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Courage in Complexity
Read More: Courage in ComplexityThree voices embrace the complexities of life and learning at this moment — and encourage us to push through them.
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Protagonists: Anna Gonzales
Read More: Protagonists: Anna Gonzales“…when a kid references something that another kid said in a previous class — that just shows, to me, that a kid deeply respects the humanity and intellect…
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Can Introverts Learn through Active Learning?
Read More: Can Introverts Learn through Active Learning?Active learning, at least at first, benefits extroverts more than introverts. What can we do about it?
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Office Hours with Natalie Nixon
Read More: Office Hours with Natalie NixonAn interview with Natalie Nixon, creativity wunderkind.
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Use Some Logic Today
Read More: Use Some Logic TodayArguing that the commonly upheld binary between logic and emotion is false, Eugenia Cheng suggests that we would all communicate clearly if we actively integrated both.
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Protagonists: Ghassan Gammoh
Read More: Protagonists: Ghassan Gammoh“All the magic is in the classroom.” I really agree — it’s the best place to be in a school. I was always thinking that I wanted to…
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Push Out Paraphrase
Read More: Push Out ParaphraseParaphrasing, by Bergman’s definition, is a retelling of what a student has just said in similar, perhaps clearer, words. He notes, though, that in such moments paraphrase a…
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Favoritism, Fun, and the Future of Learning
Read More: Favoritism, Fun, and the Future of LearningAs teachers, we’re taught not to play favorites, but that’s a difficult task. There are good reasons why.
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Social Presence in the Online Classroom
Read More: Social Presence in the Online ClassroomEveryone’s afraid of Zoom fatigue these days. Lowenthal and Dunlop ask their students how to make social presence possible online.
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Protagonists: Kendall O’Connor-Tappan
Read More: Protagonists: Kendall O’Connor-Tappan“The teacher who stands out in my mind is Ms. Hall, my Art and Art History teacher for all four years of high school. I don’t think I…