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Marvelously systematic view of brainstorming

Posted by Peter Shaw on 8th March 2013

Hey everyone.  This is Monica. So we’ve been talking about different strategies for group collaboration and cooperative learning… one of which is brainstorming. In my jigsaw reading, one of the sections was about brainstorming. I shared with the class that what I liked most was the idea of  ‘hitchhiking,’ or that when brainstorming no idea […]

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Teaching with your mouth shut

Posted by Peter Shaw on 21st February 2013

Chapter 1 – Teaching with your mouth shut Teaching by telling is not effective in that it does not have lasting results, although it seems to be the most popular understanding of what it means to teach Listen to the students’ discussion always There are different images of what it means to be a good […]

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