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How to improve your reading skills

There’s a flood of information which grows rapidly and which is even pushed by multi-media, blogging and so on.

Reading is a must-have and a must-select and a must-think-about and a must-to-decide by yourself.

Reading is one thing and finding your own position and to decide what it’s all about and where you have to go is the other thing. If you want to improve your competence of reading, just have a look:

  • Read across the curriculum
  • Use a variety of reading-materials from different sources
  • Stock school and classroom libraries
  • Plan field-trips
  • Organize community service and other activities
  • Improving your knowledge base is essential, so don’t give up and keep your courage and of course your passion to read
  • And don’t forget speed-reading does not help, it even spoils your competence.

— http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/01/04/five-ways-to-help-students-build-prior.html?cmp=eml-enl-tu-news1

 

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How to improve project-based learning

In today’s educational environment, students are expected to collaborate, think critically, and work together to develop innovative projects and answers to complex questions. But the gains in student engagement and achievement are immeasurable.

In general there’s a good support for project-based learning if you take the four suggestions which will follow now as a guideline:

  • Begin at the end
  • Help students to develop questions
  • Help students to think like an expert
  • Help students to present, to publish and to perform

This kind of project-based learning is also a fun-way for teachers and students to facilitate learning and to be self-engaged.

— http://www.teachthought.com/learning/project-based-learning/4-things-project-based-learning-teachers/

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Good questions are better than good answers

Questions are at the heart of learning, but some questions create a narrow lens while others widen the field of inquiry. Varieties of questions include probing, subsidiary, organizing, divergent, sorting, etc.

How can you learn to find good and relevant questions? Questions are at the heart of learning, but some questions create a narrow lens while others widen the field of inquiry. So:

  • Learn How to Ask the Right Questions
  • Know How to Get Answers
  • Learn About Work Created by Other Students
  • Know How to Work with People Around the World
  • Self-Reflect Upon Their Work

If you are interested just have a look:

— https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/17/five-critical-skills-to-empower-students-in-the-digital-age/

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Struggling is learning

Helping students to “learn how to learn” is crucial for understanding and becoming a life-long learner. To discover how aware students are of their thinking at different ages, it is necessary and really helpful to build “cultures of thinking.” The theory behind is that if educators can make thinking more visible, and help students develop routines around thinking, then their thinking about everything will deepen.

One example of this for this is the Harvard Medical School, where …….

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Education and passion

How about learning in the future? There will be new models of learning by which the next generation of children will learn to participate in the world. More and more experts say that passion-projects are the best way to learn.

— http://singularityhub.com/2016/09/15/kurzweil-says-passion-projects-are-the-best-way-to-learn/

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Stop your autopilot

Turn off your inner auto-pilot, do something different and see what happens.

Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It’s the way they think! Liminal thinking is the art of creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now?

You have a choice. You can create the world you want or live in a world created by others. If you are ready to stop making excuses and start making changes, read on.

— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0FjcSeWA4&feature=share

 

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It`s attention what we need

Attention is hugely important.  It is the asset that will determine who creates value and who destroys value in the years ahead. Among other things, it will transform the nature and power of brands. If you want to hear more about it have a look …….

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From the Dragon to the Panda

A very interesting new book unfortunately only written in German. Ist on the issue of leadership, teaching and learning.

Das Buch, um es vorweg gleich zu sagen, besticht durch die breite Erfahrung der Autorin und durch die unspektakuläre Art und Weise der Darstellung relevanter Praxisbereiche, Praxisfragen und Empfehlungen.

Es gibt inzwischen viele Bücher, die sich mit der Frage beschäftigen, worauf man als Westler in China achten sollte, wenn man denn beruflich unterwegs ist. Die meisten der Bücher bewegen sich ……..auf der Ebene von Rat und Tippgeber. Das Buch von Ott-Göbel hingegen spiegelt die eigenen Erfahrungen der Autorin. Aber nicht nur das. Sie lässt ausgewiesene Kenner des kulturellen Kontextes selbst zu Wort kommen, so geschehen durch eine Verhandlungsexpertin, einen Waldorf-Pionier, einen Management-Dozenten, einen Bildungsexperten, einen Psychotherapeuten und einen Manager.

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Peaks of fluid intelligence

Now the truth about intelligence is scientifically proved. The results of this study encourage all people, especially those who still fear not to be intelligent enough.

Intelligence skills peak at different ages. This is the most important result of the latest study on intelligence ……..

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Gesture and words

Spontaneous gestures can help children to learn whether they use spoken language or sign-language. This is an important result of a new report.

It’s really interesting and important that the reported findings make clear that children have an understanding of the notions before they are able to express themselves in speech. Notion means here a gesture plus word-combination.

Children learn this from their parents. This of course, and this is another result, has been found with children who learn sign-language from their parents. Even deaf children who were not able to learn a spoken language learn a sign-language, so to say a homemade gesture-system in order to communicate.

Please read more about it via this link:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140819094005.htm

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