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How can you tell if a student really understands something? 
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Foster more careful and grounded reading in students by asking questions of varying levels of difficulty.
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A Visual Primer On Learning Theory
Theories on how people learn are not new. Piaget, Bruner, Vygotsky, Skinner and others have theorized for years how it is we come to “know” things. Unlike many theories involving physics for example, it is unlikely that a single learning theory is “right,” and will ultimately prove other theories “wrong.” How people learn is complex, and any unifying theory on how it all happens that’s entirely accurate would likely be too vague to be helpful. In that way, each “theory” is more of a way to describe one truth out of many. 4 Traditional Theories Of Learning: ...
Adel M. Alharbi's curator insight,
February 7, 2014 11:21 AM
I like learning through visual concept! 
Dr. Amana Levi's curator insight,
February 8, 2014 3:58 PM
Subscribing to both Bloom and Vygotsky’s social learning theory and currently Webb's Depth of Knowledge allows educators to build upon a student's learning experiences by scaffolding and facilitating questioning techniques to guide students from simple recall to higher levels of creative and critical thinking, thereby allowing them to reflect on their own thinking process. The visual primer is the realization of what "good teachers" and "good leaders" do (i.e. - making meaningful connections and then synthesizing the information).
Dr. Amana Levi
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How To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, or Assessment.
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Rigor matters because it imposes cognitive load on students, forcing them to confront misconceptions, reconsider positions, separate the implicit from the explicit, and other critical thinking practices that distinguish shaky familiarity from true understanding.
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Wondering about the factors that determine the Cognitive Limitations Of Adult Learners in eLearning? Check this article to discover 6 Factors.
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Increasingly, educators are acknowledging and welcoming the relative advantages of social media into the teaching and learning process. From creating school Facebook pages to connecting students with
Noeline Laccetti's curator insight,
March 5, 2014 9:41 AM
Another way to start where the students are
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Motivated cognition is defined as "the unconscious tendency of individuals to fit their processing of information to conclusions that suit some end or goal." The end goal can motivate information ...
Bryson Walb's curator insight,
January 27, 2014 10:02 PM
Self-awareness and information literacy. See this is why counselors and librarians are appropriately classed as faculty at our institution. |
