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  Kim Cofino

  

  Drawing Is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn, According to New Research

  Inc Magazine - Jessica Stillman

  You are probably not using the most effective, research-backed study technique. When was the last time you sat down with a pencil and paper and drew something? For many of us the answer is high school art class or that Paint and Sip evening you went to a while back. Aside from professionals and a …

• When games succeed at teaching broader skills that go beyond content-level knowledge, they often do so because they marry the best parts of entertainment gameplay—or the feedback loops and successive … More

  

  Kim Cofino

  

  Playing Games Can Build 21st-Century Skills. Research Explains How.

  edsurge.com - Stephen Noonoo

  As anyone who’s ever spent hours hunched over Candy Crush can attest, there’s something special about games. Sure they’re fun, but they can also be …

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  Kim Cofino

  

  Am I The Only Teacher Who Didn’t Know About “BookTubers”?

  edublogs.org

  The New York Times today has a very lengthy article headlined Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers. It’s about an apparently huge …

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  Jeff Utecht

  

  OER reaches ‘inflection point,’ and states are leading the charge - EdScoop

  edscoop.com - Emily Tate

  After years of dabbling with open educational resources (OER), educators have finally begun to embrace the concept as a legitimate alternative to …

• The use of photographs provides a novel way to engage in analyzing text. Students can verbally describe their observations, ideas, and analysis in addition to listening to the ideas of their classmate … More

  

  Kim Cofino

  

  Literacy Through Photography for English Language Learners

  edutopia.org - Tabitha Dell’Angelo

  5 Photo-Based Strategies For students with limited English proficiency, this is particularly important because literacy skills can be advanced and …

• Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are bet … More

  

  Kim Cofino

  

  Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling

  MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv

  Vonnegut mapped out several arcs in his lecture. These include the simple arc encapsulating “man falls into hole, man gets out of hole” and the more …