Reactions to my tip on how I use figshare

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https://storify.com/LorenaABarba/reactions-to-my-tip-on-how-i-use-figshare This is awesome advice: Publish your figures under a CC-BY licen...

Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways – we need to stop using unproven, harmful methods

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http://theconversation.com/students-are-not-hard-wired-to-learn-in-different-ways-we-need-to-stop-using-unproven-harmful-methods-63715 Ther...

How an award-winning teacher uses an app and camera phone to reinforce good math skills

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http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2016/09/08/how-an-award-winning-teacher-uses-an-app-and-camera-phone-to-reinforce-good-math-skills/ This ...

It feels as though we learn better via our preferred learning style, but we don’t

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https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/10/05/it-feels-as-though-we-learn-better-via-our-preferred-learning-style-but-we-dont/ Yet another study tha...

How 37 States Are Handling Teacher Shortages

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http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2016/how-37-states-are-handling-teacher-shortages/ Dan Meyer does a nice bit of ed policy work here by surveying va...

Once considered too easy, is teacher certification now too hard?

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http://michiganradio.org/post/once-considered-too-easy-teacher-certification-now-too-hard#stream/0 For years we've had tests for teache...

Lawsuit revives an old debate: Should Florida's struggling readers be forced to repeat third grade?

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http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/lawsuit-revives-an-old-debate-should-floridas-struggling-readers-be-forced/2291243 A nice articl...

Learning styles: what does the research say?

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http://deansforimpact.org/post_Learning_styles_what_does_the_research_say.html Yet another reminder that learning styles don't exist. W...

"Deeper learning" continues to show higher high school graduation rates - The Hechinger Report

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http://hechingerreport.org/deeperlearningstudy/ I don't know exactly what "deeper learning" is, and it sounds like this autho...

Growth mindset doesn’t promise pupils the world

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https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/growth-mindset-doesnt-promise-pupils-world I really like that Carol Dweck is working to...

TRU Math Suite

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http://map.mathshell.org/trumath.php The "Teaching for Robust Understanding" (TRU) framework was designed by a Schoenfeld-led gro...

CU-Boulder fellowship seeks to tackle public issues with research

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http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_29657395/cu-boulder-fellowship-seeks-tackle-public-issues-research It's great to see Ben Kirshner...

Why Education Research Has So Little Impact on Practice: The System Effect

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http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/top_performers/2016/03/why_education_research_has_so_little_impact_on_practice_the_system_effect.html?cmp=SOC...

Schools Need Introverted Teachers, But Avoiding Burnout a Challenge

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http://neatoday.org/2016/02/04/introverted-teacher/ I very much consider myself to be an introvert, but I was mostly okay during routine sc...

How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimals-of-pi-do-we-really-need/ Not very many, it turns out. This is a pretty good ex...