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Indoor or wet breaks and lunchtimes | Creative STAR Learning
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Indoor or wet breaks and lunchtimes | Creative STAR Learning

- by Ludivina Leveto

Often it is not the major suggestions that cause controversy but compact selections or steps that are observed to Definitely Subject to a team of persons, be they little ones, mothers and fathers, employees or the wider institution. And soaked breaks are a person of all those – to have or to have not?

As a head instructor, the only time I have at any time experienced a complaint produced to my line manager was about allowing little ones engage in out in the rain. A dad or mum, in anger and aggravation, questioned the faculty coverage about soaked breaks. Her child was in Main 1.

A lesson using place on a rainy winter’s day

I happened to have been absent from university on the day this event took spot. On the other hand the depute head trainer was a practical human being and the weather could not have been

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Using Open-Ended Questions in Student-Centered Learning

- by Ludivina Leveto

“How was your weekend?”

The instructor writes the morning’s crafting prompt on the board, hoping to listen to all about the students’ experiences and adventures over the final two times. Regrettably, the only responses she gets are “Fine” and “Okay.”

What went completely wrong?

Student Centered Learning

The variation amongst making use of closed-ended inquiries and open up-ended issues in the classroom can be like evening and working day. Shut-ended queries motivate terse, frequently solitary-phrase responses (“yes” or “no,” for case in point). On the other hand, open up-ended issues are made to advertise entire, significant solutions that stem from the students’ own awareness, views, inner thoughts, and experiences. In addition, when teachers use open-finished questioning procedures, they stimulate objectivity, as these types of queries are considerably less leading in nature.

Why are Open up-Finished Issues Important?

Benjamin Bloom and some others classified various objectives for educational settings. These groups are: Know-how,

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Performance Focus For Deeper Learning Design
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Performance Focus For Deeper Learning

- by Ludivina Leveto

Leveraging General performance Concentration For Further Learning

In the Major eLearning Manifesto, we (the other three authors and I) stipulated that the eLearning market needs a concentrate on effectiveness. [1] What does that signify, and what does it suggest for further learning design and style? Here’s what a functionality aim suggests, in exercise.

To start, I’ll propose that our goals need to not be discovering! That could look counter-intuitive for a further mastering viewpoint, but (by and huge) what companies require is not being aware of new issues, but the capability to do new things. We ought to be wanting at what the gaps in our capabilities to perform are and what the proper habits should really be, and then implementing initiatives to tackle these gaps. That might be points other than establishing expertise, but when techniques is the need to have, which is our role. To be apparent,

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Snow Fun: 15+ Ideas | Creative STAR Learning
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Snow Fun: 15+ Ideas | Creative STAR Learning

- by Ludivina Leveto

Snow is precious. Be prepared in advance to make the most of the soft fluffy stuff as soon as it arrives. The post draws together various posts and ideas I’ve blogged about over the years to save you searching.

Just to wet your appetite for snow, here are some of my favourite snowy day activities:

1. A Headless Snowman

Make a snowman without a head. Then take turns to stand behind the snowman as if your head belongs to the snowman.  Have a range of props such as wigs, hats, scarves, sunglasses to wear.  Take photos of each other doing different poses.

2. Roll it up

Make the biggest snowball possible whilst creating a maze or interesting pattern of grass to follow afterwards. Does the size of the snowball relate to the length of the path created?

3. Guess the object

Look at different things covered with snow and guess

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Metasaga | Creative STAR Learning
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Metasaga | Creative STAR Learning

- by Ludivina Leveto

Metasaga is a wonderful framework for interpreting and revisiting a acquainted community surroundings for kids and grownups of all ages. It was created by Kate Coutts in the early Noughties. In essence the tactic aims to promote discussion and make one-way links and understanding between people’s lives and the area that they dwell. It works by using true objects and functions as a metaphor for private discovery. It functions properly in designed or pure environments. It will work finest in a area area that young children and young people can easily return to.

Kate developed the concept on a leadership training course, so in the video clip under, the inquiries relate far more to troubles all-around leadership. Even so it does develop upon the concepts.

The Metasaga blogpost explains the framework in a small extra detail also. The composition of a metasaga is straightforward and it’s worth practising this beforehand

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Best Online Paraphrasing Tools | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Best Online Paraphrasing Tools | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

- by Ludivina Leveto
I am not a big fan of those AI-enabled copywriting and content generation tools that are now mushrooming everywhere online. Several people use them to generate blog posts, articles, essay papers, you name it. This is a blatant form of cheating using robotic means! Period.

Students should definitely not be encouraged to use them and if they do, serious repercussions must be leveled out. Writing is a creative HUMAN endeavor and should remain so. Indeed, several content creators and artists have voiced their concerns over the harm AI technology is doing to creativity and how it nurtures and develops a culture of plagiarism and inauthenticity.

Paraphrasing tools

That being said, AI technology is not utterly evil either. It is how people use it that makes it obnoxious. Indeed, AI technology is revolutionizing human knowledge at all levels and across different disciplines. It is behind amazing scientific breakthroughs in different fields especially in

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