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Last week, Harvard University and MIT announced that they are joining together to create a new online platform to host courses for free. Those who take a course. Via Kalani Kirk Hausman 
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In part seven of the Future Learning series, see how a public computer helped poor children in Hyderabad, India teach themselves English.
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Palm Beach School District gave students in elementary, middle, and high school settings iPads. They were popular to say the least - more than 90% of students polled expressed feelings of comfort and joy at incorporating the iPad into their classrooms.
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You probably think of your nervous system as a kind of computer network, or some kind of electrical system that passes nerve impulses around.
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Innovative software to help teachers stay at the forefront of the digital revolution in education has been developed by researchers funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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Smartphones are capable of many things, from identifying your location and bringing you the news to playing video games.
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Robots teach students to compete, cooperate | districts, competition, students, robotics, region, held, utpa, competed, immersed, valley (Robots teach students to compete, cooperate http://t.co/BA7iledK... Via Kalani Kirk Hausman
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Tapping out a beat may help children learn difficult fraction concepts, according to new findings due to be published in the journal Educational Studies in Mathematics.
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Music is an instant interest grabber! Youngsters which might be moving and dancing together with you might be undoubtedly involved within your lesson. (You are able to effortlessly see that they’re “with you.”) Plus, music can make info and details stay in long-term memory. An excellent example is the fact that even as adults, we are able to quite very easily keep in mind lyrics to songs we haven’t listened to for years, such as nursery rhymes and advertising and marketing jingles from our childhood years.
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If the combination of neuroscience, psychology and education (“Mind, Brain, and Education science) is the way we should approach teaching from now on, what exactly are the lessons we can apply to the classroom? Via Sarantis Chelmis, Sakis Koukouvis, Stefanos
Philippe-Didier Gauthier's curator insight,
December 24, 2014 7:47 AM
#DémarchePortfolio #Apprenance : les grandes transformations des apprentissages sont déjà là....
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An educator from New Zealand has compiled a set of quotes around teaching and learning that are reflective of why we should personalize learning. A few are selected here and begins with this graphic from Dr. Seuss, "Oh, the places you'll go!" Is this quote something we would want students to be thinking about each day?
From the author: "Students are born with a powerful desire to learn. Everything we do as parents and teachers must ensure that this powerful desire is kept alive. If there were to be one thing to be continually assessed it would be this desire..."
'We should turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.' - John Holt
'All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift'. - Peter Senge
'what a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow'. - Lev Vygotsky
The principle goal of education is to create men and woman who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done'. - Jean Piaget
'We are shaped and fashioned by what we love' - Goethe
'You cannot teach anybody anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.' - Galileo Via Kathleen McClaskey, João Greno Brogueira
Sakis Koukouvis's comment,
January 15, 2012 3:57 AM
One of the best collection of quotes about motivation and learning.
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Brains | We know that our species is unique, but it can be surprisingly hard to pinpoint what exactly makes us so.
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