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Correlations among problem-solving and PISA performance in maths, science and reading
Reviewing the last PISA report (2014) about «Are 15-year-olds creative problem-solvers?» available at European Schoolnet Academy (PDF) site, I found this figure: It shows the latent correlation between performance in Mathematics, Reading, Science and Problem-solving. Probably nothing unexpected in the overall data but I’d like to highlight, in my modest opinion, two noticeable correlations: Problem-solving …
Neuroscience findings about learning and the usage of digital technologies
As part of the week 2 module «Your future classroom – towards a realistic vision» of the course Future Classroom Scenarios (#FCSCourse), I found an interesting video where Dr Paul Howard Jones talks about What is the Internet Doing to our Brains? I found the whole video very interesting because Dr. Paul tried to explain scientifically …
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Student works deserve an equivalent Teacher feedback
Today I rescued this picture from old annotations to reinforce, once again, the power of teacher feedback. I titled this short post as «Student works deserve an equivalent Teacher feeback«. A good complementary picture could be another one to insist on giving feedback as soon as possible to be more effective.
21st Century Skills
Roger Blamire, Senior Advisor to European Schoolnet, provides in a 9:01min video a clear introduction to what is commonly referred to as 21st Century Skills. Roger defined in 2014 Skills as expertise or the ability to do something well. Paul Kirschner would define skill as the ability to successfully carry out a procedure, so Paul …
Diana Laurillard views on trends that impact in education
Diana Laurillard is a Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the Institute of Education, University of London. I recently found at the Future Classrooms Lab (EUN) website, a video where she talked about some trending topics in education. I had to read papers during my Master Degree where she was cited very often. It …
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Display your OpenBadges Backpack in Moodle with LTI
Link to OpenBadges Backpack from Moodle with LTI How to use LTI (External Tool Activities) in Moodle These days I’ve been playing around with LTI (Learning Tools Interoperavility) and Moodle. I wanted to test what else could I do with this tool beyond providing a WP blog account to my School. The number Edu Apps built on LTI …
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My virtual attendance to #mtmoot 2014
June is usually a busy month for teachers. Final exams, grades, school reports, meetings with parents are the usual stressing tasks for all of us. So as soon I begin my summer holidays, I start to pay attention to many other forgotten activities and hobbies. One of those activities is to read about what’s going …