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The Power of Networks in Education Innovation

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It requires listening to community, acknowledging harm, and making changes—across partnerships, leadership, culture, funding, and programming. Being intentional about equity has anchored much of our learning. Reimagining learning. Reengaging the role of government. If it isn’t equitable, it isn’t innovative.

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Making Children's Media about STEM More Inclusive

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Today, he’s an assistant professor in learning sciences and STEM education at Drexel University’s School of Education, and he leads the university’s Informal Learning Linking Engineering Science and Technology ( ILLEST Lab ). So you bring what's outside in the culture into the classroom. It's not just cartoons.

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Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

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As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. What is equitable evaluation? The post Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Educators Have Some Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

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It offers advice to tech companies that are jumping into the metaverse, with principles from learning science for how to shape the development of their products and services. We want it to be culturally responsive. The report is clear that the tech offers promises for education. And so that's what we tried to do in this paper.

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Professors Try Teaching With TikTok. But It’s Not for ‘Boring, Lecturing Things.’

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Officials in those states argue that the platform, owned by a company in Beijing, is a threat to cybersecurity, or they are concerned about spying by the Chinese government. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, effective science communication is vital to fulfilling that obligation. “I At least 20 state universities around the U.S.

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