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3 tips to make inquiry a part of your IB lesson plan

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Chin, 2006). In fact, pedagogies that immerse students “in a learning environment that values questions” makes all the difference in their ability to ask “good quality questions” (Chin, 2006). By definition, this is the goal of education. With or without an answer, learning how to set a question is a worthwhile experience.

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5 Ways Adobe Premiere Rush Encourages Creativity in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

For example, since I started teaching moviemaking with my students in 2006, I have used a Storyboard Dictionary of shots that I originally adapted from the American Film Institute. I love that this works with their individual mobile phone cameras. Often, I start teaching film by having students create a living shot dictionary.

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How one city has been tackling the swelling scourge of brain drain

The Hechinger Report

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. We definitely are talking a lot about that,” said GSoft’s Pradon. Photo: Alex Tran for The Hechinger Report. “We

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Humanizing technology

Learning With Lucie

A similar sense of excitement came over me as I discovered the collaborative power of Google Docs in 2006 and I quickly set up St. This comment definitely informed my process of making that I'm going through with this emerging project idea - "a mobile studio for creating and making collaboratively".

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. ”( Holmes & Gardner 2006 ). (7). Mobile Learning. A Definition for Digital Citizenship (Heick 2012). Revisions: Persistently updated. ” (9).

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Cooper's definition is similar to the one found in Cambridge Dictionary which defines homework as "work that teachers give their students to do at home" or as "studying that students do at home to prepare for school". There is way more to homework than what these general definitions outline. Synthesis of research on homework.

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10Q: Cathy N. Davidson

Learning with 'e's

For eight years (1998-2006) I was essentially the R and D person for the university, Duke's first full-time Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies (the first anywhere in the US in fact), charged with innovation across all eight schools of the university, and with the delicious mandate to "break things and make things."