To make a virtual learning space bloom, writes veteran online educator Caitlin Krause, you need to look beyond the tech and focus on the “mutual care and enthusiasm for the community connection.” – Edutopia
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Get Kids Hooked on The Right Drugs
Introduction Learning should feel good, or better stated, gratifying. But it should also feel hard. Drawing on Dr. Becky Kennedy’s work on productive struggle, this session explores what happens chemically in the brain when students struggle, succeed, and enjoy their work: dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. The real question is how we help students moveContinue reading “Get Kids Hooked on The Right Drugs”
Your Future Success Revealed with Marshmallows?
“…a seemingly simple experiment devised by Walter Mischel to test will power: put a kid in a room with a marshmallow, and tell her if she can resist eating it for 15 minutes, she can have 2 marshmallows. It turns out the kids who could wait were much more likely to be successful as adults.Continue reading “Your Future Success Revealed with Marshmallows?”
Use Technology to Document Danielson
“I believe that one of the reasons my framework has become so widely accepted is that it gives voice to what all educators know, that teaching is very complex work, it’s a thinking person’s job and you cannot follow a cookbook.” – Charlotte Danielson “Doctors work as interns and residents… attorneys work as clerks forContinue reading “Use Technology to Document Danielson”
Northwest Indian College – CMPS 100 Computer Basics
I have created a web page with resources the CMPS 100 Computer Basics Class. Class Schedule and Topics
