Summary: Cognitive science has provided exciting breakthroughs in child development. This video demonstrates how children are learning much more, at much earlier ages than many experts thought possible-and that learning is rooted in emotion as well as logic.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: How could a child be a top math student yet not be able to read? Why can another child read well but not be able to write a paragraph that makes sense? While watching children being taught new ways to learn, this program offers expert insight into the nature of learning disabilities, why learning disabilities may also be accompanied by ADHD or social disorders, and what can be done to help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program outlines a concise three-step process for understanding and retaining information. The steps include exposure, review, and practice. Class attendance is stressed for maximum exposure to material. Valuable advice is provided on how to distill weekly lecture notes into a meaningful study guide. Methods for retrieving information learned include recitation and group study.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Distance learning just might be the perfect option for those who need to update their skills or pursue training for a new career but cannot attend classes full-time. This educational resource illustrates the variety of audio, video, and online opportunities available to those who want to acquire the knowledge needed to move ahead in today's ultra-competitive employment marketplace. Various...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explores alternative approaches and explanations of learning, including latent learning, learning sets, insight learning, ethology, social learning, and neuroscience. The program emphasizes the recent move towards a cognitive theory of learning and examines research in this area. The program includes archival film featuring B. F. Skinner and Dr. Robert Epstein, who demonstrated...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The revolution in information and communication technology and its eager adoption by the Millennials has created significant teaching opportunities-and challenges-for instructors. This program aims both to inform and to inspire educators as it encourages them to make e-learning an integral part of the instructional mix. The evolution of youth communications in the 21st century; implications of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program provides a helpful guide to teachers for recognizing their students' primary styles of acquiring and working with information: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. To illustrate each style's impact on successful classroom learning, discussion focuses on the observation techniques used by visual learners; the hearing and repetition procedures practiced by auditory learners; and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: If diversity and special needs are prominent factors in a learning environment, teachers may have to juggle mandated standards with students' personal challenges. This video addresses that balancing act, demonstrating how experienced educators have mastered it. Focusing on multilevel instructional planning, the program explores the use of educational channels, individualized support, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program describes and demonstrates specific examples of instructional conversation and other types of cognitive coaching; identifies instructional arrangements that are used to promote active learning by students; models questioning techniques and student interactions, including the ways in which cognitive coaches keep student discussion focused and productive; and considers the role that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Recent studies of cardiac arrest survivors suggest that near-death experiences may occur at times when the brain has actually stopped functioning. Drawing conclusions from that research, The Day I Died dares to suggest that the mind is not dependent on the brain-and that NDEs may confirm it. "That the mind is located in the brain is just a hypothesis. It's never been proven," says cardiologist...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Rice University's Richard Baraniuk has a big idea: to replace textbooks with free open-source online educational resources that facilitate curriculum creation and professional collaboration among teachers worldwide. In this TEDTalk, Baraniuk describes Connexions, a Web site that uses Creative Commons licensing to enable teachers to quickly "rip, mix, and burn" coursework without fear of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Eager for knowledge, a child is by nature curious about everything. Why, then, is school such an unpleasant place for some children? In this program, teachers, researchers, a psychoanalyst, a neurologist, a neurobiologist, a psychomotor specialist, and others examine the process of learning and the classroom as a learning center. Mastery of reading and writing-the key to unlocking all forms of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explores the symptoms of clinical depression and the physiological, psychological, and environmental factors that can trigger the illness. Patients evocatively describe their feelings of negativity, isolation, and despair while cognitive therapy pioneer Aaron Beck and other researchers discuss the results of their inquiries into contributory causes of depression. Commentary on...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Working together, administrators, principals, and teachers can give priority to the essential skills children must develop in order to succeed. This program presents the value of a no-nonsense approach to teaching. By maximizing learning time, by structuring curriculums so that mastery of academic content is required to proceed, and by quickly providing extra assistance for students having...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This video illustrates how to lay out, cut, and hide dado joints. Rabbet-and-dado joints are also covered, and cutting dadoes with power tools is demonstrated.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this classic program, internationally known learning disabilities expert Richard D. Lavoie leads a group of educators, psychologists, parents, and children through a series of exercises that vividly illustrate the daily classroom reality of LD students, an experience fraught with F.A.T.: frustration, anxiety, and tension. After the workshop is done, participants discuss strategies for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In the world of literature, weak plots are lamentable, but weak characters are fatal. "You've got to be involved with them," says Vikram Seth. "You can't find them boring. If you find them boring, forget it. Gathering the insights of Seth, Dorothy Dunnett, Emma Tom, Neal Drinnan, Claire Messud, and other experienced authors, this program spells out the essentials of characterization, from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The time-tested mortise-and-tenon is arguably the strongest joint in woodworking. This video shows students how to go about crafting it.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program uncovers what happens in our minds when we learn, remember, and imagine. It reveals how neurons and synapses lay down knowledge in the brain; ways to improve our ability to acquire knowledge, including increased intake of omega-3 fatty acids; how to manipulate memory to recall information more easily; the powerful influence of subliminal messages; and what actually happens during a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With annual sales figures mounting up into the billions of dollars, video games have reshaped the leisure landscape. Who are the brains behind the big-budget masterpieces such as Star Wars: Force Commander and the Turok series, and what is it like to be part of a game development team? In this program, creative directors, writers, designers, artists, programmers, composers, sound effects...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: As e-learning assumes a growing role in professional development, many teachers remain unsure about how to incorporate it. Meanwhile, students use technology in nearly every aspect of their lives and largely expect e-learning to be a part of their education. This program helps beginning and veteran teachers stay relevant in the area of instructional technology, providing practical, stress-free...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Building on the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner, Elena Bodrova and Deborah Leong worked with teachers in urban schools to foster self-regulated learning. This program presents both the theoretical underpinnings of their work and its results as viewers sit in on busy classrooms where students are being helped to take responsibility for their education. The video offers useful viewpoints...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: This program provides an overview of the history of education and distance learning, including an extensive interview with Professor Neil Postman from the first television classroom of the 1950s, Sunrise Semester. From there, the program explores various case studies involving distance learning: a homeless women gets her GED; a handicapped woman graduates from college; and a choreographer puts...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Used increasingly in schools around the world, interactive whiteboards give teachers extraordinary new ways to reach students. This program introduces the interactive whiteboard, explains how it works, and demonstrates specific ways it can be used in the classroom. Viewers will learn about typical board interfaces such as pen or touch-screen, what other tools and technologies can be used in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010