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Active Learning: Cornell Notes
Most students write simple linear notes. But there is a way to improve the quality of note-taking that makes it more active, inquiring and revision-friendly, without radically changing how you take notes. It's called the Cornell Method...
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How I Would Learn Machine Learning (If I Had To Start Over)
If I had to learn machine learning from scratch, here’s how I’d do it.
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How I Read and Organize Academic (Machine Learning) Papers
How I Read and Organize Academic (Machine Learning) Papers
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The Clubhouse: Characters
The Clubhouse: Characters discusses the characters in a fictional story and explains both main and minor characters.
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High Five Facts - Ancient Greek Schools
This video explores five fun facts about ancient Greek schools.
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Now and Then
University of Oxford historian Sir John Elliott describes why the search for historical objectivity implies that it is important for all historians to have one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
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Recovering Buried Treasure
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL), describes how we would do well to resuscitate some ideas from the past that were inappropriately discarded.
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Denaturing the Canonical
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL), urges us to question our currently canonical interpretations of moral and political issues.
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Scientific Investigations Resulting in New Ideas
Scientific Investigations Resulting in New Ideas concludes that scientific investigations may result in new ideas of study.
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Cause and Effect Text Structure
Cause and Effect Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the cause and effect structure of informational text.
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Description Text Structure
Description Text Structure identifies the common characteristics of the description structure of informational text.
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MAC OS: Mac Safari Tips & Tricks
Learner will now understand how to launch Apples native browser as well as how to use it competently
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The True Meaning of a Word
The student will learn the difference between denotative and connotative meanings by exploring a variety of examples of both, in and out of sentences.
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I Recall: Part 2
“I Recall: Part 2” reviews characters, setting, and events and asks questions about these story elements after reading the story “The Clubhouse.”
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Let's Learn Blending R Controlled: AR, OR
This video teaches how to blend r-controlled (AR, OR) sounds. Practicing blending sounds is an important step in learning to read.
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Applied Philosophy
Quantum physicist Artur Ekert describes how his formative work in quantum cryptography was motivated by a desire to concretely probe philosophical ideas first formulated by Albert Einstein and later refined by John Bell.
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Forbidden Fruit
Theoretical physicist Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago, describes how a combination of an air-conditioned public library and a discouraging librarian contributed to making him the scientist he is today.
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Peer Review
Princeton historian of science Michael Gordin reflects upon the internal mechanisms behind the publication of Immanuel Velikovsky’s notorious book Worlds In Collision in 1950, explaining how peer review was very different then than it is...
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Bill Bass - Being Literate in a Digital Age
Bill Bass is an award winning educator and former English teacher who now serves as Innovation Coordinator for Instructional Technology, Information, Library Media and Federal Programs in the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO. As...
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Laurie Guyon - Teachers Make a Difference - Mrs. McShara
Laurie Guyon is an Integration Specialist for Schuylerville Central Schools in New York. She is a Common Sense Educator, Google Educator, Apple Teacher, Buncee Ambassador, Seesaw Ambassador, Nearpod Educator and PioNear, Flipgrid...
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Melissa Henning - Using the Four Domains to Help ENL Students Learn
Melissa Henning is the Educational Content Manager for Source for Learning, the non-profit parent company of TeachersFirst. She has over 16 years of experience in education. Melissa is a frequent presenter at national and regional...
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From Volunteer to Teacher: The Influence of Dr. Suzanne Perry
Gwynn Moore has over 29 years in education, She has mainly taught 1st-5th grades, with teaching summer school for grades 6-12. In this video, Gwynn highlights the impactful role Dr. Suzanne Perry played in guiding Gwynn from a dedicated...
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KWL Charts
This video is about “KWL Charts”and explores how to develop questions about a nonfiction text.
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Informational: Problem/Solution
“Informational: Problem/Solution” video lesson explores informational texts, focusing on the problem and solution structure and explaining how to identify problems and solutions in texts.