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Warning signs that you and your campus are a bad fit

Warning signs that you and your campus are a bad fit | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The academic year is just underway, and it’s already time to consider whether to go back on the faculty job market ..."

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How school leaders can attend to the emotional side of change 

How school leaders can attend to the emotional side of change  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"When teachers, parents and students are asked to change how they have been doing things, it often involves an element of loss that doesn't get recognized in the ..."

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Pathways for affective learning in massive open online courses

Pathways for affective learning in massive open online courses | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"MOOC instructors typically find it easier to quantify and measure cognitive learning than affective learning, which relates to feeling and emotion. The authors examined four pathways for fostering affective learning in MOOCs to discover how students felt about the experience ...."

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Outrage in the time of social media: How Facebook, Twitter enable and empower rage - Firstpost

Outrage in the time of social media: How Facebook, Twitter enable and empower rage - Firstpost | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Will ‘anger management’ in today's world need a social media intervention as well? As outrage culture grows on Facebook, Twitter, that's a question we must consider ..."

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WeAreTeachers: Teaching the photo essay

WeAreTeachers: Teaching the photo essay | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The photo essay can be a great way to encourage your reluctant teen writers. And they'll have a reason to use their phones—which, of course, cheers them up! ..."

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It's not enough to be fast: How emulating human interaction is key to improving digital communication

It's not enough to be fast: How emulating human interaction is key to improving digital communication | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Neuromarketing expert Douglas Van Praet says to improve digital messaging, think humans before apps and feelings before words ..."

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Researchers track facial expressions to improve teaching software

Researchers track facial expressions to improve teaching software | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Research shows that software which tracks facial expressions can accurately assess the emotions of students engaged in interactive online learning and predict the effectiveness of online tutoring sessions..."

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What to do about those negative comments on course evaluations 

What to do about those negative comments on course evaluations  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"If there’s a downside to another academic year coming to a close, it’s reading course evaluations. This post explores how we respond to those one or two low evaluations and the occasional negative comments found in answers to the open-ended questions ..." 

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Fifty must-have picture books about emotions - WeAreTeachers

Fifty must-have picture books about emotions - WeAreTeachers | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"These picture books about emotion hit on grief, friendship, anger, kindness, challenges, identify, dealing with feelings and more ..."

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There’s an emotional side of edtech—and it’s affecting school innovation

There’s an emotional side of edtech—and it’s affecting school innovation | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Change management expert Rob Evans discusses how to understand the human side of integrating change in schools and manage the loss of control ..."

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The emoji is the birth of a new type of language (� no joke)

The emoji is the birth of a new type of language (� no joke) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"In essence, we're watching the birth of a new type of language. Emoji assist in a peculiarly modern task: conveying emotional nuance in short utterances ..."

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The psychology of emojis

The psychology of emojis | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Emojis have taken over my communication—and I’m far from alone. According to Swyft Media, 74 percent of people in the U.S. regularly use stickers, emoticons or emojis in their online communication, sending an average of 96 emojis or stickers per day ..."

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A new approach to education technology takes emotions into account - Slate Magazine

A new approach to education technology takes emotions into account - Slate Magazine | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Neuropsychologist David Rose spent years helping kids with learning disabilities participate in school by creating digital textbooks with pop-up graphics, text to speech, flexible fonts, and other customizable features to fit individual needs ..."

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