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Creativity Resource for Teachers

Creativity Resource for Teachers
Fresh ideas to inspire teachers and students, written by visual arts, language arts, and social studies teachers.View Lesson Plans and Ideas » Decking Out a Statue Early Childhood Visual Arts Monkey God (Hanuman), Artist not known, Southern India View this lesson »

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Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy What are critical thinking and creative thinking? What's Bloom's taxonomy and how is it helpful in project planning? How are the domains of learning reflected in technology-rich projects? Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Within the cognitive domain, he identified six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Teaching Online 3: Online teacher skills Friday 1 October 2010 by Nicky Hockly What makes a good online teacher? Edward Hopper Edward Hopper, an illustrated essay by artist and Deskarati art critic – Alan Mason - 1. Edward Hopper, Self Portrait, (1925-30) aged 43 to 48 Edward Hopper, (1882-1967), was an American painter who earned his living as a commercial artist for most of his adult life. He was a representational artist who produced his own work during his free time. These two aspects, “commercial art” and “representational artist” were sufficient to damn Hopper’s free, non-commercial art in the eyes of the art establishment within the USA and in Europe. How to Write a Research Paper (with Sample Research Papers) Edit Article Choosing Your TopicResearchingMaking an OutlineWriting Your PaperSample Research Papers Edited by Jackie Sinclair, Jack Herrick, Jamie Littlefield, Imperatrix and 75 others When studying at higher levels of school and throughout college, you will likely be asked to prepare research papers. A research paper can be used for exploring and identifying scientific, technical and social science issues.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Return to MERLOT II Home Page Search all MERLOT Select to go to your profile Click to expand login or register menu Select to go to your workspace What To Expect From Education In 2013 Guessing what the future of education holds is equal parts logic and guesswork. The logical part is simpler–take current trends and trace their arc further, doing your best to account for minor aberrations. If the majority of public education in the United States is waist-deep in adopting new academic standards, it doesn’t take Nostradamus to predict they are going to have a strong gravity about them in the education at large.

Online Learning Quiz Great! You’ll need to be able to download course material, get assignments and communicate with other students and your instructor. Fabulous! You’ll need to be able to download course material, get assignments and communicate with other students and your instructor. Contact a college advisor or counselor to help with other options. If you do not have a computer or access to a computer and the internet then online courses will not work for you. 106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos - Year 2010 More info. More info. More Banksy on Street Art Utopia. More info. More 3D on Street Art Utopia. More of this on streetartutopia.com.

Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics Visualize This is a practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData, Visualize This is a practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data. The book is published by Wiley and is available on Amazon and other major online booksellers. gnitive Differences Between Adults & Children Author: Jeff Durham - Updated: 15 September 2012| Comment There’s an old saying that goes “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and, whether you believe that or not, the same principle cannot be applied to humans. In fact, adults can learn just as easily as children but there are several basic differences between what works effectively for adults and what works best for children. Experience Of Life As an adult, you’ll have had far more experience of life in general than a child and whilst this can help an adult more than a child when it comes to learning, it can also hinder them and a child’s lesser experiences can occasionally prove more beneficial.

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