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How you can Digest Information Better So You’re Able To Become Great at Understanding New Concepts

January 13th, 2012 pmamediagroup

Every person learns differently, some know about this however some individuals have no clue that there are different learning styles. Neil Fleming, an accomplished teacher has identified three different learning styles that is called the VAK model, an acronym for visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Almost everyone has a variety of these styles but visual is easily the most common and kinesthetic isn’t really…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on January 13, 2012 at 3:36pm — No Comments

Cancer Care Warning Kids About Smoking

By Angela Brown

Updated 8 hours ago

Central Plains Cancer Care Services is planning to go into the schools in the Portage la Prairie area to demonstrate to students the hazards of smoking.

Cancer Care has received some new software, known as Smoker Aging Simulation, that shows how skin can age as a result of smoking.

"Even if we can just go in at the noon-hour and…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on January 10, 2012 at 4:07pm — No Comments

Educational Technology Promotes Visual Literacy

Visual literacy is the ability to analyze and derive meaning from information presented in image form. Under this definition, images can be “read” and through the process of “reading” these images, meaning can be derived and subsequently communicated.

One of the seven recommendations made in a report from the Office of Educational Technology (U.S. Department of Education, 2004) for continuing to improve the use of technology in schools is a distinct move toward digital…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on January 10, 2012 at 4:03pm — No Comments

Visual Literacy – Advertisement or Visual Poem?

December 25th, 2011 Author: Sebastian Buchner

If you want to be a good photographer, you have to be visually intelligent and literate. What a writer does with words, juggling and dancing with them, subduing them, making them do things that they ordinarily do not, that you have to do with images.

But what does it mean to be visually literate? It means to be able to read an image; to understand that in a good…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 26, 2011 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Education Reform Paralysis — and How to Fix It

By Valerie Strauss

This was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University and author of a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal.

By Mark Phillips

The world of educational reform is stuck.

Don’t you get…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 21, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Huge Breakthrough in 'Direct to Brain' Learning

By Pat Pilcher

8:18 AM Wednesday Dec 21, 2011

Scientists believe they have found the key to direct-to-brain learning.

Learning complex tasks such as speaking Latin or perfecting the piano have traditionally required…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 20, 2011 at 6:48pm — No Comments

Visual Literacy Exercise

Compiled by Helena Zinkham, June 2004

Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540-4730

Visual literacy, the ability to read and understand pictures, is a basic skill for working with

prints, photographs, drawings, and other pictorial materials. You need to learn to recognize

subject content. You also need to consider the intent of the image creators, the influence of

production techniques, and the…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 19, 2011 at 4:20pm — No Comments

Having a Difficult Experience Studying New Stuff?

Check out The Following Pointers

December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Computing

Students might have already noticed, but everyone possesses a unique learning style. Neil Fleming, an experienced teacher has discovered three…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 18, 2011 at 10:52pm — No Comments

Matrix-Style Instant Learning Could Be One Step Closer

By Ben Coxworth

20:07 December 14, 2011…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 16, 2011 at 2:15pm — No Comments

The Leo’s Cool-Person-in-Residence: John Schaefer

BY CHRISTOPHER TANEY

Media teacher John Schaefer is in “the Lab” at the Leonardo, and he will be through the end of December.

John is dedicated to preparing children to make a contribution to the media world. He teaches school age children a variety of…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 14, 2011 at 3:40pm — No Comments

MIT Camera System Captures Speed of Light

December 13th, 2011…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 13, 2011 at 1:25pm — No Comments

That’s QRazy! QR Codes in the Classroom

www.qrstuff.com

QR codes such as this one certainly aren’t all that new, but they seem to be infiltrating…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 9, 2011 at 9:05am — No Comments

College Gets Grant For Language Program

By ROSS BARKAN

Queens College’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum has received a new grant that they hope will be able to improve the lives of adults still learning the English language.

The grant is funding “CALTA 21,” an initiative that will incorporate visual learning strategies through art, which will help immigrants and adult English language learners gain a better grasp of English. Godwin-Ternbach is one of four institutions receiving the $495,000…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 8, 2011 at 3:32pm — No Comments

Book reviews: Two different takes on photography

By Kimberly Nicoletti

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Photos are like music; they reach beyond borders to speak to any culture or personality.…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on December 2, 2011 at 8:11pm — No Comments

Beyond Visual Literacy

There's been a lot of talk about the demise of the picture book. Parent Tracy Grantsummarized the heated debate in this piece in the Washington Post. Maurice Sendak chimed in to say that the picture book is…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 28, 2011 at 3:42pm — No Comments

100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2011

100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School

If you’re a student, teacher, or administrator at a high school looking into adopting iPads for educational purposes, it’s important to know that the iPad is more than just an easy way to…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 28, 2011 at 11:44am — No Comments

Texting While Driving: Stop It!

Texting while driving even more dangerous than previously thought

By DANIEL MILLER

Last updated at 4:48 PM on 6th October 2011

Texting or emailing while driving is far more dangerous than previously thought and more than doubles a person's reaction times a new study has found.

Researchers from Texas A&M…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 27, 2011 at 7:09pm — No Comments

Visual Literacy Vs. Visual Communication: What’s the Difference?

Visual literacy and visual communication are two things which are often taken to be as one. Though they are closely related yet they have many differences. But before talking about the differences let us see that what actually is meant by Visual Literacy and …

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 27, 2011 at 10:11am — No Comments

Technology-Rich Learning Environment Improves Retention Rates

By Erik West

November 21, 2011

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Technology-rich learning environment improves retention rates over traditional learning environments

A study released on Monday by the Rochester Institute of Technology found using a technology-rich learning environment in many undergraduate engineering-technology…

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Added by Timothy Gangwer on November 22, 2011 at 4:24pm — No Comments