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Teaching vs Testing

Jigsaw Interactive

Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, standardized testing became more critical for American students than ever. These negatives included teachers being forced by school districts to teach to the test to improve their overall scores.

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ADVENTURES IN TEACHING: Getting Hooked as a Live, Online Trainer

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

  I’ve been in the training industry for more than 20 years, and at this point I am making most of my income by teaching online. When I have to go onsite to teach, I feel very put-upon: “You mean I have to get up before dawn? But now I most often teach from the comfort of my home office.  It was the fall of 2001

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The Roadmap From ‘Digital Immigrants’ to ‘Digital Natives’

Administrate

Nearly 15 years ago, educational thought-leader Marc Prensky wrote, in a piece on ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants‘: “Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”

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SweetRush Named Top Content Provider for Experiential Learning

SweetRush

Loyal client-partners wax enthusiastic about SweetRush’s agency-level creative design, focus on research and development, and ability to create award-winning immersive solutions that teach soft skills, customer service, safety and violence de-escalation, complex technical training, and many other unique use cases.

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Getting Into the Flow: How Casual Games Increase Learning Engagement

Axonify

How do you teach them new information about products, safety or company policy? vigilance and stress) (Hamann, 2001; Cahill & McGaugh, 1998). “Actively disengaged” is one of my favorite phrases. I interpret it to mean that a person actually has to work to be disengaged; they have to try to be disengaged. Csikszentmihalyi, M.

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Flipped learning for talent development: Lessons from the college classroom

CLO Magazine

I have used teaching innovations that I discovered in my 20-plus years as a college instructor that have helped make me stronger as a learning and development professional. Teaching is just talking, right? I began adjunct teaching at the University of Louisville in the fall of 2020. Until I almost fell asleep during a lecture.

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The Persistence of Memory

Learningtogo

Where were you on 9/11/2001? I was teaching a virtual class early in the morning from my home in Rio Verde, Arizona. I kept teaching until I had covered all the content, because I knew my client was sitting in and I knew what he expected. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory. Suddenly, my students started disappearing.

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