

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011. Catalogue-no-81-595-M-No-099-Statistics-Canada ).

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, students who tended to read books more often on digital devices scored only 15 points higher than students who rarely read – a difference of less than a year’s worth of learning. Across OECD countries that participated in both assessments, reading performance fell back to what it had been in 2006. years of learning.

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6 Practical Blended Learning Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

’s Study In the study “ Using Blended Learning in Training the Public Health Workforce in Emergency Preparedness ,” Moore and colleagues (2006) investigate the utility of a blended learning approach in public health emergency training. Moore et al.’s M., & Winters, S. Why Did You Blend My Learning?”

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The Importance of Developing Spatial Skills for STEM Success

MIND Research Institute

The study found that participating students showed improvement in spatial language, visual-spatial reasoning, 2D mental rotation, and symbolic number comparison. The activities involved concepts like finding lines of symmetry, proportional reasoning (amount of tiles to fill a space), composition, and visualization. References. Caswell, B.,

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