Posts Tagged ‘ted conference’

How Can We Learn From Students?

Adora Svitak on TED.com

Tweet In the classroom, there are very distinct roles. A teacher works with a classroom of students to guide their development of knowledge and skills. Students learn from the teacher and the course by completing assignments and projects. When imagining this, we visualize a teacher at the front of the room and students working at Read more »

How the Brain Creates Meaning

Tom Wujec on TED.com

Tweet Visual thinking helps students understand new concepts and retain knowledge, but what’s the brain function behind visual learning? How does visual information help a student’s brain create meaning and knowledge? Recently I watched a speech by Tom Wujec at a TED conference in February 2009 discussing this exact process.1 In the first six minutes, Read more »

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