Giving Effective Feedback

This is an excellent article on feedback.  The author Alina Tugend  suggests that negative feedback is not always harmful and positive feedback not always helpful. She says that the purpose of feedback is “not to make people feel better, it’s to help them do better.”

This article first appeared in the NYTimes. Thanks to Kim Marshall at the Marshall Memo for bringing it to our attention.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/your-money/how-to-give-effective-feedback-both-positive-and-negative.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Popular History Game Now Playable Free In Browser

Freeciv is a nation-building strategy game in the vein of Civilization and Age of Empires that allows players to plan empires, design their structures, and iterate them endlessly within a dynamic and often punishing world.

http://www.teachthought.com/video-games-2/popular-historical-learning-simulation-now-playable-in-browser-for-free/?utm_source=feedly

STEM and PBL - A Natural and Essential Connection

This article is written by Mike Gorman of the Buck Institute National Faculty and first appeared on the Experts & Newbies blog. Mike argues, “I can’t help but see how these two concepts really do complement one another.  Both STEM and PBL depend on a student need to know and inquiry which allows for higher level learning.”

http://biepbl.blogspot.com/2013/05/stem-and-pbl-natural-and-essential.html?utm_source=feedly

Foreign Students In the U.S.

Edudemic posted this very informative infrographic showing the increase in foreign students studying in the United States, where they are going and what they are studying.

http://edudemic.com/2013/05/foreign-students-studying-in-the-usa/?utm_source=feedly

Combating Plagiarism

In this Edudemic posting Jen Carey offers three worthwhile suggestions for combating  student plagiarism.

http://edudemic.com/2013/05/how-to-combat-student-plagiarism/?utm_source=feedly

Does Arts Education Matter?

In this Education Week posting Peter DeWitt makes a case for the importance of arts education and the importance of not trying to measure the product.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2013/05/does_arts_education_matter.html?utm_source=feedly

Are Your Students Writing For The Concord Review?

http://theconcordreview.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-report-card-commentary-concord.html?utm_source=feedly

Important Research About Grammar Instruction

In this posting from Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day Larry highlights a new study from Science Daily that concludes that the brain detects grammatical errors even when you are unaware.  Researchers believe these findings have implications, especially for how adults are taught a new language.

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2013/05/14/important-research-on-grammar-instruction/?utm_source=feedly