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Educator’s Notebook #214 (December 17, 2017)

    • CNN
    • 12/12/17

    A 2008 study found that sustained intense interests, particularly in a conceptual domain like dinosaurs, can help children develop increased knowledge and persistence, a better attention span, and deeper information-processing skills.”

    • Long View On Education
    • 12/10/17

    But as Kate Lacey notes, active/passive does not work as a simple binary, but as a fractal distinction, where what counts as ‘active’ shifts with context: listening is active in contrast to hearing, but listening counts as passive in relation to speaking, and both listening and speaking count as passive in relation to movement.”

ADOLESCENCE

ASSESSMENT

ATHENA

EARLY CHILDHOOD

    • New York Times
    • 12/14/17

    It’s not just that the Tulsa preschoolers were ahead of their peers academically when they got to kindergarten… When the researchers used the Tulsa data to project the impact of the program into adulthood, they concluded that because of those youngsters’ higher projected income and diminished likelihood of incarceration, every dollar invested in quality preschool could generate a two-dollar return.”

    • New York Times
    • 12/14/17

HIGHER ED

HUMANITIES

LEADERSHIP

LEARNING SCIENCE

PD

PEDAGOGY

READING/WRITING

    • Medium
    • 12/11/17

    It is our mission as English teachers to teach writing as a method of thinking, to re-mediate their writing for current and future circumstances and technologies, and to help our students find a sense of agency and empowerment in the act of writing.”

STEM

TECH

Z-OTHER

Issues

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Peter Nilsson

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