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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

Although researchers suggest flipped classrooms, engaging humor, and online polling, I have found taking a more personal approach to engagement to be successful, specifically the following three guidelines: show your human side, share your professional experiences and wisdom, and admit your mistakes. Lejano et al. Ingram, M., &

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Presidential habits: How a track record of successes (or failures) has shaped their careers

University Business

The past week saw a top 10 research university gain its first female president and a pair of small private schools electing new leadership. She also capitalized on the school’s STEM offerings, investing heavily in the school’s annual research and contributing to an increased number of startups and patents.

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Moving Right Along to Improve Mood and Memory

The Scholarly Teacher

Mark Tarnopolsky, a genetic metabolic neurologist at McMaster University, said that “if there were a drug that could do for human health everything that exercise can, it would likely be the most valuable pharmaceutical ever developed” (Oaklander, 2016, para. You just need to get into the habit of a regular exercise program.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Pearson’s choice to build their learning outcomes effort around a term that comes from the pharmaceutical industry is an historically apt one for the textbook industry. It was in 2013 and it certainly is now. The cynical jokes are much too easy here. Both companies made real efforts to transform themselves. And fill in gaps.

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