Author: Pedro
Schooling Around the World (Part 7)
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
India has 1.4 billion people. Of that total 250 million attend rural and urban schools about the same enrollment as China (2021). Consider that the U.S. schooled around 50 million students in the same year. India’s system of public and private schooling is governed…
10 ways to deal with stakeholders’ beliefs in learning
Originally posted on 3-Star learning experiences:
Mirjam Neelen & Paul A. Kirschner Before we dive in here, we need to give some credit to the person who inspired our approach and the style of this blog: Japke-D Bouma (Twitter handle: @japked). She’s a Dutch journalist who writes a regular column in NRC (a Dutch newspaper)…
New – depressing – research on the Impostor Phenomenon
I’ve written before about the imposter syndrome, the idea that a person can have any success is due to external circumstances or just luck and chance and people will find out soon. New research shows that even under real-life conditions the phenomenon can appear regardless of age, gender, and intelligence. In short: The Impostor Phenomenon… Read More New – depressing – research on the Impostor Phenomenon
Parental text messaging
Originally posted on Best Evidence in Brief Index:
By Ruoyu Lian, Johns Hopkins University The use of parental text messaging to positively influence children’s educational behaviors has gained popularity. A recent study conducted by Catherine and colleagues hypothesized that a text message intervention using the MORE@Home app would be beneficial to enhancing parents’ engagement, and…
Funny on Sunday: just another day in stunt city
Do watch until the end… 世界観🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/uvzPssXrJN — ヒロクライム (@tannokasa3) June 10, 2022
How come people don’t see the world your way?
Maybe you have wondered before why people don’t see the world the way you do? Well, scientists have found a possible explanation. The answer could lie in a region of the brain he calls the ‘gestalt cortex,’ which helps people make sense of information that is ambiguous or incomplete — and dismiss alternative interpretations. From… Read More How come people don’t see the world your way?
Sale of Twitter Shows That Ed Tech Companies Should Be Accountable To Schools (T.Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia)
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
T. Philip Nichols is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Baylor University. Antero Garcia is associate professor of education at Stanford University. The original article appeared in Ed Source, May 8, 2022. The recent news that billionaire Elon Musk plans to purchase…
Does storytelling matter for preschoolers? (Best Evidence in Brief)
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief and this time I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter written up by Sooyeon Byun: A research team in New York University evaluated a classroom-based oral storytelling program called Reading Success Using Co-Constructive Elaborative Storytelling Strategies (R-SUCCESS). R-SUCCESS is composed of three phases: pre-telling, which builds key content… Read More Does storytelling matter for preschoolers? (Best Evidence in Brief)
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