Student reflection can be THE thing to really change the way we understand student learning. As we empower students to share their ideas about how and what they have taken away from different learning ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

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A new study, which may have implications for approaches to education, finds that brain mechanisms engaged when people allow their minds to rest and reflect on things they've learned before may boost ...

Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2012), pp. 202-216 (15 pages) Abstract We propose a practice-based focus for professional learning communities in ...

I have the Self-Directed Learning course to thank for many accomplishments…SDL allowed me to think about my passions in an academic setting. Without this course I would not have had the tools to ...

This week’s question is: How can we incorporate reflection in the classroom? I always feel so guilty when my students are quietly reflecting. As if the mere act of having students think to themselves ...