ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It’s also important to equip them with professional-quality templates and assets so that the projects they’re creating actually look like professional outputs. Pedagogically, this approach is real-world, authentic, project-based learning. With AI, we’re teaching them to surf in an ever-changing ocean.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. We saw an opportunity to use Minecraft Education as a project-based learning tool in computer science, which is how Level Up Los Angeles was born.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. By partnering with HBCUs, the hope is that the curriculum will be more culturally responsive to the needs of students in the rural South.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments. Who’s going to teach them?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Is it possible, they wonder, to teach all students at all levels together in one class? There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Today, the school requires subject teachers in each grade to teach the same content at the same time. Its students weren’t fooled by the elegant name.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 17, 2021

How can we make a shift and change in culture surrounding onboarding so that new hires do not just get the illusion of being welcomed but truly feel it, not just in the district but in the school as well? Project-based learning in Northwest Iowa. Silver Lining for Learning, Episode 02: Where (when) there is no school.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2023

While some of these staff are newer to teaching, most are experienced educators who have come from other schools, bringing their own backgrounds, beliefs and ideas to the table. We’ve seen a cycle of new initiatives and ideas created by new leadership that disrupted our school structure and culture.

Leadership 91

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching. Never make assumptions about your students based on past revelations from former teachers. Learn about the students and their families, cultures, backgrounds, and interests. Please get to know the students and their families.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Technology, the pursuit of innovation, and advancements in research have fundamentally changed the learning culture in many schools for the better. As I have conducted thousands of walk-throughs in schools, I am always looking at the convergence of instruction and learning. We now live and work in different times.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. Fielding encourages teachers to dive into Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a research-based framework that embraces creative solutions while removing learning barriers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. A major challenge has been navigating administrative red tape to get the right permissions and materials students need to complete their projects.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2019

In this first post of our three-part series, HP Teaching Fellows share how they used teleconferencing to create authentic learning experiences for their students. Keep reading for inspiration on how to create authentic learning experiences with virtual communication in your classroom. Going Beyond the Classroom with Skype.

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Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

Take time to block out the current uncertainties of the world and reflect on what you have control over: your teaching practice. However, this activity will help you build resilience, an essential mindset given the current teaching landscape. What proves that students actually learned? Optimize project-based training.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Instead, the schools have adopted an approach that’s become increasingly popular among education advocates and funders: project-based learning. Projects are organized around the development of skills like student collaboration, problem-solving and self-reflection through assignments that blend research with public presentations.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Plus there’s a ton of research confirming the power of project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, student agency, and so on. A culture of teaching and learning often produces great achievement but a culture of achievement rarely results in great teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2020

Schools and districts looking to support their educators or individual educators looking for streamlined resources can utilize this stack to support digital learning that centers around equity and access. Educators are encouraged to complete this stack in order.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

GLHS is in the process of building a state of the art, three story learning environment that will blend traditional and contemporary (Starbucks) learning spaces, high powered wireless connectivity, project-based learning, and student voice/choice.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The opportunities VILS provided greatly helped foster this success while creating a newfound emphasis on project-based learning. Becoming a Verizon Innovative Learning School opened up a whole new world of teaching and learning for our schools,” added Danielle McClary, the VILS coach for both schools.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

I couldn’t imagine teaching the course without my 4-part test serie s set-up, and with the way I’ve structured things, it’s a fun activity change-up to the regular day-to-day unit assignments. How Not to Teach the Citizenship Test Now here’s where the requirement part ruins it. Sounds easy enough, right?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2018

That’s one of the reasons a different approach to teaching and learning caught my attention several years ago. A member of the nonprofit New Tech Network , the school showed me a different approach in classrooms, whereby teachers connected students with their learning in profound new ways.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. Many educators, including myself ( @drfurman ) and my fellow colleagues, are always willing to assist educators in finding the necessary tools for their classrooms and broaden teaching opportunities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Our teachers deserve specific, concrete instructional (re)design strategies and techniques; short-cycle feedback loops; ongoing conversation with teaching peers about successes and failures; and long-term, follow-up activities that ensure implementation success. 5 great slides about technology, learning, and change. Related Posts.

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

In addition to teaching, he has served as department chair, swim coach, and Russian program manager. Talking about his passion for the work, Daniel said, “My passion for teaching is fueled by my students. Fairfax County Public School System – Fairfax County, Va. ” Stacy Musick. Jill Taylor.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. When we first walked through schools together, Ira saw kids who were bored and not attending.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

My research explores how teachers work together to explore news ways of teaching and learning through makerspaces. Our project began by introducing teachers to a number of innovative ideas and practices in makerspace teaching and learning. Nine more school boards have joined for the second year of the project.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Time constraints to demonstrate a competency are removed in this system of teaching and learning, and student transcripts have been adapted to reflect student progress in this system. Students at KM Perform leave high school with an understanding and ownership of how they learn best.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

With our new flexible schedule, which we were able to implement at no additional cost, we are able to put a much greater emphasis on cross-curricular learning and increase student engagement via enriching new “plus” programs. Students, parents and teachers have been sharing their enthusiasm for our new learning design and schedules.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

Only New Hampshire and Maine have enacted statewide laws to move away from the Carnegie unit, the measure that awards academic credit based on time spent in class. Twenty-nine states allow districts to define their own credits, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. “My teachers are not teaching me!”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

– Establishing our rules of play and group norms – Quick reactions to my TEDxDesMoines talk about extracurricular learning v. traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

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Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. Teaching Machines. Princeton University Press.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Implement and Assess: Implement the chosen options in your teaching practice and assess their effectiveness in helping students apply and transfer their learning. Below are some prompts teachers can use when working with an AI chatbot to generate meaningful choices in a lesson or learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. When students are aware of AI’s capacities as well as its limitations, their writing and research both improve.

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TeachThought

JULY 31, 2024

Not An Argument For Learning Models At this point, this is usually where the conversation turns to learning models–entrepreneurial learning, self-directed learning , mobile learning, play-based learning, project-based learning, inquiry-based learning , blended learning.

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