A snapshot inside the Seattle Public Library, a place of many good reads and learning! 2019 has been a tremendous year of learning for me. From writing my first full book manuscript to presenting a…

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'Implementing #Small-Group #Activities in #Large #Lecture Classes' y examines #student #perceptions regarding the #effectiveness of small-group work ina large lectures - #comprehension #ReduceAnonymity '#studentaccountabilityhttps://t.co/DSAVvmrfsD pic.twitter.com/umUPiH4Eqv— Danielle M Hinton 👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍💻🌍 (@hintondm) January 18, 2019

Choosing the right tech tools for your teaching means making strategic choices, weighing costs against payoffs, and staying laser-focused on your course goals — and that is what this guide aims to help you do.

Here they are: 15 formats for structuring a class discussion to make it more engaging, more organized, more equitable, and more academically challenging.

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her ...

What baby George and Handstands have taught @mwesch about learning #highered #failure #watchthis

Pedagogy is a strange beast Many teachers first hear the word pedagogy when they enter graduate school. Until then, we are surrounded by it — we see it being modeled, enacted, and refined by our teachers — but we don’t talk about it explicitly. The term is foreign, as Cathy Davidson

All learning occurs in a social context. In any learning process you can be 100% sure that you will fail Learning is a process of disciplined mistake-making An environment of safety is crucial to learning

This is the video I made for the ADE 2015 application. I was ultimately selected for the Class of 2015 in Higher Education, so I guess it could be considered...

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RT @TeachBetterCo: An end-of-semester digital poster session - Teach Better (Inspired by @cs50 !)

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If you’re not familiar with the learning theory of “constructionism” advanced principally by Seymour Papert and now at the heart of the modern-day “maker movement,” th…

We should be deliberately teaching middle and high school students how to manage their devices.

RT @directhitsfan: Why college students do better when the teacher stops lecturing via @deseretnews RT @pocsmom

Students and professors: 8 brain-based learning / retention tips #highered

We have to carefully build our classroom and educational space online before we start populating it, lest text, hierarchical menus, and pop-up windows be confu…

A recent study found that those who take longhand notes--rather than type-- are better at long-term recall.

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