Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To deepen this work, Digital Promise has launched the Center for Inclusive Innovation , which will partner with districts and communities to pilot a research and development(R&D) model radically centered in amplifying marginalized voices. Being intentional about equity has anchored much of our learning. Reimagining learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. The participation of HBCUs is notable in part because they play a key role in training future K-12 science teachers.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Memorizing formulas and drilling in the “proper” approach through repetition too often take precedence over conceptual understanding and experiencing multiple strategies, both of which are important according to research. How can we make students feel like they belong in the math classroom? Tips for Promoting Math Engagement.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

While most programs are still in pilot stages, preliminary research shows that micro-credentials can—and in some cases, do—lead to job promotions, higher wages, and increased self-confidence for rural learners. An increasing population of Latino/a residents has contributed to the cultural and social context of the region.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

course leads, department chairs, and other higher education leaders) to respond by creating more equitable digital learning opportunities. As a team of white researchers/educators, we started the design process by acknowledging our layers of privilege, including the years of education and experience our privilege has facilitated.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

But rather than play-by-play news, readers sought analysis and commentary about how the crisis continues to change culture and conditions at colleges across the country. Young Research into how to hold students’ attention in online courses. The story was part of a series on learning engineering and learning science.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The project looked at how those skills could be integrated in common preschool and home STEM learning experiences in mutually supportive ways. Through our collaborative design and research process, we developed activities that are developmentally appropriate and easy for teachers and parents to do with children in the classroom and at home.

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

Kareem Edouard has been doing research for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. He’s applying his research as a creative producer for a new show on PBS called Work It Out Wombats! 1, young people aren't really listening to you as a teacher, they are absorbing culture outside of the classroom.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But what if those typical metaphors for our brains are limiting our capacities to think and learn? 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.” What's that look like?

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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. Quinn Burke, Director of Computational Thinking Research.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In education, Black and Hispanic students face inequities in schools every day, whether through disciplinary actions, course placement or culturally irrelevant content. Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the digital learning gap. Learning sciences research shows that these differences matter for learning.

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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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. 100,000 Pyramid: Maker Research Edition. Come and have fun with the $100,000 Pyramid Game: Maker Research Edition. Let’s use VR for good.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Recently, policymakers and researchers have advocated for CT to be promoted in school, to prepare and empower children to be active citizens in a technology-driven world. Little is known, however, about whether and how CT can strengthen early learning in consequential ways. What does computational thinking look like in preschool?

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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

MAY 19, 2021

As Digital Promise team members who have researched and supported teachers’ use of educational technology, we want to recognize and celebrate your successes. After taking some time to reflect on your learnings, you’ll be ready to create a plan to sustain your technology practice in the school year to come.

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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. A lot of us who study what we call the science of learning have been very, very interested in the quick rise in technological alternatives for young children.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

We want to pause that momentum and turn discussions towards the learning goals that will matter most in the community — and really get concrete about what that learning looks like in everyday interactions.”. What we now know in learning science is that learning is complex, often unpredictable, and a socially developed phenomenon.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

The clarity of a good poem is the ideal tonic for the meandering writing so often characteristic of grants and research papers. That’s just the writing, not counting the time spent on doing the research. Clearly written papers and research grants are more likely to pass through peer review than ill-phrased offerings.

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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. In some academic fields research is going global. In some academic fields research is going global.

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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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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

teens say they use the service, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey , and TikTok recently surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the internet. She challenged students to put their TikTok skills to use explaining science concepts, and what research looks like, to the public with posts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. One possible application is to use new AI tools to help educators and researchers make sense of all the student data theyve been collecting.

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