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  • Of course, it’s not really the boredom itself that’s important; it’s what we do with it. When you reach your breaking point, boredom teaches you to respond constructively, to make something happen for yourself. But unless we are faced with a steady diet of stultifying boredom, we never learn how.

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    Opinion | Let Children Get Bored Again (Published 2019)

    Opinion | Let Children Get Bored Again (Published 2019)

    Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. “I’m bored.” It’s a puny little phrase, yet it has the power to fill parents with a cascade of dread, annoyance and guilt. If someone around here is bored, someone else must have …

  • Good problems or ideas can come from your students, parents, or community members. Instead of lectures and book learning, teachers can think through the steps required to solve a problem and use those steps as project-learning activities. Instead of planning a massive project, the learning process can be made more manageable by chunking the project into smaller parts, with frequent checkpoints built into the timeline. Instead of a traditional summative exam, authentic assessments can be developed by communicating with professionals in the field regarding what a presentation would look like related to a particular project. https://www.schoology.com/blog/project-based-learning-pbl-benefits-examples-and-resources

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  • 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 challenges that keep us glued to Candy Crush—with established learning theories, such as constructivism (learning by doing and reflection) or flow (learning by being perfectly immersed and focused on an activity).

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

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

    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 …

  • As a mother of three kids, Steinberg recommends parents develop their own policies around sharing photos, videos and other life updates about their children on sites like Facebook. For some, the best method might be simply not posting at all. For others, it could be a matter of giving a child the right to say no before a post is published.

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    'Sharenting': Can Parents Post Too Much About Their Kids Online?

    'Sharenting': Can Parents Post Too Much About Their Kids Online?

    'Sharenting': Can Parents Post Too Much About Their Kids Online? | Here & Now 2019-01-28 11:17:10 Jeremy Hobson For many of us, posting on social media …

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