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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Reproducing Research Results
This video, from TedEd, helpfully outlines many of the reasons it can be difficult to…
LaTB Stories #1: Alex W.
My name is Alex Wonnell, aka Wonz. I work in a middle school in Burlington,…
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Tech in the Classroom: Is Virtual Reality Likely to Help...
Educators have long hoped that that technology holds great promise to move the educational system…
The View from the Podium
Every wonder what it’s like to plan a Big Room presentation for Learning and the Brain?…
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Click Here: The Technology of Retrieval Practice in the Classroom
Back in the dark ages, when I was just cutting my teaching teeth, we teachers…