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Scott Powers: Academic, non-academic skills go hand in hand
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Academic, non-academic skills go hand in hand. The first reason… non-academic skills are as important as academic skills for educational and professional success. Technical expertise depends on education, training, and experience, and it tends to be domain specific. In other words, the technical expertise required for success in film production (understanding camera systems, lighting, software, etc.) doesn't necessarily translate to other professional fields. Asserts that the evi...
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Scott Powers: Why I love to read
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Monday, September 1, 2014. Why I love to read. September, 2014 - Monday is International Literacy Day. I know, it seems like everyday is International Something-or-Other Day. But this one is different. Worldwide, more than 770 million adults and 120 million youth cannot read or write. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD), 36 million "adult Americans are living with the consequences of low literacy skills.". It's also personal. and fun. and rewarding. A. S kids hea...
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Scott Powers: What writing does
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Thursday, August 7, 2014. There is more. A recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. Showed that writing can also alleviate students' anxiety about mathematics. Anxiety, separate from math skill-level, is associated with student performance. Writing, specifically expressive writing, can help reduce student anxiety. They were right, at least in this study. Pugalee, D. (2004) A comparison of verbal and written descriptions of students' problem-solving processes. Krashen, S. (200...
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Scott Powers: Who gets to be a writer?
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Who gets to be a writer? More than 400,000 people, including 100,000 kids, participated in '30 days and 30 nights of literary abandon' this November. It was National Novel Writing Month. Why would someone do this? A research article recently published in Studies in Continuing Education. Talks about writing for his "constant reader," someone who reviews his work and is always in his mind as he is writing. By Sara Gruen, The Night Circus. By Erin Morgenstern, and Cinder. Septembe...
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Scott Powers: In a galaxy not so far away
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Friday, January 2, 2015. In a galaxy not so far away. Look it up on Wikipedia ( Google entry number one. And you learn that a galaxy is a "massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust, and dark matter." French computer scientist Owen Cornec has applied this concept to browsing the World's most famous Internet encyclopedia. Cornec's WikiGalaxy. More than 4.6 million articles in the English language Wikipedia alone. Professors Michele K...
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Scott Powers: Finding your voice
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Saturday, October 11, 2014. Recording artist Usher Raymond IV. Spent last spring helping aspiring singers reach for success on NBC's reality television singing competition, The Voice. A leading publisher of educational materials, to launch an initiative to elevate the importance and joy of reading for all children. Through its Open a World of Possible. It's about helping children learn to consume, comprehend, process, internalize, and create quality written information. that's what literacy is. I...Schol...
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Scott Powers: About Scott
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Connect with me at scottkpowers.com. Or by email at learn@scottkpowers.com. EdD Curriculum and Instruction, Texas A&M University. MEd Instructional Technology, Texas A&M University. BS Journalism, Texas A&M University. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Daniel Willingham: Science and Education Blog. National Institutes of Health. Why I love to read. September, 2014 - Monday is International Literacy Day. I know, it seems like everyday is International Something-or-Other Day. But this one. Subscribe to this blog.
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Scott Powers: The only thing to fear is fear itself
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Friday, July 25, 2014. The only thing to fear is fear itself. It seems to be socially acceptable to be anxious about math, noted Sian Beilock and Daniel Willingham in a review of research regarding math anxiety. Recently published in American Educator. But how do you do that? And encouraging a growth mindset in students that helps them connect effort to outcome as opposed to believing that math ability is purely innate. Also, Beilock and Willingham note that anxiety and efficacy have an inverse relations...
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