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michaelneale
on Dec 10, 2008
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Effective teachers have a gift for noticing what o...
Does it bother anyone else that a researcher has to use "withitness" when other words or definition would have sounded better and read less like pop-psychology noise?
create_account
on Dec 10, 2008
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He's hoping to coin a phrase like "tipping point" and turn it into a best-seller.
(I don't like it, either, but it does make sense from a marketing perspective)
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Withitness is actually a standard term in the research it was coined by educational theorist Jacob Kounin in 1970.
michaelneale
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really? I will assume so as I am too lazy to google this time of the morning. In that case I take it all back !
michaelneale
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Yes I could see how someone might try to do that. I need to coin something - any ideas?
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