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Consistency
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The book Atomic Habits introduced me to the 1% rule, making marginal improvements over the long haul. If you were to get get 1% better a day, that’s 37.78% improvement over a year….
Sharing: Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say
Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say : NPR In the study published in Psychological Science, Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles sought to test how notetaking by hand or by computer affects learning. “When people type their notes they…
Sharing: Why Open Education Resources Matter #GoOpen
Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Why Open Education Resources Matter #GoOpen Might not be the best example but that’s what happens to educators everyday. We rarely have anyone knocking on our doors but the fact is there is a lot of money in a closed system of education resources. Educators face, on a…
Sharing: 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us
9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us – Will Richardson Lately, I’ve become increasingly frustrated with our unwillingness to acknowledge these “elephants in the (class)room,” if you will, because the new contexts for modern learning forged by the networked world in which we now live are creating an imperative for new ways of…
Martian perseverance
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. On February 18, 2020, NASA landed the rover Perseverance on Mars. Half of all Mars missions end in failure, who knew it was so hard to land on a planet millions of…
5 ways to not repeat yourself in your classroom
There are only so many times you can say “Johnny, stop hitting your sister” before it feels like banging your head against a wall. The same goes for teaching – there’s only so many times you can teach the same material before it feels like groundhog day. Here are 5 ways to mix things up…