student learning

Behold the Twinkie!

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BCC Nursing Instructor Mary A. has challenged her Nutrition students to make a prediction: what will an unwrapped, unrefrigerated twinkie look like at the end of the semester? What’s YOUR […]

Evaluation of the 2010 Summer Institute

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Thank you, everyone who attended “Igniting Learning: Brain-Based Strategies for Student Success” last week. The evaluation summary is below, with your comments: SI2010eval

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Jonah Lehrer’s blog on emerging cognitive research is just amazing. So much of this has to do with learning, our students, ourselves, and human behavior: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/

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We know that teens make poor decisions, can be impulsive, take risks, and so on. The presentation below explains why. Emerging science shows us that the brain continues development through […]

Technology vs. Knowledge

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The link below is to an excellent short essay by Chris Dede of the Harvard School of Ed. In the piece, he describes the meeting of classical approaches to education […]

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In the well-written article below, the author makes clear why we need to take care in using Facebook for academic purposes (and I do not recommend it). The upshot is […]

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Here are some tips from Ferris State University (Source: http://www.ferris.edu/fctl/Docs/DealingwithDisruptiveStudents.pdf) Ways of Dealing with Disruptive Students Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance (V. Ruggerio)—most of the […]