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A View from the Mid-Atlantic – Blog

The Ballroom Dancer’s Guide to Cognitive Science
How what I’ve learned on the dancefloor has been useful in my classroom.

What ARE schools for?
Humans.

Why DO they say ‘it’s boring’?
SPOILER: It’s NOT just puberty. It’s FAR more profound than that.

Why did I buy into tech?
… honestly, I didn’t think about it enough, and now I do.

What are we doing?
Three ideas that have guided my teaching over the last 37 years.

Metacognition – thinking about thinking… twice?

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