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Meet Digital Promise’s New President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard

Digital Promise

The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes. ELW : I’m glad you brought up the need to connect technology with learning sciences research, since we often talk about how Digital Promise works at the intersection of educators, researchers, and developers.

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With Stressed-Out Students in Challenging Times, Faculty Must Embrace Caring Practices

ED Surge

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.

Pedagogy 108
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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Wilson wants to learn science-specific vocabulary and have Spanish skills “to communicate across barriers.” Costel-Tudor Voica, a junior from Moldova majoring in economics, said that being in a class with native speakers was thrilling: “I can take my Chinese to the next level.”.