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Why Students Don’t Like School, and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 4)

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

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Miss Part 1, 2 or 3 of the series? Check it out here. I recently read Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. As I was reading Willingham’s investigation, I noticed that most of the real reasons Willingham argues that students don’t like school can be eliminated or reduced through continuous adaptive learning technology. In my first… Read more

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Why Students Don’t Like School, and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 3)

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

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Miss Part I or Part II of the series? Check it out here. I recently read Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. As I was reading Willingham’s investigation, I noticed that most of the real reasons Willingham argues that students don’t like school can be eliminated or reduced through continuous adaptive learning technology. In my first… Read more

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Why Students Don’t Like School, and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 2)

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

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Miss Part I of the series? Check it out here. I recently read Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. As I was reading Willingham’s investigation, I noticed that most of the real reasons Willingham argues that students don’t like school can be eliminated or reduced through continuous adaptive learning technology. In my first post of this… Read more

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Why Students Don’t Like School — and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 1)

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

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Ask students why they don’t like school, and you’ll get several answers: it’s “hard,” “boring,” “disconnected from reality” or “only for smart people.” The real answer is of course more complex than any of these responses would suggest. To get a deeper understanding of the matter, I recently read one man’s investigation: Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for… Read more

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