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How to Plan Instruction Using the Video Game Model. Imagine you are placed in the following scenarios: You are dropped off at the top of a ski resort's steepest run when you've only had experience on the beginner slopes. You have to spend your day on the bunny hill when you're an expert skier. You play a game of darts with the target two feet away. You play a game of darts with the target 200 feet away. In each of these extremes, you would feel either frustrated or bored, depending on your level of achievable challenge. Challenge is a powerful motivator when students take on tasks they find meaningful and, through their efforts and perseverance, succeed.

Achievable Challenge Requires Individualization As I wrote in my previous blog, A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool blog and the accompanying video, the most popular computer games take players through increasingly challenging levels as they became more and more skillful. The Role of Scaffolding Demonstrating Incremental Progress.

Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts. The Daily Beast. Google. Juices. The Dr. Oz Show. Autism. Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted, repetitive or stereotyped behavior. The diagnostic criteria require that symptoms become apparent before a child is three years old.[2] Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood.[3] It is one of three recognized disorders in the autism spectrum (ASDs), the other two being Asperger syndrome, which lacks delays in cognitive development and language, and pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified (commonly abbreviated as PDD-NOS), which is diagnosed when the full set of criteria for autism or Asperger syndrome are not met.[4] Characteristics Social development There are many anecdotal reports, but few systematic studies, of aggression and violence in individuals with ASD.

Communication Repetitive behavior Causes. Final product (for now) of my iHelp jobs chart. | Teaching. Decoración con libros. Antes Después Sin duda este proyecto diy ha sido de mis favoritos hasta ahora, fue fácil, divertido y me encanta como quedó. Fue una renovación exitosa. La idea surgió de Ready Made y de Blue Cricket Design, echa un vistazo a estas paginas, tienen artículos muy interesantes. Dicho esto, comencemos con el tutorial. Material: 5 Cuadros viejos o bastidores de madera (los míos eran de 30 x 12 cm pero el tamaño puede variar conforme tus necesidades y/o espacio)Un libro que ya no sirva, también pueden utilizar partituras o fotocopiasUn marcador negroPintura Vinílica de color negro, de preferencia en aerosol.TijerasPegamento blancoUn pincelUn recipiente de plástico Instrucciones: 1. 2. 3. 4.

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