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10 Student Engagement Strategies That Empower Learners –

by Terry Heick Agreeing on how to best establish what a learner understands isn’t simple — if for no other reason then understanding itself isn’t

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126 Digital Learning Verbs Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy –

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re interested supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.) Put simply, learning taxonomies help

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A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach and

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21 Smart Games For Game-Based Learning

by TeachThought Staff There is a difference between gamification and game-based learning, and this post focuses on the latter. Essentially, game-based learning means to learn

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10 Video Games To Get Started With Game-Based Learning

by TeachThought Staff In The Difference Between Between Gamification and Game-Based Learning, we learned the difference between the two. “Gamification is first and foremost about

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Shifting Focus From Ideas To The Effects Of Those Ideas

by Terry Heick It’s not the thinking behind an idea that should bother us, but rather the effect of the idea. #edtech. Content-based academic standards.

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Teaching Mindfulness In School At Any Grade Level: 10 Tips

by TeachThought Staff While the scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the Waisman Center aren’t yet ready to

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What Is The Library Of Congress? – TeachThought

What Is The Library Of Congress? by TeachThought Staff The recent dismissal of Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, has brought renewed attention

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Promote Creativity In Learning With These 30 Ideas

The concept of teaching creativity has been around for quite some time. See also What Is Divergent Thinking? Much of the blame for a lack

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12 Articles About Critical Thinking – TeachThought

12 Articles About Critical Thinking In The Classroom by TeachThought Staff Critical thinking remains one of the most discussed—and least clearly defined—ideas in education. It’s