Exploring Social Bookmarking in Education
Social bookmarking in education makes life easier for us as educators. All we have to do is save our favorite links on the internet and we can access it with ease at a later time. Often we just use the favorites menu on our computer either at work or home. But what if […]
Learning Disabilities and IQ Testing
Intelligence tests measure a variety of mental skills, which are lumped together and called “intelligence”. The result is an IQ score. This number is supposed to be a measurement of a child’s general ability. But this score doesn’t consider factors like learning disabilities.
Learning disabilities and IQ are often not taken into account at […]
Teaching Tenacity & Metacognition through Games
Games and objects ground instruction, and provide the basis for experience and mental representation — comprehension. When we have this, we can spend less time decoding and more time discussing printed text. So by writing about accessible narratives such as games, we were more successful when reading related printed text. We had learned […]
Video Games as Curriculum
As models and simulations for developing scientific habits of mind. This content unit gives an overview of the use of STARLOGO free software for education from MIT. With this software, you can develop the scientific habits of mind to do science with mathematical modeling the easy way! Create models, simulations, and crazy computations […]
