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How to Create Powerful Intergenerational Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

Through intergenerational connections and project-based learning, HP Teaching Fellow Kim Mishkin is creating Powerful Learning experiences for students in grades 2–5 at the Hudson Lab School in Hudson-on-Hastings, New York. In this blog post, Kim describes her unique approach to Powerful Learning.

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

ED Surge

Harnessing its learnings from KA Lite, the organization has evolved and expanded its impact by developing an ecosystem of open products and tools called Kolibri. More recently, we worked to understand how to leverage Kolibri to support project-based learning to improve foundational skills through a new project in Uganda.

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Adapting, Balancing, and Collaborating in Mentor Public Schools

Digital Promise

Administrators model teamwork by often conducting their meetings in a glass conference room in Mentor High School’s library, giving students a transparent visual of what it means to serve on a team. are designing project-based learning units collaboratively. Collaborating for greater impact.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

I advise teacher professional learning cohorts to start small if they plan to introduce a project-based learning unit. If they are already working on a project-based learning unit with a cohort, they can find ways to stretch. Interested in learning more? Join me on Tuesday, October 15 at 6 p.m.

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

Digital Promise

In this panel, four learning scientists share the evidence and how edtech can help make it a reality. Libraries as Maker Magnets. What happens in a Future Ready Library? Learn from librarians and educational leaders how libraries engage learners with authentic STEM, computational thinking, and project-based learning.

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Timeless Learning: Progressive Education Based in How Humans Have Always Learned

Digital Promise

This journey demonstrates some answers we have found—multi-age elementary school spaces, high school team programs with the four core subjects taught together, libraries transformed into active Learning Commons, and technology tools that facilitate connectivity with the world, creativity and production, and interactive project-based learning.

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My First Year

Rosie the History Teacher

Has anyone else noticed that birth stories are super popular on blogs all of a sudden? Then I got down to the important work of mapping out my classes for the year and trying to plan some lessons and Project Based Learning. Not judging, I totally read them myself!) I donated 10 inches of my hair to Children With Hairloss.)

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