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The ultimate guide to learning theories in education

Linways Technologies

And for centuries, ‘teachers dictating and students learning’ has it been. we intend to discuss some of those learning theories today. learning theory assumes the learner as essentially passive, who simply. alternatively decrease or increase the likelihood of a behavior. valuable and necessary to understand how we learn.

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Building a specifications grading course, part 2

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The first part, where I described the big picture of the course, its learning objectives, and what a "C" and "A" semester grade should mean, is here. Assessments and marks What will students do in the class, to demonstrate their progress toward the learning objectives I listed last time? Today, we get into the weeds.

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3 Great Special Needs Digital Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

Tech-infused alternatives to granular education activities such as note-taking, math, and reading allow students with specialized needs to use their abilities (strengths) to work around their disabilities (challenges). With Audio Notetaker, students move well beyond hand-written notes in their quest to learn. Sonocent Audio Notetaker.

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The care and feeding of helpful feedback

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This article originally appeared earlier this week at Grading for Growth , a blog about alternative grading practices that I co-author with my colleague David Clark. In one of the earliest posts on this blog, we took a look at what all of the different alternative grading systems out there seem to have in common. What is feedback?

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The 12-week plan for building courses

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This term is stolen from the business world and refers to activities that help students get acclimated to the systems and culture of the class: Getting to know each other, learning about the focus and culture of the course, forming teams, learning the syllabus, practicing with the course technology, and so on.

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8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions

TeachThought - Learn better.

Questions can be extraordinary learning tools. built around the idea of questions as learning tools. TeachThought Learning Taxonomy. The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy is a template for critical thinking that frames cognition across six categories. 8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions.

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Ungrading after 11 weeks

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Last semester, when I learned I would be teaching Modern Algebra a third-year level course on number theory, rings, and fields in January, I knew I wanted to make some changes to how I'd taught it in the past. I wrote about that in my previous post. One of the changes I decided to make was to make a full-throated leap into ungrading.

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