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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.
Video Preferences in Flipped Classrooms
Instructor-designed and alternative content videos are excellent choices for flipped classrooms, but remember that learners still need ease of access to the kernels of information, so consider accompanying videos with transcripts for highlighting and notes.
Learning and Navigating in Hypertext
Learners in the 21st century excel at and are empowered by non-linear information flow, including hyper-text learning, but still need to develop important skills for managing the flow of data, making decisions regarding the process, and curating data from wide-ranging sources.
Self-Assessment for Metacognition in Learners
Self-regulated learners utilize metacognition and self-assessment to recognize areas of growth and potential areas of development to improve facility with new material.
31 Years Later Clark Denies Influence of Media on Learning
Clark, Richard & Feldon, David. (2014). Five common but questionable principles of multimedia learning. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. 97-115. 10.1017/CBO9781139547369.009. Clark and Feldon share the second installment of corrective action against a field of study which has been moving progressively onward since the time of Clark's initial article entitled "Media Will Never Influence … Continue reading 31 Years Later Clark Denies Influence of Media on Learning
The Facility of Online Instruction
Huang, Hsin-chou (2014). "Online Versus Paper-based Instruction: Comparing Two Strategy Training Modules for Improving Comprehension." RELC Journal. 45(2)165-180. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0033688214534797 Huang studied fifty-seven English as a Foreign Language students in a reading strategy instruction setting in order to assess the comparative impact of online instruction and paper-based instruction, during a single-session, four-hour contact. Participants were … Continue reading The Facility of Online Instruction
Reading in a Digital Age
Annotated Bibliography Baron, Naomi S. (2017). Reading in a digital age. Phi Delta Kappan. Vol 99 (2), 15 - 20. https://doi-org.cmich.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0031721717734184 Baron's article presents a brief survey of prior research on the comparison of comprehension levels between reading print text and reading digital versions. While acknowledging distinct variations in interest, facility, and comprehension at different … Continue reading Reading in a Digital Age
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