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This week on FridayLive! we dive head long into metacognition as we explore ways to Help students make more thoughtful choices about how to study and learn  This will be with the help of Doug Eder and Saundra McGuire.  You will want to join us on Friday. More information here.

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PLANNING MEETING: 3rd Spring 2015 Discussion -COGNITIVE SCIENCE Brain Rules & TLTG Institutional Membership DiscussionDate: April 29, 2015Time: 3:00 PM ETPresenters: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, TLT Group and othersRegister Here
3:00 - 3:30 PM ET In this session we will talk together about howbest to design the third book discussion in our spring series. Thislink will take you to more information about the event and how to register,

COGNITIVE SCIENCESelection #3 comes from our cognitive science survey:Medina, John (2014) Brain Rules, (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Seattle, WA: Pear Press
Explore theauthor’s website and download the 12 Brain Rules.Listen to a 3 minuteYouTube introduction from John Medina.
NOTE: You can support The TLT Group indirectly by purchasing books from Amazon via links in our recommended reading list or shop using thisAmazonSmile link. Amazon will then make a donation to the TLT Group.

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Help students make more thoughtful choices about how to study and learn (face-to-face and online):  Reasons, strategies, and resources
Date: May 1, 2015Time: 2:00 PM ETPresenters: 
Steve Gilbert & Beth Dailey, TLT Group, Douglas Eder, Emeritus, Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleSaundra McGuire - Ret.) Assistant Vice Chancellor  & Professor of Chemistry Director Emerita, Center for Academic Success Louisiana State UniversityRegister Here
Why should students understand more about their own options for studying and learning? How can they take more responsibility for their own learning?  How can faculty enable students to make more effective choices about their own learning?   
McGuire and Eder will describe how undergraduate students can improve their own learning rapidly and significantly in most courses (both face-to-face and online) by using  strategies such as:A.  Teaching students to apply Bloom's Taxonomy and PARSA Study Cycle in specific courses - and more widely
B.  Assessing students'  engagement with course activities and content  
Other colleagues will share specific Low-Threshold Activities/Apps/Assessments (LTAs) and Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) that can be used to support such strategies by faculty and/or directly by students to improve student learning in a variety of courses.
In FridayLive! in March we revisited Chickering and Gamson's "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" and Ehrmann's article, "Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever." Metacognition was the most frequent suggestion for an extension of the original Seven Principles.  Teaching undergraduate students to use Bloom's Taxonomy to make better decisions about their own studying and learning is a strategy of metacognition. 
Up-coming FridayLive! EventsApril 24, 2015 Student Peer Review/Assessment: to Deepen Learning; to Reduce Faculty Workload Both? Either? May 1, 2015 LTAs and CATS for Engaging Online LearnersMay 8, 2015 Spring 2015 “Book” Discussion Series: Brain RulesMay 15, 2013The Courage to Teach(R) - Experiencing the Circle of Trust(R)May 22, 2015 No FridayLive! May 29, 2015 Real-time student engagement: leveraging tablets for faculty and future faculty development


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 Spring 2015 Book Discussion Series

May 8, 2015COGNITIVE SCIENCEMedina, John (2014) Brain Rules, (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, Seattle, WA: Pear Press
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June 12, 2015FICTIONAlameddine, Rabih (2014) An Unnecessary Woman Nov 11, 2014,  Grove Press
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