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What is Active Learning? And Why it Matters

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Game-based learning. Collaborative learning groups. If this applied to the comparison of two medical interventions, the authors concluded, it would ethically compel that all participants be moved to the positive-outcome group! They can be challenged to look at a topic, question or controversy. That bears repeating.

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Blended Learning – How to Make it Work in the Classroom.

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To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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Active learning spaces

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Recently I wrote about collaborative learning spaces , and argued that we are entering unfamiliar territory. It appears that it no longer matters where learning occurs, as long as it is meaningful. Some might argue that learning that is situated is the most powerful. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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5 Tips for Student Engagement and Concept Retention

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Moreover, have students work together as a class to achieve a goal or get to the “next level” – this reinforces collaboration/cooperation over individualistic competition and comparison. Depending on the nature of the activity, group projects appeal to most types of learning styles. Reflect and Summarize In Various Formats.

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Have the wheels come off?

Learning with 'e's

A comparison between the two projects is quite helpful. On such project mentioned is Sugata Mitra's Hole in the Wall project (HITW), where computers are placed in villages and deprived areas for children to use with no evident teacher support. When compared to Negroponte's OLPC project there are clearly some differences.

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Behave yourself

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Often simple solutions such as the configuration of tables and chairs in the classroom can optimise good behaviour, promote useful collaborative learning relationships and largely eliminate the marginalisation of individuals. Dewey Experiential Learning 8. Ebbinghaus Learning and Forgetting Curves 10.

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Tips & Tools to Enhance Collaboration Between Tech & Curriculum

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Our educators are using Newsela’s categories of readings to find articles that lend themselves to comparisons or even the pro/con option in text set. Curriculum is the foundation for planning and learning for students. Teachers can assign two or more articles to the class or specific students to read. Dr. Matthew X.

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