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Brian Nierman posted a new update…
Update 7: Community and Learning: The Power of Peer Pressure
Students-particularly high school aged- want to fit in with their peers. While they are struggling with etching out their own concept of identity and taking the first steps for a self-actualized self, they are infantile when it comes to their social...More
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Brian Nierman posted a new update…
Update 6: Collective Inteligence and Group Dynamics
Collective Inteligence is the idea that cognition and colloboration can yield a group inteligence. It is the notion that learning and skills acquisition occurs through the collective grappling of concepts and then resting on the laurels of people's...More
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Brian Nierman posted a new update…
Update 5: Social Learning and Teacher Evaluation
I find that social learning is becoming increasing important as schools begin to adapt the Danielson Method of Evaluation of teachers. This is evident in the various standards that stress the importance of students in thinking about their own thinki...More
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Brian Nierman posted a new update…
Update 4: The Brain is a Muscle
I think anytime "how something works" is made accessible, performance is boosted. For example, I had the hardest time learning how to drive a manual transmission. I misused the clutch because I was focusing too much on the MPH readings on the dash...More
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Brian Nierman posted a new update…
Update 3: Brain Breaks and Releasing Pressure
I found the subjects this week to be enlightening especially when the content covers how these pressures and anxieties effect learning. From my experience, when these students matriculate into our schools they have a hard time becoming enfranchised...More
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Brian Nierman posted a new update…
Update 2: Student Centered Learning
This is a very interesting update. It reminds me of my own journey as an educator. I was a teacher in a very traditional building and was lauded for great classroom management that was centered on students diligently taking notes to my engaging lect...More
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Brian Nierman posted a new update…
Update 1: Operational Conditioning With At-Risk Students
Update 1: Operational Conditioning with At-Risk Students Students that are at-risk who don't enjoy the ability to rest on their innate laurels of what it means to succeed in school, do respond to operational conditioning. I have found that when pos...More
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Brian Nierman has one new peer:
- Andrea Fierro
Added on July 09, 2016