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StudyStream: Boost Your Focus
Author: StudyStream
Students enter this livestream (which is a huge group call) and everyone is muted, but are working on tasks they need to get done (e.g. studying)
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Tags: Website/live stream
6 August 2022
Cognitive Load Theory
Author: John Sweller
Cognitive load theory uses evolutionary theory to consider human cognitive architecture and uses that architecture to devise novel, instructional procedures.
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8 August 2022
myHomework
Author: myHomework
This app allows you to see all the homework that is due for a class, and helps students manage their time to plan accordingly. I have used this for tracking my homework/assignments for my classes.
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Tags: App
6 August 2022
Assistive Technologies for Reading
Author: Ted Hasselbring, Margaret Bausch
Hasselbring and Bausch describe two computer software applications that support learning disabled students in reading material at grade level: Read & Write Gold and READ 180. Read & Write Gold uses synthetic speech to read text aloud while a student watches the text scroll on a computer screen, and includes features to help hesitant writers compose.
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Tags: Assistive Technology
8 August 2022
Arrowsmith: Strengthening Learning Capacities
Author: The Arrowsmith Program
The Arrowsmith Program is based on the application of neuroscientific research and for 40 years we have worked to help students strengthen the weak cognitive capacities underlying a range of learning difficulties.
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6 August 2022
How learning works: A playbook
Author: John Almarode
How Learning Works: A Playbook unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge into promising principles or practices that can be implemented in the classroom or utilized by students on their own learning journey.
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ARECCI Screening Tool
Author: Alberta Innovates
Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI) Screening is a research tool to help determine project risk and relevant ethics reviews.
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Tags: Tip sheets and guides
8 August 2022
Academic Learning: Overcoming Academic Culture Shock.
Author: Queens SASS
This module explores learning in different contexts, acdemic learning at a Canadian institution, and strategies for success.
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6 August 2022
Wisahkotewinowak: An urban Indigenous garden collective in the Waterloo-Wellington region.
Author: Wisahkotewinowak
Wisahkotewinowak is an urban Indigenous garden collective building Land-based relationships across the Grand River Territory.
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8 August 2022
College students’ sense of belonging: A key to educational success for all students
Author: Terrell L. Strayhorn
This book offers readers practical guidelines for belonging, underpinned by theory and research, on students’ social identities, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or the conditions they encounter on campus.
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