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Why listening to audiobooks is as good as reading books

Why listening to audiobooks is as good as reading books | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Some people may not like it, but listening to audiobooks also counts as reading, and here's why ..."

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How using a little sign language can improve online K-12 classes

How using a little sign language can improve online K-12 classes | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Nonverbal communication such as American Sign Language can help students and educators in every grade feel more connected ..."

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Why storytelling works in eLearning

Why storytelling works in eLearning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"One of the most effective ways to convey information in eLearning is by getting your audience to care about the content. Creating relatable content via storytelling can help establish a genuine connection, increasing engagement and comprehension. Reasons Why Storytelling Works In eLearning Stories have incredible influence on humans, both intellectually and emotionally. Why? Stories communicate …"

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Eight ways to annotate readings, websites and online articles with examples 

Eight ways to annotate readings, websites and online articles with examples  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"One of the most important skills for our digital learners is inspecting the information they consume with a critical eye. ..."

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Rewordify.com | Understand what you read

Rewordify.com | Understand what you read | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand better, learn new words, and teach more effectively ..."

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Integrating literacy into STEAM lessons -- THE Journal

Integrating literacy into STEAM lessons -- THE Journal | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Both Common Core and NGSS emphasize the importance of speaking, listening and communicating about mathematical and scientific concepts. Integrating literacy tools into STEAM subjects does more than help students and teachers fulfill objectives. Better literacy helps students identify and more thoroughly understand key concepts ..."

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Interactive periodic table finally clues us in to what elements are used for

Interactive periodic table finally clues us in to what elements are used for | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Looking at the periodic table, most of us have no issues identifying the use of certain elements. Sodium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and others are no-brainers but what about the less talked about elements ..."

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Graphic novels in the classroom: A teacher roundtable

Graphic novels in the classroom: A teacher roundtable | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Four teachers discuss how using graphic novels has enriched their instruction, strengthened student comprehension, and engaged their most reluctant readers ..."

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Speed reading promises are too good to be true, scientists find

Speed reading promises are too good to be true, scientists find | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Learning to speed read seems like an obvious strategy for zipping through the emails, reports, and other text we encounter daily, but a new report shows that the claims made by many speed reading programs and apps are probably too good to be true ..."

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Lost in a sea of yellow: Teaching students a better way to highlight

Lost in a sea of yellow: Teaching students a better way to highlight | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A lot of students are in love with their highlighters, sometimes using them to underline whole pages of text. But that's not how to tease out key concepts ..."

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App aims to boost comprehension by putting e-books to music

App aims to boost comprehension by putting e-books to music | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A startup that combines cinema-style soundtracks with the texts of popular books claims to be "transforming reading the way sound transformed silent film."

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Digital exit tickets are easy with this great new tool

Digital exit tickets are easy with this great new tool | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Exit tickets are a well-known tool for gauging comprehension, or as a strategy for formative assessment. Traditionally done at the end of class, on a piece of paper, teachers gather oneor two answers from students to see who grasped a concept, and to flag any difficulties
students may be having ..."

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Twenty-five reading sites and apps 

Twenty-five reading sites and apps  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"These are my favourite learning tools for reading, comprehension, and language arts ..."

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Eight engaging classroom tools to test this summer

Eight engaging classroom tools to test this summer | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"By Dominic Gibson ... Technology has become an increasingly essential ingredient in the modern classroom. The right tech tools can go a long way toward helping your students grasp and retain key concepts ..."

  1. Autodraw
  2. Whooo's reading
  3. Insert Learning
  4. Sway
  5. Common Sense Education
  6. Creaza
  7. Wakelet
  8. Animoto
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Using stories to teach math

Using stories to teach math | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Teaching literacy and math at once helps make the most of class time while deepening young students’ understanding in both subjects ..."

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Six domains of cognition: The TeachThought learning taxonomy

Six domains of cognition: The TeachThought learning taxonomy | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"How can you tell if a student really understands something?

They learn early on to fake understanding exceptionally well, and even the best assessment leaves something on the table. (In truth, a big portion of the time students simply don’t know what they don’t know. ..."

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When are digital media and tools WRONG for teaching and learning? — Emerging Education Technologies

When are digital media and tools WRONG for teaching and learning? — Emerging Education Technologies | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I think Hugh Beaulac raises some interesting questions in this article that are important to consider. The idea that digital resources might be more productively applied for some subjects and counter-productive for others is certainly worthy of a closer look ..."

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Report: Video captions benefit virtually all students -- Campus Technology

Report: Video captions benefit virtually all students -- Campus Technology | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The majority of students use video captions and video transcripts to help themselves improve focus, retain information, engage with material and improve comprehension, according to a new study from Oregon State University. However, many institutions do not offer captions or video transcripts despite a legal obligation to do so ..."

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Can you hear me now?

Can you hear me now? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"An educator shares how using a microphone while he teaches has improved student learning, comprehension, and behavior ..."

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Helping learners become fluent in the language of science classrooms

Helping learners become fluent in the language of science classrooms | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"We view school science as largely a practical subject, but pupils must understand the language of science – which is often very different from every day language – if they are to excel ..."

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Are millennials programmed to cheat? | Deseret News National

Are millennials programmed to cheat? | Deseret News National | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
"Stealing words is so simple a concept that a 5- or 6-year-old can grasp it, says plagiarism expert Jonathan Bailey. Even children comprehend the idea that presenting someone else’s thoughts or ideas as your own without attribution is wrong, Yale University researchers demonstrated ..."
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