Posted in brain research, learning, research, social studies, teaching on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom.
So says John Medina.
Medina is the author of the new book, Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. He uses some nice [...]
Posted in history, learning, media literacy, social studies, teaching, technology integration on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Browsing through posts by several of my favorite classroom history guys and was able to spend some time over at Doug Belshaw’s site. And ran across a great site for you world history people, especially 6th grade.
Doug received an email from Andrew Chater who has created a wonderful site called Timelines.tv. It’s a very [...]
Posted in media literacy, research, technology integration, tip of the week on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
We all did research as K-12 students and pre-service teachers. Much of that involved going to the library, using 3×5 note cards to record the information we gathered and later using some sort of manual typewriter to create an annotated bibliography. I still remember (without any fondness) the amount of time I spent consulting style [...]
Posted in change, learning, teaching on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Was reading the latest Wesley Fryer post this morning about fast moving cheese and roller coasters. The cheese referring to Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese and the roller coaster to . . . well . . .
For now I will merely observe that the world of business can be extremely dynamic. This can be [...]
Posted in history, learning, social studies, teaching, technology integration, video games on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When is it okay to play in school? Even before NCLB, creative teachers were often told that their students played too much in class. “School is hard work, fun is not an option.”
And with the emphasis on test prep, test taking, test review and students in special test taking classes for next year’s test, teachers [...]
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