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For those raised in the information age, life without the internet is no life at all. It is often a primary focus of a teen’s day (75% of teens are online several times per day) and an important means by which they communicate with the world and take in new information. While information can be […]
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Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for instructors to include notes regarding laptop and internet use in their course syllabi. Many instructors ban the use of electronics, including laptops, due to the assumption that these machines may be more distracting than helpful during class time. However, students often argue that they can take better notes on their
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One of education’s primary goals is to groom the next generation of little humans to succeed in the “real world.” Yes, there are mounds of curricula they must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. Other skills must be honed, too, not the
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Pause and Think: “Why do we really need sleep?” Imagine you’ve been up all night revising for an important test. Right now, the test questions are facing you with intimidating blank spaces for you to fill in your answers. All the questions seem familiar but you just feel too tired to think clearly. Towards the
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Libraries collect the vast stores of human knowledge and imagination. A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. A library’s collection can
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Getting the most out of a mathematics textbook will require more than just skimming through the text. Below are some tips for helping you get the most from your mathematics text. 1. Focus on concepts, not exercises. The most important material in a math textbook is found in the prose, not in the exercises at
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If you ask a student what makes him or her successful in school, you probably won’t hear about some fantastic new book or video lecture series. Most likely you will hear something like, “It was all Mr. Jones. He just never gave up on me.” What students take away from a successful education usually centers
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Teachers are the arbitrators of knowledge and culture. Knowledge and culture are each dynamic, endlessly crashing and churning. This makes teaching significantly important and difficult work and can leave teaching—as a craft—wide-eyed in response. Worse, those outside the bubble of education can understandably struggle to understand the problem. What are they teaching in those schools
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What strategies can we use to improve vocabulary? What does the research say? According to Jane Harley, Strategy Director for UK Education at Oxford University Press, “Language is at the heart of education and we believe that more needs to be done to address the issue throughout school and give teachers support to make a difference
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How to create smooth transitions That might sound odd – of course schools are ready for transition, that’s what they exist for. But the point is more subtle, and it forms the first of ten points/tips I’d like to make. 1. Have realistic expectations Schools need to be ready for the children who will actually
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