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There was a study done in the 50s that found out that rats left unaided in water will drown in a few minutes because they feel hopeless. However, if they know there is hope of being rescued they will last for days.
Hope is a powerful feeling.
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…
When the kids in Skyler’s school want to tell a friend something in class, they don’t scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across the room. They use Google Docs. “We don’t really pass physical notes anymore,” said Skyler, 15, who, like all the other students in this story,…
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…
Source: Teach Computer Science & Coding to Kids – CS First Google’s CS First computer science curriculum is a set of resources to help students learn about computer science. The materials are geared for students in grade 9-14 and use Scratch as the programming environment. The curriculum is free to use and students do not…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The curse of knowledge is a relatively new idea, being coined in 1989. It is a state where a person with knowledge has problems putting themselves into the shoes of people without the…
Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10 Here is an announcement from Microsoft Build you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft today announced that it is bringing the GNU project’s Bash shell to Windows. Bash (Bourne Again SHell) has long been a standard on OS X and many Linux distribution systems, while the default…