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?

Tutoring 116

Tutoring Project-Based Learning Tradition Teaching 116

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. She supports students in exploring their gifts and interests through projects and encourages educators to start by substituting a traditional assignment with an opportunity to create.

Advocacy 107

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 107

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For instance, the Hewlett Foundation and the American Institutes for Research have been studying ‘deeper learning schools’ in project- and inquiry-based learning networks such as High Tech High, the New Tech Network, Big Picture Learning, and the EL Schools. Dreaming big at Iowa BIG.

Project-Based Learning 104

Project-Based Learning Tradition Cultures High School 104

Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

Peer-based learning, structured learning environments, and team-based competition are all strategic learning principles that are here to stay. Hybrid and virtual classrooms, and personalized and project-based learning used to be considered “alternative” methods of education.

Project-Based Learning 52

Project-Based Learning Professional Development Tradition Cultures 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 18, 2015

I just left this comment at Tony Tepedino’s blog in response to his statement that we have to stop pretending that academic rigor can only occur in a traditional classroom setting: I have seen innovative, project-based learning environments killed – by OTHER TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL!!!! Related Posts.

Project-Based Learning 103

Project-Based Learning Leadership Tradition Cultures 103

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

We learn more through interactive projects and our own successes/failures than through traditional means of assessment (i.e. The learning process is a partnership between teacher and student. The students want and need a voice in how they learn and how they demonstrate their learning.

Project-Based Learning 247

Project-Based Learning Tradition Leadership High School 247

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.

Pedagogy 225

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 225

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. “No

Middle School 84

Middle School Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Cultures 84

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Two years ago he apparently had tried to give his students some choice in terms of both how they learned the material and their final work products but apparently student disinterest in the unit topic and/or how he framed the work were enough to overcome his early attempts at giving his students some agency and it went miserably.

Leadership 0

Leadership Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Cultures 0

Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests. KM Perform is a school for arts and performance that is entirely competency-based, in which students focus on music, theatre, creative writing, or visual art.

Middle School 63

Middle School Charter School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 63

Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

And they recorded improvements in academic achievement, particularly among students with learning disabilities and those who struggle in a traditional classroom setting. A maker culture fosters 21st-century skills such as communication, collaboration and creativity. They also noticed a reduction in discipline problems.

Elementary School 61

Elementary School Critical Thinking Lesson Plan Cultures 61

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Day 3: Problem- and Inquiry-Based Learning – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Crowdsourcing – Understanding how Wikipedia really works – Crowdsourcing ideas for students and teachers – Essential elements of project-based learning – PBL v.

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

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.

Charter School 72

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 72

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

They can also be more hypothetical, like the situational judgment test that medical schools use to assess behavioral skills that doctors need, like teamwork, resilience and cultural competency. I think the testing industry is very nervous,” he says.

K-12 142

K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 142

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Related: Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix. These students come from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. That’s not overcome in five years,” said Joanne Ferroni, who, as director of university and community partnerships at Drexel, oversees the implementation of the grant.

Charter School 100

Charter School Economics High School Project-Based Learning 100

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

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. When students are aware of AI’s capacities as well as its limitations, their writing and research both improve.

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Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 92