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Humans thrive on visual stimuli, and interaction. We don’t want to hear about the latest tablet, or even read an article about it. We want to see it for ourselves. More than that, we want to experience it for ourselves. We want to press all the buttons, test out the apps, and personalize every feature. …
Beth Dichter's insight:
Research tells us that visuals are an important element of learning, and that when visuals are used in classrooms, yet many classrooms are based on text. This post looks at three areas: * Bringing Active Learning Back to the Classroom - How much of the time are the learners in your class actively participating as compared to passively listening? * Embracing Visual - Visuals help many learners understand complex subjects. Experts in many fields can look at images and quickly learn complex information. Are you teaching your learners visual skills? * Retrieving Practice - "By combining visual training with active learning, students can go from novice to expert in far less time than with traditional study methods." As many of us prepare to return to school embracing visuals and teaching our students how to interpret visuals has the potential to promote better understanding. This post provides some great pointers and you will find a link to the original research. 
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David Wilcox, of Musings on the Middle Years of Education, and I have worked together to create an infographic about the teen brain. It is based on a blog post he wrote over a year ago (Click here ...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Do you understand the teen brain? This infographic explains how "teens forgetfulness may be due to major changes in their brain. These changes can last into the college years." This is a long infographic with three sections. Section 2 looks at the question "Why is my teen so forgetful?" and Section 3 will provide ideas on how you may help your teen. Although designed for parents this is a great infographic for teachers to gain a better understanding of the current research on teens and their brains. The final section of the infographic provides references. You may download this as a single file or download each section independently.
Audrey's curator insight,
December 5, 2013 3:24 PM
Thanks for this Beth. I will add this to my tutorials for students. It is very helpful, Audrey. Also have a look at www.hotmoodle.com. 
David Baker's curator insight,
December 8, 2013 1:01 AM
I plan to share this at the School Accountability meeting I am chairing next week. We have a standing agenda item - the middle school student. This is a great resource and in a great format to start conversations at school and home.
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Project Tomorrow is a national, education nonprofit organization. Our vision is to insure that today's students are well prepared to be tomorrow's innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world.
Beth Dichter's insight:
Have you wondered what students views are on digital learning? Not just the students in your school but students from across the U.S.? For Digital Learning Day a survey was conducted and some of the results have been published. This post provides a top ten list of students views on digital learning. Below are a few of the points, but additional information is available (including statistics) if you click through. 1. Use the Internet to help with homework at home? 2. Learning any time, any place, any pace. 3. What do kids think about flipped classrooms? 4. Pixel or print, what is your reading style? Take these questions into your classroom and see if your students agree or disagree with the survey findings.
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I really like this article, because it confirms for me that the programs and support we offer on eduPLEX is based on pedagogies that reflect the K-12 student's views on digital learning.
Thanks for the web-site. It's fascinating!
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"It’s an age-old saying, “Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.” What separates good teachers from the excellent ones? The excellent ones are handing out fishing poles; creating a culture in the classroom of independence and self-reliance. These students don’t just recite facts or regurgitate information- they have learned how to learn. They know that if the answer isn’t in front of them, they have the tools to do the investigation and research."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post provides 20 suggestions on "how" you can "develop a culture of 'can' in our classroom." Below are five of the suggestions. Click through to see all of them as well as more detailed explanations. * Make it a safe place to fail * Encourage curiosity * Give your students a voice * Use natural consequences * Model how to learn
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"Decades of research clearly demonstrate that for novices direct, explicit instruction is more effective and more efficient that partial guidance. ..Small group and independent problems and projects can be effective – not as vehicles for making discoveries, but as a means of practicing recently learned content and skills..."
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We are living in a historical moment of transformation and realignment in the creation and sharing of knowledge, in social, political and economic life, and in global connectedness. There is wide agreement that we need new models of education suited to this historic moment, and not simply new models of schooling, but entirely new visions of learning better suited to the increasing complexity, connectivity, and velocity of our new knowledge society...for more info go to http://connectedlearning.tv
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"A new study shows that we are far better at remembering what we see and touch than what we hear."
Beth Dichter's insight:
How do we learn best? This is a critical question for educators to understand and to keep up-to-date with research, and this post from the National Geographic looks at new research that shows that our auditory memory is not as robust as our visual and tactile memory. Much more information is available in the post but the shorthand is that having students engage as many senses as possible is the best way for us to reach our learners!
David Baker's curator insight,
March 13, 2014 4:33 PM
Important to remember that we structure classrooms to support learning.
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A new Stanford study shows that students learn better when first exploring an unfamiliar idea or concept on their own, rather than reading a text or watching a video first.
