Google Founders Talk Montessori (by drmariamontessori)

Montessori is powerful!

Very interesting article on education and memory!

“People tend to try to learn in blocks,” Bjork said. “Mastering one thing before moving on to the next.”

Instead of doing that Bjork recommends interleaving. The strategy suggest that instead of spending an hour working on your tennis serve, you mix in a range of skills like backhands, volleys, overhead smashes, and footwork.

Bjork explains that successful interleaving allows you to “seat” each skill among the others. “If information is studied so that it can be interpreted in relation to other things in memory, learning is much more powerful,” he said. There’s one caveat: Make sure the mini skills you interleave are related in some higher-order way.”

Dr. Montessori. From a letter written in 1947. (via verymontessori)

Oh wait…you mean…children are important?? How we treat people as kids determines how they treat people as adults.

I love this!

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Taylor Mali on what teachers make (by jacklefttown)

FUCKING SMACKDOWN.

watch this, watch this, watch this. and never forget what teachers do for us.

Being a teacher is truly valiant. 

(via afightforloveandglory)

Amazing ideas about the future of education, where kids get instruction from videos at home (where they can pause/replay as much as necessary) and do homework at school, where teachers can help! EDUCATION REVOLUTION NOW.

(via Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com)

Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Video on TED.com

Yes!! Learning occurs in the real world. It should be organic, natural.