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The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary

TeachThought

Dewey believed that learning was socially constructed and that brain-based pedagogy should emphasize active, experiential learning. The post The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary appeared first on TeachThought.

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Diary of a Coach in training part 3: What does expert coaching look like?

A Psychology Teacher Writes

I’ve been an instructional coach for nearly four years now; while I certainly don’t think I’ve got it cracked yet and would not consider myself an expert, I think I’ve learned a huge amount since starting and want to share some of those reflection here. I’ve written previously about this here and here where I’ve talked about some of the mechanics of coaching.

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

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to the interview with Jenn Borgioli Binis: Sponsored by NoRedInk and Edge•U Badges This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores.

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How Do You Find Edtech Tools that Take Educator Expertise Seriously?

Digital Promise

The post How Do You Find Edtech Tools that Take Educator Expertise Seriously? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Technologist Spent Years Building an AI Chatbot Tutor. He Decided It Can’t Be Done.

ED Surge

When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. This was before ChatGPT existed, and fewer people were talking about the wonders of AI. But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson.

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PROOF POINTS: Two groups of scholars revive the debate over inquiry vs. direct instruction

The Hechinger Report

Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math. One side favors direct instruction, where teachers tell students what they need to know or students read it from textbooks. Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The other side favors inquiry, where students conduct experiments and figure out the answers themselves like a scientist would.

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Two Updates on the Value of Vaccines

Marginal Revolution

1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract 6949) we learn that the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine maintained it’s efficacy over 4 seasons. …Importantly, maintained high efficacy over four malaria seasons with only four doses is demonstrated, with no concerns to date of rebound in those who have not received repeated booster doses of the malaria vaccine.

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My Students Can’t Meet Academic Standards Because the School Model No Longer Fits Them

ED Surge

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it. As I checked in with one student who appeared to be working quietly, it turned out he had carefully solved the first problem, only to write guesses down for the rest.

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After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open

The Hechinger Report

FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio — Ghosts populate the campus of Chatfield College. They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Amid seemingly endless acres of tobacco, soybean and wheat farms in a village in southwest Ohio with a population of 241 , the now-closed college sits at the end of a narrow entrance road flanked by B

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A Silken Web: How Weaving has Shaped Human History

World History Teachers Blog

Here is an excellent essay by the historian, Peter Frankopan, for AEON Magazine about the significance of silk from its accidental development in China to its use as a "symbol of extravagance and decadence" in Afro-Eurasia. It's a great story and the excerpts are for great for the classroom.

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Impacting Instructional Strategies Using Feedback Loops

Digital Promise

Evaluating the effectiveness of instructional strategies requires a holistic approach and goes beyond data.

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Why Some Students Feel Like They Can’t Excel In Math

ED Surge

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. But in college, where she’s a business major, calculus is proving insurmountable. It’s given her severe anxiety.

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Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in ma

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The David Network

Marginal Revolution

I am pleased to have spoken at their yearly conference yesterday. If I understand them correctly (here is their web site ), it is for elite college students — grad and undergrad — at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and the rest of the Ivies. No other schools.

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How We Created an Eco-Justice Fashion Show Driven by STEM and Innovation

Digital Promise

The post How We Created an Eco-Justice Fashion Show Driven by STEM and Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Why Schools Need a Social Worker for Teachers

ED Surge

I’ve been a school social worker for the last 15 years, so I am acutely aware of our nation’s mounting youth mental health crisis. I know that robust mental health and social-emotional support for students are non-negotiable in education and I applaud the new programs and resources designed to address this urgent challenge for our students. But what about the mental health of our educators?

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OPINION: Standardized tests can be great predictors of college success and should not be seen as a cause of inequity

The Hechinger Report

There are few topics in college access and higher education that inspire as much conviction from opposing sides as standardized tests. Over the last few years, many people have come to believe that such tests are at the root of education inequity. Opponents of tests have argued that removing tests from college admissions is the primary way to expand access.

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2024 is already an incredible year for cinema

Marginal Revolution

There is: Poor Things The Delinquents [Los Delincuentes], from Argentina, tragicomedy. The Teacher’s Lounge All of Us Strangers Anselm 3-D The Zone of Interest Of course many of those came out in their respective foreign markets before 2024, but that is not the point. Rather it seems cinema has turned a corner and is vital and original again (though not culturally central?).

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College Presidents for Civic Preparedness Convening at Howard University

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

Citizens & Scholars gathered university presidents from College Presidents for Civic Preparedness for an annual convening at Howard University on January 19-21, 2024.

