Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The search engine for edshelf allows you to narrow down your needs based on a variety of options such as subject, platform, and cost. Read edtech-focused blogs. Reading the posts on these blogs can help you uncover many good ideas. Could this product provide a project-based learning experience?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 18, 2015

I just left this comment at Tony Tepedino’s blog in response to his statement that we have to stop pretending that academic rigor can only occur in a traditional classroom setting: I have seen innovative, project-based learning environments killed – by OTHER TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL!!!!

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In some respects, this blog has become my excuse to reflect each week on my professional work. From a UDL perspective, student agency also creates opportunities for diverse groups of learners to decide how they want to learn, engage with information, or demonstrate their learning. #8 1 Relationships need to be our #1 priority.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Let’s embrace this newfound agency this fall, while still supporting those who are building their independent learning skills. When evaluating edtech tools, look for those that are certified as research-based to support the needs of the diverse learners in your classrooms and schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

A host of organizations have stepped into the fray offering training and advice for teachers contemplating online learning for the first time. Many teachers have been practicing blended and online learning for years.

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

This cohort program is dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. This blog post is the first in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2020

As distance learning continues, teachers are creating and implementing authentic learning opportunities while physically separated from their students. Bibbs-Fox said this project is the most authentic project-based learning experience she has worked on with her students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2017

Yet another might work toward integration of its teaching staff into online, project-based learning communities of practice, with a goal of sparking more student-driven learning in its local classrooms. As varied as innovative schools are, they share one aspect in common: they’re amazing places for student learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2019

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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

“I’ve had conversations with over 100 community organizations and individuals who reached out to us or are in our community and network who found out about Maritime High School and are excited about being involved, which is critical for project-based learning,” added Stephanie Burns, program director at Maritime High School.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

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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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

We are transitioning to more project-based learning environments where students can explore, problem solve and report their work back to others. How we measure learning is going to continue to evolve. When we focus on skill development, we are really readying them for today’s learning and tomorrow’s as well.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Zaretta clarified, “Social learning is having kids do hard things as a result of being in a group and talking, project-based learning, maker education integrated arts, etc.”. However, this doesn’t mean teachers should simply assign more group work. More resources on culturally responsive teaching.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I integrated project-based learning and technology in all kinds of ways. I asked them to create blogs to interact through blended learning. Who’s going to teach them? And I realized I’m the one who is going to teach them these skills. I asked my English language learners to create films. Did we have failures?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In a recent blog post, Trevor Muir suggests that we start calling them “essential skills.” Their applied projects are typically shaped by human factors that require careful cultivation of soft skills to be effective. From this, the most compelling components of the work often emerge.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

UTeach Computer Science provides classroom-ready high school computer science curricula and teacher professional development to foster computational thinking and engage all students through hands-on project-based learning. Delaware Department of Education.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

The district is also part of Digital Promise’s competency-based education working group and its offshoot – a cross-district collaboration nicknamed the “COW Project” with Kettle Moraine School District and Vista Unified School District , where teachers in three states (California, Ohio, and Wisconsin – hence, COW!)

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at regional, state, national, and international conferences. In 2011 he was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Register here! Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Day 3: Problem- and Inquiry-Based Learning – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Crowdsourcing – Understanding how Wikipedia really works – Crowdsourcing ideas for students and teachers – Essential elements of project-based learning – PBL v.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2019

In her role as an instructional technology coach, HP Teaching Fellow Colleen McNerney collaborates with teachers throughout Elizabeth Public Schools (New Jersey) on projects that infuse technology into project-based learning. Colleen was asked by Francisca Alvarado, one of the teachers at William F. Halloran School No.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

One key term that seems to be popping up as a priority at schools is “project-based learning.” The Project-Based Learning Topic Page discusses the history around this approach, and how engaging, authentic, and inquiry-based approaches can benefit all students.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

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.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

.” These pathways include ways for students to design their own learning, connect with real-world experts, react to real-world problems, learn in flexible and adaptable learning spaces, and benefit from a priority on project-based learning and maker-infused curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund. Shortly after leaving that post, Riley planted his skeptic’s flag with an oft-cited blog post titled, “Don’t Personalize Learning.”. “We

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The opportunities VILS provided greatly helped foster this success while creating a newfound emphasis on project-based learning. Becoming a Verizon Innovative Learning School opened up a whole new world of teaching and learning for our schools,” added Danielle McClary, the VILS coach for both schools.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Project-Based Learning: Design cross-disciplinary projects that integrate multiple subjects into real-world applications. Regular Content Blocks: Schedule dedicated time for social studies and science each day or week. Alternating Units: Rotate between social studies and science to allow for deeper exploration.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To learn more, visit DynamicLearningProject.com and fill out the interest form. Extended Professional Development in Project-Based Learning: Impacts on 21st Century Skills Teaching and Student Achievement. References. Hixson, N. Ravitz, J., & Whisman, A. West Virginia Department of Education.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Education has evolved fantastic approaches to motivating learning experiences, including project-based learning, problem-based learning, making, inquiry, game-based learning, design thinking, and many more that focus on students engaging in meaningful ways with real challenges that support content learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Through a partnership with the New Tech Network, Evergreen School District’s Bulldog Tech is a public middle school, serving 300 students, that emphasizes project-based learning (PBL). At Bulldog Tech, students manage their own time in the absence of bells and meet project deadlines rather than homework completion.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

Learn from librarians and educational leaders how libraries engage learners with authentic STEM, computational thinking, and project-based learning. Micro-credentials for Leadership and Learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Over the course of two and a half days, education leaders showcased their efforts toward advancing equity in their district and shared best practices around topics such as real world learning, social emotional learning, and culturally competent maker learning.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

I detail it all in this blog post , but heres the gist. Instead, its much more impactful, real-world, and, frankly, easier for students to create their own. We make them by going directly to the sourcesthe party platforms themselves. I have students read and compare the platforms preambles.

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