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Visual Thinking Strategies - What is VTS
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), is a school curriculum and teaching method that
* Uses art to develop critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills
* Asks educators to facilitate learner-centered discussions of visual art
* Engages learners in a rigorous process of examination and meaning-making through visual art
* Measurably increases observation skills, evidential reasoning, and speculative abilities
* Engenders the willingness and ability to find multiple solutions to complex problems
* Uses facilitated discussion to enable students to practice respectful, democratic, collaborative problem solving skills that over time transfer to other classroom interactions, and beyond
* Uses eager, thoughtful participation to nurture verbal language skills, and writing assignments to assist transfer from oral to written ability
* Produces growth in all students, from challenged and non-English language learners to high achievers
* Underscore connections to art and strengthens the role of museums as a valuable resource in students’ lives
BBC - CBBC - One Minute Wonders
Watch loads of videos on One Minute Wonders. You can see exclusive Missit Minute clips, print and collect your own Wonder Cards, play the quizzes and save your favourite videos to watch again and again
Drop GCSEs. We should be teaching our children to think | Peter Hyman | Comment is free | The Observer
Peter Hyman: Politicians should stop worrying about whether tests are being 'dumbed down' and provide pupils with the right tools for life
Trying to learn how learning works - USATODAY.com
"New insights from many different fields are converging to create a new science of learning that may transform educational practices," begins a report led by Andrew Meltzoff of the University of Washington in Seattle. The review in the current Science magazine makes the case for psychologists, neuroscientists, roboticists and teachers combining to quietly create a new field that combines everything from how brains grow to how classrooms work into a new kind of learning research.
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So, how could that work? Three principles, "across a range of areas and ages" come across in the new learning research:
•Learning is computational. Even infants and toddlers possess innate capabilities to see and hear patterns, something psychologists doubted decades ago. Reinforcing those capabilities by teaching patterns early might sharpen kid's brains.
•Learning is social. People, even infants, learn better through social cues. We "most readily learn and re-enact an event when it is produced by a person," Meltzoff and colleagues write. "Social factors also play a role in life-long learning — new social technologies (for example, text messaging, Facebook, and Twitter) tap humans' drive for social communication," they add.
•Learning is brain-circuitry driven. Brain cells fired up in both perception and action overlap in people, which allows students to identify with their teachers and speed learning.
Do you want to know what works in education...ask your students. By David Andrade
Research studies, professional development, graduate programs, articles, and more all talk about what works in education. Much of this is written by researchers and others that haven't been in a classroom in years, if ever. I find that much of their advice is good, but I often wondered what the students thought.
TenMarks - Bite Sized Math Learning for K12 Students
take small bites, where students refresh, learn, and master concepts at their own pace, on their own time
YouTube - Janet Bowers' Course Design Learning Story, Feb 9 Part 1
In Janet's Math 241 class, students learn the Geometer Sketchpad Software. All the students are prospective high school math teachers. In this 1st design ite...
Visible Knowledge Project || Themes and Issues
In these projects, VKP researchers study the creation of multimedia projects in their classrooms. Though these projects--which combine multiple kinds of media, some old some new--students participate in the construction of, analysis, and dissemination of knowledge. In comparison to more "traditional" assignments like term papers, multimedia projects allow students to experiment in an environment where digital authoring represents new forms of critical analysis.
IMEJ Article - A Learner-Centered Approach to Multimedia Explanations: Deriving Instructional Design Principles from Cognitive Theory
How can we help students understand scientific systems? One promising approach involves multimedia presentations of explanations in visual and verbal formats, such as presenting a computer-generated animation synchronized with narration or on-screen text. In this paper, we present a cognitive theory of multimedia learning from which the following six principles of instructional design are derived and tested: the split-attention principle, the spatial contiguity principle, the temporal contiguity principle, the modality principle, the redundancy principle, and the coherence principle.
Jakesonline Wiki
This session provides participants with an understanding of how to design interactive and immersive learning environments by blending together a wide variety of different online media. Participants will have an opportunity to examine media rich resources that can be blended together through the use of embedding techniques. Participants will then learn how these resources, along with primary source content and more traditional online resources such as Web sites, can be combined together with contemporary learning platforms such as wikis and Google Earth to create dynamic learning environments for students.
2010 AERA Annual Meeting Theme:Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World
2010 AERA Annual Meeting Theme:
Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World
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2010 AERA Annual Meeting Theme:
Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World
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