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What should students in high school and college English classes read? Whether you think they should be reading Ovid and Melville, or only books written by diverse, contemporary authors, or books with no explicit sex, or books with no explicit violence, most people have an opinion on how and what teachers teach in thei
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One in four American adults went to a healthcare provider for neck and back pain, according to a 2016 Gallup study. In addition, the report found 65% of adults sought care for neck and back pain at some point in their lives. When you factor in how many adults are hunched over computer desks, sitting for extended periods of time at work and bending their neck to read mobile devices, these statistics aren’t so surprising.
Just about everyone has been told to “stand up straight” at some point in their lives—and it turns out that mom was right. Posture is a key element to good health. It is right up there with eating healthy, getting enough sleep and exercising. Bad posture can lead to back, neck and jaw pain, breathing difficulty, balance issues and joint problems. A recent study also found that good posture can improve your mental wellbeing.
Many American workers suffer from neck and back pain, and sitting at desk all day is not helping. Here are five work habits that can lead to bad posture along with advice on how to fix them.
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Ever zone out while someone is talking? Of course. We all do. The average human has an eight-second attention span. With electronic distractions competing for your time and an abundance of responsibilities at work, it makes listening attentively to someone else speak pretty difficult.
“We are living in a time when it’s more challenging to be consistently aware and intentional because so many things are demanding our attention. Our brains haven’t caught up to the technology that’s feeding them,” says Scott Eblin, author of Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. “The impact of this leaves people in a chronic condition of fight or flight.”
Humans have an average eight-second attention span. You’re going to need to do better if you want to get things done.
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“I can’t do it!’, he shrieked. His 7-year-old frame shook, fist curled he glared at me. Furious that I had put him in this position, or with himself – it was impossible to tell. Today was clearly tough for this student – much of it spent huddled beneath the teacher’s desk. Too many half hour lessons, too many transitions compounded by having me, a supply teacher.
Plus, whatever else was happening in his life.
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Look into the key elements that are needed to re-design an appropriate learning space for 21 century.
The purpose is to improve teaching and learning.
Rescooped by malek from All digital |
Possible instructions for educators on how they can work together with the learners… Knowing the tools for 21st Century Learning is primordial to give ===> quality courses. <===
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Tim O’Reilly, Karen Cator and Shelly Blake-Plock weigh in on why K–12 leaders should care about it and other (r)evolutions in technology.
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some useful apps and web tools to use to add text to pictures and create classroom posters. Students can use these tools for different educational purposes including visually explaining a given topic, creating greeting cards, designing inspirational quote posters and more.
- Quick- Add text to photos fast
‘The fastest app for adding text to photos. Perfect for busy people who tell, sell, buy, share, organize, memorize, and more.Quick has a super slick, streamlined experience that lets you add stylish text to your photos in the blink of an eye!’
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Online learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more from Stephen Downes
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An in-depth article and infographic on how blended learning is changing education.
Technology has changed education and has expanded student opportunities. Get the scoop!
Analysis of more than 1,000 learning studies by the department of education show blended learning environments have the greatest impact in improving student achievement.
We cover three main types of blended learning models; traditional, hybrid and flipped. We also tackle five common misconceptions about blended learning: http://tiny.cc/BlendedLearningPotential
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"I am keenly aware that many of my colleagues are not, for various reasons, gung ho about educational technology. And it’s interesting. Quite often, the teachers who are hesitant to adopt new technology are great — in fact, amazing — educators. They are frequently veterans and usually leaders in their academic field and within their institutions. "
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Advice from Common Sense Media editors. From communication to motor skills, learning through play is a wonderful motivator for kids with challenges.
Raising a child with special needs make us special
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This generation will see the biggest shift in education in the past century. Here are 24 websites replacing your degree.
the greatest shift in modern history
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Technology provides us with endless possibilities to create immersive learning experiences for our students. Comic creation is one solid example of a digital activity to engage students in creative meaning-making activities. There are now numerous apps that are designed specifically to help learners express themselves through comics. Besides engaging in multimedia tasks that involve the use of text, character building, images, shapes, speech bubbles and audio, comics creation provides students with opportunities to develop a number of key skills such as , communication, group work, digital storytelling, writing and many more. In the collection below, we have selected for you four of the most popular iPad apps for creating comics.
Cartoons give life to those boring and mal-crafted lesson plans, and promote students engagement
It has been suggested that digital storytelling may enhance students' engagement in learning.
Poignant discussion on utilizing digital storytelling in teaching by Leona Ungerer. Some strategies for implementation stemming from research findings can be found here: http://bit.ly/digitalstorytellinglearning
Poignant discussion on utilizing digital storytelling in teaching by Leona Ungerer. Some strategies for implementation stemming from research evidence can be found here.
Poignant discussion on utilizing digital storytelling in teaching by Leona Ungerer. Some strategies for implementation stemming from research findings can be found here: http://bit.ly/digitalstorytellinglearning
Poignant discussion on utilizing digital storytelling in teaching by Leona Ungerer. Some strategies for implementation stemming from research evidence can be found here.
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There are quite a few apps you should know about. We went through and compiled dozens of the best apps for teachers who don't have time to do so themselves!
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Keeping learners motivated throughout an eLearning course is a challenge for even the most seasoned designers. What is the key to motivating learners and ensuring they stay on track throughout a course? The trick is to line the design with elements that promote motivation before, during, and even after course completion.
Beat the motivation challenge by building anticipation before the course, engaging the learners consistently throughout and keeping them thinking long after the course ends.
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Women with money and education tend to get and stay married in America. Why don’t working-class women do the same?
As the likelihood that a woman will find the ‘right’ man declines, the women come to expect less from men generally. And while men enjoy the ability to enter into more relationships, they respond to women’s greater suspicions by becoming even less willing to commit.
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Pakistani teenager and Indian children’s rights activist beat Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, the Pope and Vladimir Putin to the prestigious prize
Because it takes one sound in the wilderness of terrorism
"The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born."
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Millions of girls don’t have choices: the choice to go to school, to have a career, and choose if, who and when they marry. Not only is this unjust, it’s also a huge waste of potential..
Given the fact that 2/3 of the world illiterates are women, all help is needed to break this vicious circle
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Ninety million girls around the world are denied access to education.
Malala made history, the world had to listen.
"Education activist Malala Yousafzai marks her 16th birthday on July 12th, by giving her first high-level public statement on the importance of education at the United Nations"
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There's a lot to know about how you draw your letters. Your penmanship says a lot about you. Through the study of it, you can learn a lot about yourself.
When neat, it's a woman's handwriting (mostly)
"In her book “Handwriting in America: A Cultural History,” Tamara P. Thornton noted a 1910 handwriting expert’s study on identifying sex differences in penmanship, which concluded that confident, original script is interpreted as masculine, whereas neat, conventional and circular are considered feminine"
Currently, dramatic changes take place in terms of rapidly emerging modes of communication, technologies, increased cultural diversity, evolving workplaces cultures, new challenges for equitable education and the varying and changing identities of students everywhere. Bearing this in mind, this article draws on a design-based research study to argue of the need for museums to respond to global trends and fulfill their social and educational imperatives by investigating the potential of a particular pedagogical framework that is grounded in culturally inclusive pedagogical practices and characteristics of ubiquitous learning.