Sat.Jul 13, 2019

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Letting Your Learners Experience Productive Struggle

User Generated Education

I came into teaching through a non-traditional, backdoor route – through a graduate degree in counselor education and through being an adventure therapist, whereby I took at-risk youth on extended wilderness trips. There have been a plethora of lessons I learned through these experiences that have served me well as a teacher. As part of my counselor training, we were taught to not try to take away a client’s pain or struggle; that they often need to experience these struggles in orde

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Reaching the Quiet Kids in Class

Edsurge

As a student, my mindset was that everything needed to be perfect; anything less was unacceptable. Taking the risk to raise my hand in class, when I wanted to contribute my thoughts, was always a challenge for me. But none of my teachers ever seemed to recognize this; or if they did, they never acknowledged it. The thing is, I really wanted to contribute to class discussions.

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Google Keep Guide for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Google Keep is one of the best free note taking tools out there. It provides a wide variety of features that allow you to easily create and share notes and lists. And for mobile users, they have the.

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Creating Conditions for Growth through Strategic Listening

Reading By Example

I had spent 10 years in the classroom and three years as a teacher leader. I was about to enter my first year as a coach and I was overjoyed. Over the past 10 years, I had applied one of my core strengths from Strengths Finder 2.0 (learner) to soak up literacy knowledge. I was ready to share that knowledge with others with a heart of service. . I was naive.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Here Is Another Good Citation Tool for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

After posting the APA visual guide, somebody shared with us this excellent website called Formatically which we have already included in one of our lists in the past. For those of you not.

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