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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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Resources like the Challenge Based Learning framework , tools such as Teams , Flipgrid , Pear Deck (especially in student-paced mode ), and Wakelet , and this blog post about creating authentic distance learning in science class can help us prepare for this new type of work.

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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

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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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

I detail it all in this blog post , but heres the gist. Whether its a hotly contested presidential race year or a quiet off-year, if you are teaching civics in the fall, have students research and vote on something on the ballot. Instead, its much more impactful, real-world, and, frankly, easier for students to create their own.

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our research-backed micro-credentials are digital certifications that verify an individual’s competence in a specific skill or set of skills, regardless of where and how they learned them. Delaware Department of Education. King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). National Association for Gifted Children.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Employers cited listening, attention to detail, and communication as the most desired skills they sought in new employees, in the study conducted by the educational consulting firm Cengage and the research firm Morning Consult. In a recent blog post, Trevor Muir suggests that we start calling them “essential skills.”

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Luckily, there’s the Research Map. The Research Map is a hub for learning sciences research. They offer summaries of relevant research, including related tools and resources, as well as videos that highlight major research findings. The answer is: Topic Pages.

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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

Supporting research. 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!

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Since its launch, the DLP has reached 160 schools in 32 districts across 10 states to support school- and district-based instructional technology coaches with mentoring, professional development, and continuous improvement data. To learn more, visit DynamicLearningProject.com and fill out the interest form. References. Hixson, N.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Students have opportunities to work on smaller projects to familiarize themselves with collaborative learning and integrated projects. Simultaneously, we introduce students to the SDGs as focus concepts for the projects. Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

The film shows how, after coaching, one teacher taps the research to turn her class around. Learn how districts are employing a design-thinking Challenge Collaborative model to create, pilot, and scale a solution to address shared real-world learning needs within their local context. See a prototype demo of the solution!

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Students with agency learn more deeply, persist longer in their tasks, and enjoy school more. Thanks to what was at the time new research in the field of self-determination theory, that passion was realized. They are more likely to perform well academically and be better prepared for the requirements of the modern workforce.

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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. We did our usual classroom things: lectures, research, projects, reading, partner work, etc.

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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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