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Learners, learning, and learning styles (20)

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Connie Weber

traits, ways-of-being, dispositions you love seeing in young people...

What traits, ways-of-being, or dispositions do you absolutely love seeing in young people--your students, your children, your children's ...

Started by Connie Weber

7 Jun 15
Reply by Cynthia Alvarado
ddeubel

Teaching the Learning Disabled. Thoughts, Strategies, Revelations.

As an educator, I've done a complete 180 when it comes to my teaching philosophy. I thought as a young teacher, that the teacher's role w...

Started by ddeubel

24 May 27
Reply by Connie Weber
Anna Billings

Men's Brains, Women's Brains

Here's a fun video on the differences between how men and women think. Lots of humor spiced with a bit of truth. What do you think? (and ...

Started by Anna Billings

5 Apr 26
Reply by Mary Burns Prine
Connie Weber

"Kicking Off," an article from NYTimes Sunday Magazine, on Marta, soccer star

"Kicking Off," an article from NYTimes Sunday Magazine, on Marta, soccer hero Here's the part I like, perhaps relevant to our discussion...

Started by Connie Weber

0 Apr 16
scott smith

The Most Successful Flop in History: What Dick Fosbury Taught Us.

On Friday, I attended some sessions about the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) at the MACUL conference. This led me to review some of ...

Started by scott smith

0 Mar 25
Connie Weber

A time you totally flubbed as a parent or teacher--

Thought it would be fun to share some of the Great Mistakes we've made. I'll start: Being a weather-watcher, I thought it would be a goo...

Started by Connie Weber

3 Mar 23
Reply by Connie Weber
Sean Nash

The Octopus Gets Due Respect

My last post was a highlight of a train wreck of a children's book. If you know me, you know that I don't like to dwell long on things ne...

Started by Sean Nash

0 Mar 22
scott smith

Metacognition

I've been learning for decades now and I don't seem to have a handle on the best way for me to learn things. My question is metacognitio...

Started by scott smith

16 Feb 17
Reply by Ian Carmichael
Ian Carmichael

Thinking, or bubbles

“We are teaching them how to think. But sometimes the Board of Ed seems to want them to learn how to fill in little bubbles.” I've just d...

Started by Ian Carmichael

2 Feb 16
Reply by Ian Carmichael
Connie Weber

"A Daughter's Struggle With Learning To Read" in StoryCorps

Listen to this story, told by a 10-year-old, about what it's like to have dyslexia. "'I wish people knew that it's not like an illness o...

Started by Connie Weber

0 Feb 7

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