Beth Dichter's insight:
What is the best way to flip a classroom? Perhaps it is not showing videos first, but allowing the student to experiment first and then watch videos or read material. This study shows that students experimented first had substantial improvement in performance. This study used a specific "new interactive tabletop learning environment, called BrainExplorer, which was developed by Stanford GSE researchers to enhance neuroscience instruction." Based on the use of this environment students did better exploring first. The experiment is described and data is shared in this article and it shows that the group who experimented first had a significant improvement in their final score. There is an explanation as to why they chose the field of neuroscience as their goal (quoted from post below): “Part of our goal,” the researchers write, “is to create low-cost, easy-to-scale educational platforms based on open source, free software and off-the-shelf building blocks such as web cameras and infrared pens so that our system can be easily and cheaply deployed in classrooms.” The article also notes that this 'many educational researchers and cognitive scientists have been asserting for many years: the “exploration first” model is a better way to learn.'
Ra's curator insight,
July 21, 2013 5:43 PM
Implications for fabric tech in relation to systems. Trial and error as the lead in. Provide basic skill set and try to evolve the understanding of the systems and processes required to achieve identified outcomes.
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"You don’t mean to bore students. In fact, sometimes you’re downright interesting–the students are engaged, the buzz in the room is palpable, and even the hesitant students are asking questions. But the fact of the matter is, even the most charismatic and experienced teachers bore students sometimes. But the good news is, it may not be your fault."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post begins with a quote from Plato who "advised against force-feeding of facts to students" (those are not his words, but his words follow this quote) and then moves to the present day and what we know about learning based on neuroscience research into learning. Read about how "stress and curiosity edits which sensory information", how the brain has evolved and must make choices about which information to process based on the multititude of "sensory information" being received. This system, the Reticular Activating System or RAS, determines what passes from the lower brainstem to the higher regions. Other sections include how the brain receives threats and that when it is not under stress the brain is ready to be engaged and learn. Learn ways to work with students so they are engaged and learning, and willing to answer the question "What did you learn in school today?"
Audrey's comment,
February 4, 2013 5:57 AM
Teaching is a two way process. Students of all ages should be encouraged to take a more active part in their learning. When students say to teachers "we want the lesson to be more fun". Why can students not explain what "fun" means? Why can they not demonstrate, using the learning materials how they would like the subject presented in a fun way?
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Have you checked out Learnist? It is one of the newer educational social networks. This post suggest ten ways you could use Learnist in your classroom. Although geared to high school students the ideas are useful in most grade levels. Each suggested way to use Learnist includes ideas to help you create a Learnist board for your class. Ideas for using Learnist include: * Organizing materials * Collaboration * Combatting boredom * Teach research skills Check out the post for additional ideas as well as links to some learning boards!
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According to new research, both males and females do worse on a spatial reasoning task when they’re told that intrinsic aptitude accounts for the gender gap in the test’s results—even though the gap favors men...
Mia Barchetti's comment,
February 25, 2013 1:13 PM
This explains the main stereotyping between genders. It gives me examples of how to determine the main differences.
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Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning.
Madison Totushek's curator insight,
August 27, 2015 5:08 PM
I found this article to be interesting because of how society currently views teenagers using social media. One could think that it is a distraction of getting school work done, but this study has proven that assumption to be wrong... in a way. I personally believe that social media can be distracting if we are laying in bed scrolling through our endless twitter or instagram feed instead of doing homework. This study has shown that if people are using social media in an academic context, then it can actually be somewhat beneficial. The group that was using twitter actually showed more engagement in the subject as well as a .5 increase in their GPA. 
Sylvia Sanchez's curator insight,
February 8, 2016 5:31 PM
This article talks about how tweeting class discussion help students become successful. There has been studies on students and how using social media has help the students more engaged towards the class. This article is more towards teachers to help their students be more successful in their class. It also helps students be more engaged in what is going on in their classrooms. 
Kelly O'Hara's curator insight,
February 14, 2016 7:07 PM
My opinion of this article is split in half; I don’t like incorporating technology into something like a homework assignment, as technology is already a huge enough deal in society today, but because everyone in my generation is so obsessed with technology, and social media like instagram and twitter, if someone provided a way to keep their students more engaged in the class through a medium more age appropriate, and it worked, then that’s pretty genius. Being eighteen, all my friends have instagram, twitter, tumblr and snapchat. All the time, my friends pressure me into making an insta profile, as I only have a snapchat, which is enough social media for my taste. I’m obviously not the only teenager with a dislike for social media, but it’s hard to avoid. There are so many people wrapped up into it, that it becomes something they couldn’t bare to live without. And because doing homework isn’t exactly the most exciting and fun thing to do, incorporating social media into it makes it seem more entertaining and therefore of course more people are going to become engaged. So overall, even though I’d personally be more annoyed, I think the idea of incorporating twitter in the classroom was a good way to keep the students of this generation engaged. |
Seems like a good idea.