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Does mood affect how well you do homework?
Interesting discussion around how a student’s mood affects retention of material covered in homework, from the students at Extreme Biology. What is your experience?Posted in Brain learning, Education,...
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Everything you wanted to know, but didn’t know to ask, about operating your...
I just learned something you’d think a 25-year veteran of computers would know: To highlight a word in text, double-click it. Granted, I rarely cut or copy just one word, so the advice is of very...
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Synesthesia? In every school
Do the math: 930,000 U.S. kids with synesthesia, out of 60 million students. (Okay, “synaesthesia” for the British search programs.) You might have one. A pyschologist in Britain did the research....
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A vision of students, today (thanks, Bug Girl!)
Bug Girl put this up, and you can watch it there and comment on it there in a lively and informative discussion, but it’s just too good not to show here: Teachers, show it to your colleagues, and...
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Education and teaching blogs, new ones, good ones
Good teachers constantly search for good ideas and effective ways to make learning fun, efficient and thorough. So the search for new material and new ideas is constant. Same on the web. Where are the...
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Calculus as fun
I used to love math tests. And math homework. When I knew the stuff, I’d start hearing Bach in my head and get into a rhythm of solving the problems (though I didn’t know it was Bach until much later...
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5 things to teach – Life lessons your supervisor doesn’t want to see on your...
It’s too short to excerpt — so here’s the whole thing. Over at The Elementary Educator, I found this list, “Five Things You Should Teach Your Students This Week (None of which are likely to be on your...
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What if we actually encouraged students to use technology?
This is the headline that roped me in, at The New York Times: “Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus into Rolling Study Hall.” And a short excerpt: But on this chilly morning, as bus No. 92 rolls down a mountain...
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What’s gone wrong in Washington?
Image by Derek Bacon, copyright The Economist 2010 Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president in Springfield, Illinois, on ground often trod by Abraham Lincoln. As did Teddy Roosevelt, Obama...
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Kicking U.S. butt even when we’re trying to study their language
Who gets the most out of this exchange? “This country doesn’t value teachers, and that upsets me,” she said. “Teachers don’t earn much, and this country worships making money. In China, teachers don’t...
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Watch my presentation or I’ll shoot this dog . . .
National Lampoon once ran a cover of a nice, spotted mutt, tongue out, looking sideways at a pistol pointing at its head. There was a sort of a caption: “If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill...
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Race to the Top: What’s a good job for a great bubble-guesser?
Education issues suffered here at the Bathtub over the past several months. Confession: I don’t like to write while angry, and thinking about education generally gets me there quickly. When I write...
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Quote of the moment: David Brooks, books vs. internet
Wisdom comes in keen insights: These different cultures foster different types of learning. The great essayist Joseph Epstein once distinguished between being well informed, being hip and being...
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“Smart” can be learned, and practiced — but probably not born
“I just can’t learn — my memory just doesn’t work.” Third time today I heard that excuse. It’s not true. A lot of what we do in education is based more on tradition than any kind of research — school...
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Banned Books Week! Are you with the banned, in 2012?
It’s almost gone, and I haven’t even posted on it yet: Happy Banned Books Week! We’re celebrating this week from September 30 to October 6 — you’ve got two more days. Can you identify each of these...
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Darrell’s corollaries of education + technology: No good work goes...
Does this 19th century engraving show the perfect learning situation? Alexander had no iPhone, no laptop; Aristotle used no PowerPoint, no grading machines, not even a chalkboard. Have we come a long...
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Quote of the moment: Neil Gaiman, on what keeps civilization from barbarism
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Found it on Facebook. Neil Gaiman: Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Looking for the citation of where Gaiman wrote that;...
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History of America, or art in America, or American art, or . . .
Brilliant piece from Grant Snider — history teachers, this should be a poster in your classroom, no? Art teachers? Grant Snider’s “American Art, exploring a country through its paintings” In the...
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Wisdom, a checklist about students’ use of technology
Cheat Sheet: What do you want kids to do with technology? By Bill Ferriter The Tempered Radical blog.williamferriter.com @plugusin “Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome,” Bill Ferriter says....
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If a student values education, he will overcome much
But, really: See what some students put up with, just to learn? Think you have it hard? These are children living in poverty in India, who are eager to receive an education! http://t.co/kqgEYsAqmm—...
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