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Using Digital Media to Enhance Educational Transfer

Using Digital Media to Enhance Educational Transfer | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.kristenswanson.org - January 16, 2013 10:25 PM
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Educational transfer is a key component of teaching. What can we do as teachers to help our students be able to take what they have been taught and apply it in new situations? This post explores this issue with a focus on how to use digital media to enhance the transfer. 

It discusses recent research that has been published by the National Academies Press, "Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century".

Learn about the three processes that take place when a student learns a new idea. "Check out (the) awesome chart from National Academies Press that summarizes twelve simple, research-based strategies for multimedia design." 
This post provides a glimpse of what you will find in the book. To go directly to the book (which you can download as a pdf for free) go to http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13398.

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Jean-Sebastien B. Miousse's curator insight, January 17, 2013 8:21 AM

Use these tricks to develop your methodology and metacognition shall be yours.
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Could Harry Potter and the Tooth Fairy Be the Key to Boosting Student Creativity? - Education - GOOD

Could Harry Potter and the Tooth Fairy Be the Key to Boosting Student Creativity? - Education - GOOD | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From www.good.is - March 24, 2012 8:37 PM
English researchers say children who watch magical scenes from Harry Potter are more creative than their peers who don't.

"...students who'd watched the clips containing magic significantly outscored the other group on creativity tests..."

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Davelyn E Leak's curator insight, November 3, 2014 2:07 PM

We have all imagined and used Harry Potter in real life situations at some point in our lives, its been with us since the 90's
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Bloom’s Revised Digital Taxonomy Wheel & the Knowledge Dimension | Eductechalogy

Bloom’s Revised Digital Taxonomy Wheel & the Knowledge Dimension | Eductechalogy | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From eductechalogy.org - March 4, 2012 7:54 PM

This wheel consists of the revised Bloom's taxonomy for the 21st century and the associated digital activities for each cognitive process. It is interesting how one can use the same tool across the cognitive domains. This implies that thw way one uses the tool helps develop the student cognitive process in higher order of thinking (HOT) and lower order of thinking (LOT)....

 

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The 8 Types Of Imagination | Edudemic

The 8 Types Of Imagination | Edudemic | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From edudemic.com - May 3, 2012 9:14 PM

"It has been said that imagination is more important than knowledge, and for any experienced classroom teacher it is easy to see daily evidence of this...

Dr. Murray Hunter of the University of Malaysia Perlis has listed the 8 types of imagination we use on a daily basis, with explanations for each." His definition "Imagination is a manifestation of our memory and enables us to scrutinize our past and construct hypothetical future scenarios that do not yet, but could exist. Imagination also gives us the ability to see things from other points of view and empathize with others."

Read on to learn the 8 types of imagination and links to additional resources.

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Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? | MindShift

Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? | MindShift | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From mindshift.kqed.org - March 22, 2012 7:30 PM

"What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather gnomic answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know."

This article looks at research in this area and provides a list of questions that one might use to have "students assess their own awareness." It also refers to the PISA report, stating “Students who use appropriate strategies to understand and remember what they read, such as underlining important parts of the texts or discussing what they read with other people, perform at least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment—that is, one full proficiency level or nearly two full school years—than students who use these strategies the least."

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Powerful Facts About Visual Communication | The Mindjet Blog

Powerful Facts About Visual Communication | The Mindjet Blog | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
From blog.mindjet.com - November 19, 2011 7:37 PM
Did you know that visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text? Or how about the fact that they are processed simultaneously?
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