TGIF: On FridayLive! Helping students learn - an 8th Principle????

TGIF: on FridayLive! You can also view the newsletter here. Thirty-fifth issue, Volume EightTLT Group TGIF 4.28.15 From TLT Group World Headquarters This week on FridayLive! we dive head long into metacognition as we explore ways to Help students make more thoughtful choices about how to study and learn This will be with the help of Doug Eder and Saundra McGuire. You will want to join us on Friday. More information here. Be sure to get your copy of Brain Rules in preparation for our book discussion next week Support the TLT Group by becoming a member or donating to the TLT Group you will help us continue this work. DONATE, JOIN US More from the TLT-SWG Blog http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/ Members Exchange PLANNING MEETING: 3rd Spring 2015 Discussion - COGNITIVE SCIENCE Brain Rules & TLTG Institutional Membership Discussion Date: April 29, 2015 Time: 3:00 PM ET Presenters: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, TLT Group and others Register Here 3:00 - 3:30 PM ET In this session we will talk together about how best to design the third book discussion in our spring series. This link will take you to more information about the event and how to register, COGNITIVE SCIENCE Selection #3 comes from our cognitive science survey: Medina, John (2014) Brain Rules, (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Seattle, WA: Pear Press Explore the author’s website and download the 12 Brain Rules. Listen to a 3 minute YouTube introduction from John Medina. NOTE: You can support The TLT Group indirectly by purchasing books from Amazon via links in our recommended reading list or shop using this AmazonSmile link. Amazon will then make a donation to the TLT Group. Learn more about the entire series here. 3:30 - 4:00 PM ET Join the discussion and help the TLT Group make Institutional Subscription more appealing. Upcoming Member Events April 29, 2015 PLANNING MEETING: 3rd Spring 2015 “Book” Discussion - COGNITIVE SCIENCE Brain Rules & TLTG Institutional Membership Discussion May 6, 2015 Keeping Up - - Semi-Stone Soup Share Something New, Useful May 13, 2015 Evernote Learning Community May 20, 2015 Twitter Part 3 FridayLive! Free to all! Help students make more thoughtful choices about how to study and learn (face-to-face and online): Reasons, strategies, and resources Date: May 1, 2015 Time: 2:00 PM ET Presenters: Steve Gilbert & Beth Dailey, TLT Group, Douglas Eder, Emeritus, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Saundra McGuire - Ret.) Assistant Vice Chancellor & Professor of Chemistry Director Emerita, Center for Academic Success Louisiana State University Register Here Why should students understand more about their own options for studying and learning? How can they take more responsibility for their own learning? How can faculty enable students to make more effective choices about their own learning? McGuire and Eder will describe how undergraduate students can improve their own learning rapidly and significantly in most courses (both face-to-face and online) by using strategies such as: A. Teaching students to apply Bloom's Taxonomy and PARSA Study Cycle in specific courses - and more widely B. Assessing students' engagement with course activities and content Other colleagues will share specific Low-Threshold Activities/Apps/Assessments (LTAs) and Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) that can be used to support such strategies by faculty and/or directly by students to improve student learning in a variety of courses. In FridayLive! in March we revisited Chickering and Gamson's "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" and Ehrmann's article, "Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever." Metacognition was the most frequent suggestion for an extension of the original Seven Principles. Teaching undergraduate students to use Bloom's Taxonomy to make better decisions about their own studying and learning is a strategy of metacognition. Up-coming FridayLive! Events April 24, 2015 Student Peer Review/Assessment: to Deepen Learning; to Reduce Faculty Workload Both? Either? May 1, 2015 LTAs and CATS for Engaging Online Learners May 8, 2015 Spring 2015 “Book” Discussion Series: Brain Rules May 15, 2013 The Courage to Teach(R) - Experiencing the Circle of Trust(R) May 22, 2015 No FridayLive! May 29, 2015 Real-time student engagement: leveraging tablets for faculty and future faculty development https://tackk.com/tltgbook-discussion Spring 2015 Book Discussion Series May 8, 2015 COGNITIVE SCIENCE Medina, John (2014) Brain Rules, (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Seattle, WA: Pear Press Register Here June 12, 2015 FICTION Alameddine, Rabih (2014) An Unnecessary Woman Nov 11, 2014, Grove Press Register Here @TLTGroup Encourage. Enable. Engage.