The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. So research skills, those foundational skills, are a part of it, and that involves parts of a book. They learn about the title, the author, the publisher, and the copyright date.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

Research shows students are more engaged when they connect the learning to their strengths, abilities, preferences and interests. Research suggests that student outcomes can improve when direct instruction is combined with opportunities for practice paired with timely feedback.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Hardwired to Like Likes One of the reasons young people have a tough time unplugging from social media is that their brains are driven by dopamine, says researcher Laura Marciano. Marciano is a research associate at the Harvard T.H.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They do this by mapping courses and activities to institutional competencies: critical thinking, analytical thinking, communication, social awareness and responsibility, creativity and innovation, and leadership and collaboration. “We

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Screenshot courtesy of Gregory Kestin) We are still in the early days of understanding the promise and peril of using generative AI in education. Very few researchers have evaluated whether students are benefiting, and one well-designed study showed that using ChatGPT for math actually harmed student achievement.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

For instance, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving are difficult to assess with a standardized test. Most schools I know didn’t adopt their learning technology initiatives for the sole purpose of test score improvement. Three competing visions of educational technology. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Cognitive engagement: Encouraged students to think deeply about the content. What might educators glean from the findings? As it turns out, yes.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

STEM education is not just about science and math; it develops skills such as creativity, communication, empathy and critical thinking that complement technologies like generative AI and coding. Research is foundational to sustaining and expanding access to all students.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. New rubric guides classroom technology use. The rubric includes a total of six indicators of impactful technology use. US Department of Education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

A recent survey from EY research shows that 71 percent of employees with knowledge of artificial intelligence are concerned about it. Considering how AI has rapidly entered education conversations, teachers and administrators are certainly represented in this statistic. If you’re reading this, you might have AI anxiety.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says. Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ?

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

How can educators develop creativity in today’s students? Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. Creativity builds advocacy skills that employers want, such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

What is your advice for educators who are hesitant to implement AI in the classroom? We must embrace advancing technology and show students how to gain mastery in even higher critical thinking skills. We must embrace advancing technology and show students how to gain mastery in even higher critical thinking skills.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Education is an indispensable profession in our world today, as teachers play a pivotal role in equipping students for the challenges of the future, enabling them to be successful at every stage in life. Research has found that effective professional development is content-focused, incorporates active learning and supports collaboration.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Deploying these tools in that way assumes that quick, iterative feedback drives critical thinking — when what students really need are deep conversations that will pull them in unexpected directions, Aguilar says. As part of his role at the center, Aguilar conducted research into how teachers think about AI in classrooms.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

As students answer questions, they collect points and receive formative feedback to develop critical-thinking skills. Ramping Up Is Hard to Do As with any emerging technology, equity must be at the core. The training content is broken up into short, personalized learning “pills” based on personal goals.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Upon the release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, we noticed that some of our students had suddenly become “experts” at synthesizing research and organizing their term papers, often resulting in perfect scores on their written assignments.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. There wasn't suddenly a massive decline in critical thinking,” Caulfield says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

A growing body of research highlights the efficacy of game-based learning. creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, resiliency) and crosses multiple disciplines (e.g. art, design, technology, sound/music, project management). Making games cultivates a range of hard skills (e.g.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We have made great strides to level the technology playing field in education, but unfortunately the digital divide still exists between those who have the tools to research, learn and collaborate online at home, and those who don’t. Video Courtesy of Redwood City School District. Accessed 29 Sep.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Assessing Drivers of Student Interest and Engagement Amazon Future Engineer , Amazon’s global philanthropic computer science education program, recently commissioned research from Gallup to better understand student interest and engagement in the computer science field.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Research has shown that the more students are able to create, the more they thrive. Students who can combine AI skills with creative problem-solving are able to seize some pretty incredible opportunities. And AI opens up more opportunities for student creation.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And they say the key is to use technology to make the approach more convenient and less draining. What Qi has come to value most from oral exams is that she feels it can be a powerful opportunity to teach students how to think like an engineer. I’m trying to promote excellence and teach students critical thinking,” she says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2024

Spoon has found that the changes also allow her to hold students to a higher standard when it comes to explaining the math concepts, an approach that’s informed by pushes for more focus on critical thinking in classrooms. For instructors like Spoon, that means moving from research insight to classroom action.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Instead, he says, the group is experimenting with using data that schools have about their students — including from after-school activities like sports, clubs and internships — to measure and track progress on skills including communication, collaboration and critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching. schools spend more than $10 billion a year on educational technology. Now, with New York Gov. A RAND Corp.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

In numerous studies that implemented this test, researchers learned that students tend to draw male scientists more as they get older , and almost 80% draw scientists who are white. So, what are educators supposed to do when the standards and resources we rely on are racist and misogynistic?

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative. So we have 20 years of research that shows that these soft skills are more predictive of success in school and in life.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Rolling cabinets stocked with dozens of the laptops sit in classrooms where teachers assign them to students for everything from researching hereditary DNA to writing essays. We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. Students being able to access it is critical,” Porter says.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

Kumar has been a teacher for 19 years and is passionate about creating a learning environment that fosters critical thinking, collaboration and creativity among her students. Students researched and chose an AI model that was appropriate for the problem they were trying to solve.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The energy at the ASU+GSV Education Technology Summit among the entrepreneurs, educators, investors, and talent managers is palpable. First, a report released last year by SRI looked at the research and practice behind “Personal Success Skills” in the workplace as a pathway to great opportunity and advancement.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In a game-based setting, students analyze, ask questions, think critically and foster creativity. New York University also completed a research project with some pretty astounding results. Every day, we see it anecdotally in comments from parents and students regarding confidence in learning, engagement and development.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Research shows that “ students who effectively interacted with learning activities in a course have better results.” Research shows “ the right materials at the right time for the right learners… yield the right results.” So how do they achieve this? Identify the intended learning outcome and create activities around it.

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