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Genealogy course takes high schoolers deep into their family histories

The Hechinger Report

Project-based learning has become a popular method of deeply engaging students in assignments they can dig into over the course of several weeks or even months. Brunelle taught the students how to do genealogy research online, in libraries and at the local city hall. Sometimes kids had trouble finding records.

History 138
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New Micro-credentials for Summer Professional Learning

Digital Promise

Educators can demonstrate their skills in cultivating creativity, design-thinking practices, and assessment in their classroom environment and culture. Find micro-credentials that can be earned outside the classroom in our Micro-credential COVID-19 Library , or use the Micro-credential Explorer to find the right micro-credentials for you.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Put like that, they feel benign, almost harmless.

Pedagogy 244
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Timeless Learning: Progressive Education Based in How Humans Have Always Learned

Digital Promise

Our zero-based design lens on innovation tells us first to ask the questions to find the root of the change we hope to make, and to leave aside what we have been taught that school is “supposed” to be.

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Massachusetts districts now trade notes on best paths to personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. What they require is an organizational culture that gives them the permission to do that,” Klau said.

EdTech 89
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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

Diagnosing (with) AI (Angela Jenks) In winter 2024, students in my upper-division Cultures of Biomedicine course took a close look at direct-to-consumer artificial intelligence/machine learning (DTC AI/ML) diagnostic apps. so that they may be queried individually or as larger libraries using a chatbot interface.