A new DARPA project seeks to teach artificial intelligence to play jazz -- and suggests military generals may have more in common with musicians than chess masters.
“The College Board released its new Advanced Placement U.S. History teaching guidelines Thursday, following a year in which the previous framework was attacked for being anti-American.”
I have taught over 10,000 students over 63 years, the oldest now in their 80s. My primary focus has always been: What preparation leads to a meaningful and fulfilling life--and what does not?
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Excellent article on an education topic that deserves more consideration.
Sarah Blaine is the author at the excellent and thoughtful Parenting the Core blog. She recently explored the question of whether or not teaching is a profession, recounting a law professor who ar...
A 16-minute film on the life of Uttarakhand’s Makar Singh, his economic hardships and his efforts to uplift his community has won several awards and become a key teaching tool in universities across UK, US, Canada and Australia.
To develop a class of risk takers, administrators need to encourage faculty to try new teaching strategies so they model for their students risk taking, flexibility, and resilience when failure happens.
As educators we have to embrace as many, proven-to-be-effective teaching strategies as possible in order to be able to respond to the multiple ways learners learn. Restricting ourselves to one tried and tested - usually decades old - strategy risks alienating many learners who are growing up in a society with immediate access to information. Educators need an understanding of latest developments in cognitive psychology and neuroscience to inform just how we learn and from there what strategies to employ to meet the learning needs of all learners in our charge.
Science teacher Rick Teather explains how his previous career as a salesman influences his approach to teaching – and why the job is much harder in England than elsewhere in the world
David’s work as an empathy specialist is highlighted in his books Teaching Empathy, Building Classroom Communities, and the School of Belonging, and has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC news, and Forbes Magazine.
David is internationally renowned for using music as a catalyst for empathic dialogue and his teacher training sessions provide the tools for creating an emotionally safe learning community free from bullying and other forms of aggression.
The recent UK budget announced plans to allow universities that exemplify good teaching to increase their caps on fees, meaning they will be financially rewarded for good teaching practice. But how do you measure this?
Cross-curricular lesson plans can break down the walls between science, English, mathematics and art. Here are some ways to use STEM and STEAM learning.
It has been a good week for philosophy. The results of a year long study on the benefits of teaching philosophy to primary school aged children has just been published in the UK and the reports are positive…
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Every instructor understands the importance of teaching "critical thinking" skills to his/her students, but unfortunately the term has been relegated to the status of platitude, ensuring the educational status quo of students merely memorizing facts solely for the purpose of achieving high marks. Hopefully programs like the one discussed in the article will reverse this disturbing trend.
Police brutality against African American men has played out across the country in recent months. So a local man is teaching a class to help people avoid these confrontations. He’s also showing you...
American history classes teach us a lot about whose perspective we value. Often, South Carolina lesson plan examples show us that slaveowners' perspectives are given way too much legitimacy.
Goodwin and Hubbell fill this useful book with common sense, easy-to-apply tips and techniques, framed by a checklist of the 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching.
In their quest to produce efficient readers and writers, Virginia education officials are neglecting the most important part of young children — their minds [“What is making a first-year Fairfax teach...
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Fascinating and instructive exploration of approaches to how we learn and progress.
Well done mindmap about learning theories.
This one really helped me to see a bigger picture of the many Learning Theories and some of their connections.