What do top students do differently? | Douglas Barton | TEDxYouth@Tallinn. Top research stories from Stanford GSE this year. Scholars at Stanford Graduate School of Education cast a wide net when studying the most effective ways to teach and learn. Below are the most viewed news stories about research from the Stanford GSE in 2015, based on Google analytics. The list, arranged chronologically, includes articles on delaying entry into kindergarten, a new way to learn negative numbers, the promise of MOOCs and improving critical thinking in science. If you didn't get a chance to read them the first time around, here's another look: Research shows the best ways to learn math Professor Jo Boaler says students learn math best when they work on problems they enjoy, rather than exercises and drills they fear.
School recess benefits student well-being, study finds Well-organized recess programs engage students in meaningful play and prepare them to learn once back in the classroom finds research from the John W. Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in computer science class. New Study: Engage Kids With 7x the Effect. In education literature, "engagement" is a linchpin word, routinely cited as essential. Yet many experts offhandedly provide vague definitions of the term, or skip defining it altogether. So what exactly is engagement? It depends on whom you ask. In a survey of education majors, Shari Steadman and I found that preservice teachers often confuse compliance with engagement -- essentially flattening the meaning of the term. By adding the word "engaged," we mean to distinguish between the skilled by rote and unsophisticated kind of academic literacy that many "successful" students master, and the more analytic, critical, and discipline specific ways of making meaning emblematic of engaged learners.
Adam Fletcher’s definition is succinct: "Students are engaged when they are attracted to their work, persist despite challenges and obstacles, and take visible delight in accomplishing their work. " The origins of the term hail back to its mid-17th century association with fencers. Science and technology news. Discover Magazine: The latest in science and technology news, blogs and articles. Science/AAAS | News - Up to the minute news and features from Science. Science News for Students. ScienceDaily: News, Videos & Articles in Science, Health, Technology & Environment.
Science News. Grist | Environmental News, Commentary, Advice. The Optimist Daily. Reducing the risk of dementia has just been added to the laundry list of reasons to spend more time outside, in the sun. Researchers from University of Exeter Medical School in the United Kingdom have linked the amount of vitamin D people get to dementia that sets in later in life. In the largest study of it’s kind scientists proved that a moderate vitamin D deficiency was linked to a 53% increased likelihood in developing dementia, and those with severe vitamin D deficiencies had a whopping 125% increase in the likelihood of developing dementia.
So go outside and spend time in the sun! University of Exeter School of Medicine.