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Tweeting One's Way to Better Writing. Who knew Twitter could improve students’ writing? That’s one of the things I learned at the Sloan Consortium’s 19. Annual International Conference on Online Learning in Orlando, Florida. This conference specializes in e-learning techniques and technologies and draws more than 2,000 participants each year. Read more: Tweeting One's Way to Better Writing. Published on Wednesday, 18 December 2013 08:00. Written by Jessica Schneble. Read more: Tools for Designers. Let’s ...
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Off to Follow Your Passion? You hear it all the time: To find a job you love, Follow your passion. Sounds like a plan. Well, maybe not. If you believe that we all have a pre-existing passion, and that matching this to a job will lead to instant workplace bliss, then reality will always pale in comparison, writes Cal Newport, an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University, in a piece. For CNN.com based on his book. Another problem with the call to Follow your passion: Very few of us c...
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High School: A Million Times Better than Middle School! The first day of school last fall, I really didn’t think I was going to make it through the door. I still remember the big letters across the scaffolding, spelling out the dreaded words. They may as well have been spelling out my death warrant. Terrified, I tried to calm my panicked and racing mind, which was racked with questions:. What if I can’t handle this? Maybe I shouldn’t have taken as many advanced courses. What if I don’t do well? Is a fict...
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WCATY's Rebecca Vonesh on Expertise and Learning Goals. As WCATY students worked through Week 2 of their fall online Academy classes, WCATY Co-Director Rebecca Vonesh sat down with. To discuss two of the concepts at the heart of the courses they are taking:. WCATY online classes place a lot of emphasis on helping students develop expertise. What exactly does that mean and why is it important? And how is a student’s level of expertise measured in an online Academy class? A WCATY Summer: By the Numbers.
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Curious Minds - High School: A Million Times Better than Middle School!
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High School: A Million Times Better than Middle School! The first day of school last fall, I really didn’t think I was going to make it through the door. I still remember the big letters across the scaffolding, spelling out the dreaded words. They may as well have been spelling out my death warrant. Terrified, I tried to calm my panicked and racing mind, which was racked with questions:. What if I can’t handle this? Maybe I shouldn’t have taken as many advanced courses. What if I don’t do well? Maya Khan...
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WCATY's Katie Eder to Travel to Colombia as AFS Award Winner. Congratulations to WCATY student Katie Eder, who has been named winner of AFS’ Project Change Vision in Action award! The award recognizes an outstanding commitment to turning ideas for change into real action. Katie won the award as a result of her creation of Kids Tales. I’m delighted the judges liked my project so much, said Katie, a ninth grader at Shorewood High School, in Shorewood, Wisconsin. And I can’t wait to take Kids Tales to C...
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If a child is gifted she will be a model student. Based on my experience as a SENG Model Parent Group Facilitator and the mother of two gifted children, the above statement may be true, but not always. And, in fact, not necessarily all that often. Read more: Not Necessarily Perfect. Published on Thursday, 26 February 2015 13:44. Written by Katherine Peterson. Giftedness More Than a Test Score. Read more: Giftedness More Than a Test Score. Published on Thursday, 15 January 2015 13:44. Yet, many parents ar...
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