Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

Since the fall 2016 meeting of the League of Innovative Schools , superintendents from around the country have connected with leading researchers in the field of maker learning. Investigating the social values and purposes that maker learning programs promote.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

To implement continuous improvement and scaling processes with an equity focus, leaders might create structures and processes to embed equitable continuous improvement into their everyday culture. Stay tuned for more lessons from this course by subscribing to the Learning Sciences Connections newsletter.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Many teachers have been trained to think of belonging as only a product of classroom culture and student social relationships, that ultimately students have to learn to negotiate and navigate. What you teach and how you teach it plays a strong role in whether students feel like they belong , particularly in math classrooms.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

They are seeing positive results and encourage other schools, no matter the structure or curricular focus, to experiment with using the learning sciences. Integrate research into existing culture/practices: Find easy ways to integrate research into existing practices that align with your institution’s mission and structure.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights?

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

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. So this is a team thing.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In the last 20 years, there has been an increased focus on equitable evaluation , or evaluation that takes into account culture and context. These methods include: culturally responsive evaluation , participatory evaluation , collaborative evaluation , and empowerment evaluation.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

Do you wonder how learning works? Are you looking to design learning environments to support a range of learners? The Research Map is a hub for learning sciences research which connects education leaders, policymakers, and technology developers with research findings that can inform their work. Cultural Responsiveness.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And that sparked her interest in digging into learning science research that she’s gathered into a recent book, “ The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.” And so the extended mind kind of invites us to remember what we have forgotten as a culture. What's that look like?

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2022

So I explored the notion of caring pedagogy and discovered, to my surprise, that it goes all the way back to the 1930s and ‘40s, to the pioneering work of Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky, noted in learning-science circles among the founders of social constructivist theory. But perhaps the greatest barrier is departmental culture.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

While many districts, schools, and educators understand the need to shift to a culture of personalized learning, many others still struggle to transition fully from the one-size-fits-all approach and truly change instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

But what seems to be missing from the conversation is how technologies — especially those powered by AI and machine learning — can worsen racial inequality, if we’re not careful. Thoughtless expansion of tech tools into the classroom can exacerbate the discrimination Black and Hispanic students already face, experts warn.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Keep reading to find out more about the design and research activities that informed the making of the app and other CT learning activities for preschoolers. Our team brought together public preschool teachers; families from culturally diverse, low-income communities; curriculum and media designers; and researchers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2019

Powerful learning practices are attuned to the variability of individual learners and ensure that learning is accessible to all. Learning sciences research shows that these differences matter for learning. Agency and autonomy are key motivational factors in learning and in life.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary —a milestone that speaks to a decade of improving educational outcomes through powerful and innovative learning experiences ??grounded grounded in learning sciences research.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Applying Research to Truly Personalize Learning. One critical aspect of personalized learning is too often missing: the use of learning sciences research to best understand and reach each learner. Putting Learning Science Research to Work. Participants will walk away with new ideas!

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

How CT can be linked with other STEM subjects promoted in early learning, such as math and science. We learned that CT is often already present in children’s everyday lives. What does computational thinking look like in preschool?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

In science education, cultural origins and ethnic diversity are not marked as topics of discussion. It is within the lines of poetry that students can discover, celebrate and appreciate other cultures, dialects, ethnicities, world views and experiences. Both authors are NU Public Voices Fellows through The OpEd Project.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Malkin: Carnegie Learning originated at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the most respected research universities in the country, known for its work in education and cognitive science. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do. We take this very seriously.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

What are technology-integrated lessons that are responsive to students’ beliefs, values, and cultures? gain 21st-century skills and habits of mind that are essential for their well-being? get to know me and each other better? Frameworks for educational technology may be useful for identifying your areas of strength and next steps.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mississippi Learning. Research shows links between language learning and other enhancements — more flexible thinking, greater empathy, protection against age-related cognitive decline — although findings are hardly robust. For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

What we now know in learning science is that learning is complex, often unpredictable, and a socially developed phenomenon.”. If we want schools to support human development and learning, Wilson says, we need to begin to question some of what we’ve inherited. Adults use these spaces too!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Such pursuits are increasingly unusual in today’s standardized testing culture, especially in schools that serve low-income populations (roughly three-quarters of Elm City children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a standard measure of poverty). “The It’s a hard thing to measure, but learning science suggests that this is the case.”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Katrina Stevens, Director of Learning Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, also shared a vision for how mature EdClusters can collaboratively design, evaluate, and scale promising tools and practices. Kim Smith details a re-calibrated vision for #edclusters and League of Innovative Schools. REPORTS FROM THE FIELD.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

During my career, I have obtained three degrees in education and social policy, cultural and educational policy studies and learning sciences — not to mention, I am currently working on a doctoral degree, as we speak.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

She and a colleague published a journal article about their experience last year, called “ TikTok: An Emergent Opportunity for Teaching and Learning Science Communication Online. ” “It is the ethical responsibility of researchers to disseminate findings with the public in a timely way,” the paper concludes. “As

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Chatbots that leverage AI are going to be a kind of intermediary a translator, says Zachary Pardos, an associate professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley, who is one of the editors on a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics that will be devoted to generative AI in the field.

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