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Gold mines

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A similar effect is seen in the 100 Word Challenge , and in other similar school related blog projects. Children really learn a lot from presenting live on air - you really have to do your homework if you are summarising today's news, or interviewing a local politician. This is exactly what the Quadblogging kids are doing.

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Tested to distraction

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According to her speech, in recent news reports , Nicky Morgan admits she wants to be able more closely to monitor the 'quality of schools' in England. The side effects of over-testing are that children become victims of the scramble to be best in the league tables. So there we have it. so I won't bore you further here.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Learning Myths with Dr. Will Thalheimer

Learning Visions

But first, the news. Learning News Inaugural oath flub. 9% Hit us Hard 47% Hurt a little 41% Not much effect 3% Helped us MYTHS the Business Side Has about Learning Client asked him to develop a course for business side. Training alone produces improvements in on-the-job performance. He should have had a job aid.

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Where is the road map?

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My wife, who is a secondary school teacher of English informs me that each year, in every new year 7 intake, there are children who enter secondary school unable to read and write properly, and there are always a few who are completely illiterate. by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Building Measurement into Our Training-Development Process

Learning Visions

Learning News Microsoft just released Semblio , a new authoring tool Skype 4.0 Hit Us Hard 31% Hurt A Little 33% Not Much Effect 33% Helped Us 3% (Is "it hasnt hurt us yet, but Im nervous" an answer?) Identifying training opportunities (drive performance by improving knowledge/skills). What are the measures of success?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Instructional Objectives -- How Some of them Work

Learning Visions

Brown Bag Learning follows subscription learning approach: Repeats key concepts over time: Spacing Enables you to get reminders and deepen your understanding Enables you to remember over time Learning News Big topic this week -- Neon Elephant Award to Robert Brinkerhoff for developing case success method evaluation of learning and his new book.

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Work arounds

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Photo by Jeshoots on Pexels In my two previous posts here and here I've been writing about how the use of smartphones and other personal devices and technologies in the workplace can have negative effects on concentration, memory, task completion and social interaction. It's not all bad news. Unported License.

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