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Leader-shifts
After watching a fifth grader standing confident before a class full of peers and parents to deliver a poised speech on Oklahoma, I got to watch my own son mumble through a presentation on Maryland. Now, his was actually more organized, including economy, … Continue reading
What is the purpose of education?
What does a railroad have to do with the purpose of education? It has more to do with what it should not be. So what exactly is the purpose of obtaining an education? If you answer “to learn” that is … Continue reading
Creating a team-like atmosphere in classes
Imagine a group of athletes from different sport that all have a general idea about playing positions in the other sports. However, they have little to no idea how their skills stack up against other in their group, whom they … Continue reading
Who is responsible for learning?
One of my friends mentions the local swim team as a possible activity for my children in the summer. For the first one it was a good fit. When younger he had taken a swim class, it had only two … Continue reading
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Tagged coaching, parents role in education, poverty, problems in schools, socio economic status, teaching
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Teaching academics like athletics?
Sometimes students wish academic classes were more like performance based sports, but how would it work? How do they respond differently to coaching for physical skill versus teaching a cognitive skill? Warm ups In athletics students spend time warming up … Continue reading
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Tagged attentiveness, coaching, effort, instruction, performance, teaching
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Living in a “weed-out” world
The move to on-line degrees in higher education has been occurring since the beginning of the twenty first century and predictions abound that this will happen for almost all college courses, by the time the pandemic subsides. Currently e-learning is … Continue reading
Group IQ
One of the tricks in getting groups to be more creative is tohave a hand in determining who goes into the group. A number of gurus on increasing group creativity will mention the need for greater diversity in groups. How … Continue reading
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Tagged diversity in teams, Group creativity, group IQ, negativity and creativity
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Stuck in a group
The concept of group synergy, the belief that combined abilities of people in groups produces better ideas than individuals is often praised. However, most research points in the opposite direction. Suppose your assignment is to work with a group to … Continue reading
Sweet solitude
Does group work encourage creativity? Not according to the art and writing instructors that I surveyed determine which classroom environments induced creativity. Encouraging students to work in groups is suppose to improve creativity, but most instructors observed the opposite result. … Continue reading
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