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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

Digital Promise

With that in mind, we invite you to help us tell our stories at SXSW EDU 2019 to spread the word on topics like learner variability, educator micro-credentials, immersive storytelling with 360° technology, maker learning, edtech pilots, data interoperability, and more. Micro-credentials for Leadership and Learning.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

Hello Future uses a curriculum enriched with project-based learning, in which students do longer, in-depth collaborative projects. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Project-based learning is already gaining traction in U.S.

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What Is the Secret Sauce for Deeper Learning?

Cult of Pedagogy

While they were surprised (and disappointed) by what they found, they did find deep learning in some classrooms. From these, they were able to extract the “secret sauce” — a kind of formula for cultivating deep learning in any classroom. They shared their findings in their 2019 book, In Search of Deeper Learning.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. “How How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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STUDENT VOICES: Do transfer high schools really help students succeed?

The Hechinger Report

” Like so many other Baldwin students and alumni, Nia found a home at this small transfer high school, which is built on the principles of project-based learning, restorative justice and student-teacher trust. Miriam Entin-Bell is a 2019 graduate of Bard High School Early College Queens.

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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

The Hechinger Report

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes. Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix.