Videos: MacGyver & Transfer Of Learning
© 2007 Charles Williams, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some great MacGyver videos where he demonstrates transfer of learning — he has to remember what he learned in the past and apply that knowledge to entirely new situations in order to save his life. I’m adding these videos to The Best Movie Scenes, Stories, & Quotations About “Transfer Of Learning”:
Videos: The Karate Kid & Transfer Of Learning
As regular readers know, I’ve been trying to find movie scenes demonstrating transfer of learning (see The Best Movie Scenes, Stories, & Quotations About “Transfer Of Learning” – Help Me Find More!). I happened upon a comment in a paper about transfer saying the Karate Kid was a good example, and they sure were right. Pat Morita having the kid do a variety of tasks like waxing a car and paint
Three Good Resources On Metacognition
© 2010 Jon Skilling, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are three new additions to The Best Posts On Metacognition: Metacognition is from The Center For Teaching. Promoting Student Metacognition is a very nice chart of questions students can ask themselves. 50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think is from Teach Thought.
Now Yelp Creates THEIR Own Version Of Google’s Ngram Viewer
Wow, the same day The New York Times announces their own version of Google’s Ngram Viewer (see NY Times Creates Their Own Version Of Google’s Ngram Viewer), the online review site Yelp unveils their own. It’s called Yelp Trends and you can compare how often different words are used in reviews at cities around the world. It’s very easy to use and no registration is required. You can see two example
More Online Learning Simulations
© 2011 Army Medicine, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Thanks to a tweet from Amanda Ballard, I realized that I had forgotten to include a number of economics-related links on The Best Online Learning Simulation Games & Interactives list yesterday. So here are some that I’ve previously posted on other “Best” lists that I’m now adding to that one: It All Adds Up has some useful economics interactives
NY Times Creates Their Own Version Of Google’s Ngram Viewer
Thanks to the extraordinary Katherine Schulten, today I learned that the New York Times has created the Chronicle. It’s their version of the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which charts word use over the years in the books they’ve indexed (see The Best Posts To Help Understand Google’s New “Books Ngram Viewer”). The Times, though, indexes word usage in its own history. The image at the top of this po
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Education Policy
© 2012 Shutter Stutter, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some recent useful posts on educational policy issues: The Teacher Dropout Crisis is from NPR. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About The Importance Of Teacher (& Student) Working Conditions. I’m adding this infographic to the same list: The Dropouts No One’s Talking About: Teachers is from Ed Week, and I’m adding it t
NBC’s “30 Seconds To Know” Seems Like A Good “Explainer” Series
NBC News produces an ongoing series of 30 Seconds To Know videos about current events and issues. They’re videos that last…thirty seconds, with an expert who explains a topic. However, it’s not just a talking head — it includes action shots and graphics, and the narrator doesn’t speak too fast. I’m going to add it to The Best Online “Explainer” Tools For Current Events. Here’s an example of one:
7-23-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Two Excellent World War One Resources From The GuardianThe British newspaper The Guardian has recently produced two excellent resources about World Ward One that I’m adding to The Best Resources For Learning About World War I: A global guide to the first world war – interactive documentary is an impressive multilingual…inte