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• Top management blog posts of 2009

  
  RapidBI-Mgt, Leadership & Business Development Articles — Authority: 123
  The last 12 months has been a major shift for the team at RapidBI. As a way of looking back here are the most read blog entries in the last 12 months.What was Hot….?Leadership models Learning Styles – Honey & Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ)PESTLE analysis for schools and educationAnsoff matrix – ...
  3 days ago

• More DW on LS

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 421
  Teach Effectively pal Dan Willingham has another treatment of the learning-styles myth at the Washington Post. In a guest entry for Valerie Strauss’ “The Answer Sheet,” Professor Willingham mentions the recent scientific review of research that debunked the myth (yet again) and provides responses to some of the ...
  1 week ago

• Singapore Math in AFT magazine

  
  JD2718 — Authority: 477
  The American Educator (current issue, Winter 2010) has an article, not on the texts that some home schoolers and traditionalists use or support here, but  on teacher training and professional development in Singapore (Beyond Singapore’s Math Textbooks) . Also, to rile some bloggers, E. D. Hirsch addresses the ...
  1 week ago

• Willingham: No evidence exists for learning style theories

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 523
  Daniel Willingham offers a very light response to blog criticisms of his attack on learning styles. "One can never prove a negative," he writes. "Learning styles might exist. So might the Loch Ness monster and the Yeti." Of course this is not true. You can prove negatives: no number less than zero is greater than ...
  1 week ago

• Teachers aware of their own Learning Styles

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 523
  We should not use the lack of evidence as a reason to believe that learning styles dont exist. So argues Matthias Melcher in this post, citing the Critical Thinking video mentioned elsewhere in todays newsletter. I would hasten to add that what has been lacking is a very specific form of evidence: a demonstrated ...
  1 week ago

• Learning Styles Theory BOGUS?

  
  Pat'sBlog — Authority: 121
  Hat tip to Steve Phelps who put me on to this article... Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students . Some clips from the article: "There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public ...
  1 week ago

• Learning Styles Debunked

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  Teachers of the world, unite!  You have nothing to lose but the chains of pseudoscience.
  2 weeks ago

• the honest scoop – 12-28-09

  
  honestbaby — Authority: 133
  Today’s top news headlines for parents According to the former head of AOL, “it all comes back to education” and he is looking to be a leading innovator in the way kids learn . Tracing the roots of children adopted from China proves to be an almost impossible task for many curious families. Recent DNA ...
  2 weeks ago

• Train the trainer course – what to look for?

  
  RapidBI-Mgt, Leadership & Business Development Articles — Authority: 123
  Need a Train the trainer course? Google shows over 4 million results - so how do you choose? This article looks at some of the practical things to look for in selection CIPD, CTP, ELF
  2 weeks ago

• Studies Find There’s No Such Thing as Learning Styles – As Teachers, Should We Care?

  
  tweenteacher.com — Authority: 412
  According to Psychcentral.com , “Learning Styles are being re-evaluated” and negated. This theory, according to a recently published journal article claims that there is really no research out there to prove that students learn differently from one another. Shrug. Cue eye roll.(...) Read the rest of Studies ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scientists: No evidence for learning styles

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 591
  No evidence supports the idea that children learn more if teachers teach to their “learning styles,” concludes a study by a team of cognitive scientists published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest . Education Week summarizes: Some children, for instance, may be visual learners, while others best ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study: No Adequate Evidence to Support “Learning Styles”

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  The four most beautiful words in the English language are “I told you so.”   Dan Willingham is not the kind of guy to say such things out loud, but he could.  He’s taken some grief for saying there’s nothing in cognitive science to support the idea that kids have different ”learning styles.”   Nearly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Learning Styles Re-evaluated

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 584
  A long-standing educational philosophy is under attack as a new research report downplays the importance of different learning styles. Study authors believe prior investigations have failed to use credible research designs resulting in low scientific validity. For decades, educators have harped on the necessity of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Technology Trends for 2010

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 135
  A few days ago, one of the folks I follow on Plurk posted this entry:To follow the link click on the image or visit http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/10/5-k12-technology-trends-for-2010.aspxInteresting in looking at these tech trends for the coming year, they include:eBooks Will Continue to ProliferateNetbook ...
  2 weeks ago

• Myth 35: There are different “learning styles”.

  
  Mommy Myth Buster — Authority: 99
  We’ve all grown up being told that we learn better in different ways: some by doing, some by seeing, some by hearing…  This notion supported by the very real feeling that we do, in fact, absorb information better in some learning environments than in others.  Well, the Association for Psychological Science now ...
  2 weeks ago

• Learning Styles and Manuals

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 523
  Yes, learning styles exist, and Mike Caulfield makes good sense reframing how we should think about them. "Rather than argue about whether we should tailor specific instruction to learning style, presumably so students can better regurgitate material into blue books, why not create environments that function more like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Learning styles gets academic attention

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 421
  Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education under the headline “Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students,” David Glenn describes the hook of a forth-coming paper the examines the popular, but unsupported, notion that instruction must be differentiated according to personal characteristics ...
  2 weeks ago

• Student Conversation Starter

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 450
  Todays episode of CNN Student News has a short segment in which there is a discussion about the differences in the ways in which male and female students learn. The segment talks about the idea of all male or all female middle schools. This segment could be a good prompt for getting students to reflect and discuss ...
  3 weeks ago

• Social media and activism: I wrote an essay… honest!

  
  johninnit — Authority: 99
  I’m not too proud of having been a lousy student. I don’t think I ever got an assignment in on time, and really found it a struggle to get much information out of libraries or lectures and into my head. Of course, since leaving uni for the world of work, I’ve found a big sop [...]
  4 weeks ago

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