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Active Learning vs. Passive Learning: It’s All Active Learning

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Like many topics in education, the debate between “Active Learning” and “Passive Learning” relies more on philosophy than science and uses the word “learning” when what is actually being discussed is teaching.

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Science of Learning: Why it Matters

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark The science of learning uses research from a range of disciplines, including cognitive psychology, education and especially neuroscience to understand how learning occurs in the brain and how learning experiences can be most effective.

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Students are Education’s Most Under-Utilized Asset

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ” –William Butler Yeats In education, almost everything changes. Technology changes. 30,000 years ago, the height of technology was painting on cave walls near the village of Montignac in southwest France.

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Science of Learning: The Cognitive Principles

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Cognitive training (which is also called brain training) involves activities designed specifically to strengthen one or more cognitive skills.

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Leveraging the Power of Cognitive Ability

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark In the learning process, better teaching, better facilities and better technology are important, but those are external factors. More important are the internal capabilities and stumbling blocks that each student brings to the learning experience.

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Cognitive Skills and Math (Dis)Ability: Identifying the Links

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark While reading difficulties have been studied extensively in the last few decades, difficulties learning math have received less attention. Math disabilities, however, are as common as reading disabilities at 5 to 8 percent of the population.

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Grading Your School? How do They Rate in the Science of Learning?

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By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A number of state departments of education are working to remove the grading systems for schools that were established in the No Child Left Behind era. The idea behind those systems was that parents needed a simple way to understand how the schools their children attended were performing.

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