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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Practical Strategies for Classroom Application The research consistently tells us that the application of brain-based learning principles leads to increased academic achievement, better behavior, development of appropriate social-emotional skills, and increased motivation. Lecture is a common passive learning practice.

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UDL and Blended Learning: Removing Barriers with Design

Catlin Tucker

Over a series of three meetings, my architect asked me countless questions about what I wanted in a home and how I used the space. This is a critical shift if we want to cultivate expert learners who are resourceful, strategic, and motivated. In much the same way, teachers must get to know their students.

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Practical Strategies for Classroom Application The research consistently tells us that the application of brain-based learning principles leads to increased academic achievement, better behavior, development of appropriate social-emotional skills, and increased motivation. Lecture is a common passive learning practice.

Science 130
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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard.

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Teacher Engagement Part I: Understanging Cognitive Engagement in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

Instead, teachers must strive to design student-centered learning experiences that challenge the students to think, discuss, problem-solve, collaborate, question, create, and reflect. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. What did they do well?

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Who You Gonna Call? A Harvard Lecturer's Quest for Equitable Class Participation

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So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.

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To Grade or Not to Grade? During Coronavirus, That Is The Question.

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That’s the view of Jesse Stommel, a digital learning fellow and senior lecturer at the University of Mary Washington. “I Studies suggest, for example, that grades can frustrate students’ intrinsic motivation and make them more focused on how they’ll be measured than on the material they should be studying.

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