The Importance of PRE-flection

Learning skills is a process largely based on expectation failure -- we do something expecting a certain result, we get an unexpected result, we stop...

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Math Questioning in Primary School Context

Great video shared by Tom Woodward of effective questioning style by a skilled primary school teacher. I think this might be a great resource for...

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George Siemens on Educational Content

This seemed very relevant to thinking about the idea of the Keene State Learning and Teaching Commons as we go forward. Quoted at length from...

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AAC&U Video on Keene’s Integrative Studies Program

This is not new, but I've found that a number people haven't seen it, so I'm posting it here. It is an outline of what...

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Using Scirus and/or Scholar to Search for Scholarly Web Resources

You can use Google Scholar or Elsevier's Scirus to do a quick scan of scholarly, web available literature. While these tools are not as comprehensive...

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A Sample Assessment Plan for Project-Based Learning

This is designed primarily for K-12, but it is not essentially different from what one might use for a college course.  It provides a method...

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Want to use Creative Commons Licensing? Here’s a Short Guide.

The new National Educational Technology Plan is out, and one of the things it singles out as important to educational progress is open licensing. We...

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Do You Have Checklists You Use? Would You Share Them With Us?

Prompted by a recent post by Jon Udell, I've been thinking about checklists over the last few days. Checklists, we are finding out, can be...

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Keene Students Publish In Chemistry Journal

From Colin Abernethy, Chemistry, via Campus News: I am pleased to inform you that the work of Anna P. McLean (Biology ‘11), Elizabeth A. Neuhardt (Chemistry ‘10), and Joel P....

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