Game-based learning in civics, with the use of iCivic.org, enhances student learning in grades 4 through 8, but not in high school.
Learning Through Social Media
For a variety of reasons, social media can provide teachers with additional options for guiding students in responsive classroom-related dialogue using mobile resources.
New World Educators
The future of education depends upon migration from the delivery model to an adaptive, collaborative, multimedia, higher-order thinking, discovery experience in class, led by an educator who serves as a facilitator, lifelong-learner, guide, coach, and crafter of problems to engage learners in new challenges.
Fine-Tuning Feedback
Even with a highly knowledgeable group of learners, feedback and the immediacy of it makes a striking difference to a course, since a two-week delay in response can invalidate any positive impact of the process of peer evaluation.
Interrupting the Feedback Lapse
Students perform significantly better and internalize their success when provided with feedback in the form of comments over grades or none at all.
Very Interesting…
Learning tasks and problem-solving activities can take students from having a low-level, extrinsic interest in a classroom topic to a well-developed, intrinsic interest in a new area of learning facilitated by teachers and collaboration from peers.
Critical Review: Erhel and Jamet – Digital Game-based Learning
For a Critical Review of the following article, click on the document link below: Erhel, S. and Jamet, E. (2013). Digital game-based learning: Impact of instructions and feedback on motivation and learning effectiveness. Computers and Education. Sept. EDU800 Critical Research Review I LSchmidt
Impact of Blended Learning
All things being equal, blended learning increases student satisfaction and engagement.
Goals Determine Reading Strategies
Reading for study purposes engages the strategies of explaining, paraphrasing, and predicting, yielding better recall than what we read for the purpose of entertainment.
It’s Byronic: Short-notice Flip>>Long-term Gains
A "culture of innovation" empowers teachers to eliminate tired textbooks in favor of agile methods to meet the needs of differentiated learners through nimble alternatives and cutting edge content offerings.
EmpowerED 