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The Critical Power Skills Needed for the AI Era

ED Surge

If you’re reading this, you might have AI anxiety. A recent survey from EY research shows that 71 percent of employees with knowledge of artificial intelligence are concerned about it. Considering how AI has rapidly entered education conversations, teachers and administrators are certainly represented in this statistic. Feelings of AI anxiety are valid for a technology that brings so much change and uncertainty.

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A new partnership paves the way for greater use of AI in higher ed

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: When ChatGPT burst into the world at the end of 2022, the prevailing feelings in higher education circles were fear of students cheating

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Matt Yglesias on the media

Marginal Revolution

A point I tried to make on our Politix episode with Will Stancil is that progressive-minded people — and particularly progressive-minded media figures — have a certain ideological investment in the promotion of bad vibes. Younger left-wing people are notably more depressed than politically conservative ones, which may be partially selection effect, but I think is driven by the fact that so much progressive messaging about the world is marked by negativity and doomerism.

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Taking on Parkinson’s Disease—With Boxing Gloves and Punching Bags

Sapiens

In a California gym, people living with Parkinson’s practice noncontact boxing to redefine their experience of the disease and maintain a sense of self. ✽ The smell of Thai food came wafting into the boxing gym from a restaurant across the street. Located in downtown San Diego, the gym storefront’s two large garage doors were rolled open, letting sunshine and breeze spill into the open space.

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This Children’s Book Author and Future Teacher Wants to Help Ignite Joy in Learning

ED Surge

Riley Campbell isn’t one of those aspiring educators who always dreamed of leading her own classroom or who played school with her friends growing up. For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. But a series of unexpected events led her to reconsider her plans.

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OPINION: Our college students are struggling emotionally. We need to understand how to help them

The Hechinger Report

Our students are struggling. As a college president and a clinical psychologist, I know this well. Recent headlines tell a distressing story about the mental health of college students. While the news articles are alarming, it is worth noting that much of the data they cite comes from self-reporting by students. This self-reporting gives us important insights into how our students are feeling, but it is not equivalent to clinical diagnoses.

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Settembrini and the continuing relevance of classical liberalism

Marginal Revolution

Adrian Wooldridge has an excellent Bloomberg column on this topic, promoting the relevance of Thomas Mann, and here is one excerpt: In the book [Magic Mountain], Castorp falls in with two intellectuals who live in the village of Davos below his sanitorium: an Italian humanist called Lodovico Settembrini and a Jewish-born cosmopolitan called Leo Naphta who is drawn to the Communist revolution and traditional Catholicism.

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The Importance of Critical Reading in 2024

Heinemann Blog

The skills of reading and thinking critically have always been a part of learning, curricula, and assessment. We want students to be able to figure things outs for themselves, to evaluate concepts and sources, to compare, contrast, and connect ideas, and to clearly articulate their thoughts. These are essential, 21 st -century skills. Often, however, students will associate critical reading and thinking with test-taking or specific assignments—something they do only in school or in a certain cla

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Research to Impact: Four Steps to Build a Successful Edtech Enterprise

ED Surge

If you build it, will it work? And how will you measure it? Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs.

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Perils of Subsistence on a South Sea Island 

Anthropology News

Note: In 2007–2008, the author was the principal investigator for an NSF-funded study of Taumako voyaging. This incident occurred toward the end of 2008. Waves were breaking over the gunwales of our dugout canoes. We were tired and preparing to call it a night. Luck had not been on our side. I’d spent seven months on Taumako, a Polynesian outcropping in the southeastern Solomon Islands.

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Social improvements that don’t create countervailing negative forces

Marginal Revolution

Let us say you favor policy X, and take steps to see that policy X comes about. Under many conditions, people who favor non-X will take additional countervailing steps to oppose X. And in that case your actions in favor of X, on average, will lead to nothing. In the meantime, you and also your opponents will have wasted material resources fighting over X.

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Explanations for Crime and Deviance: 3. Interactionism

ShortCutsTV

A quick’n’dirty overview of the Interactionist perspective on crime and deviance. Two ideas closely associated with Interactionist approaches are those of deviance as both relative and socially constructed. Relativity refers to the idea that the same behaviour can be considered deviant in one context (or society) but non-deviant in another.

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Stop banging on

Ben Newmark

Adam Boxer has annoyed me. His most recent blog post unpick s the issues caused by unwise group level announcements and I found it challenging. A lot of what he identified as problems is present in my teaching, and it made me see there are issues I didn’t know I had. That’s annoying because it requires a response. Here’s a few things I say to classes in lessons and the reasons that aren’t necessary.

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How Digital Promise is Promoting Learning for Lasting Peace on International Day of Education

Digital Promise

For International Day of Education, Digital Promise reflects on how we’re promoting powerful learning that leads to well-being and fulfillment.

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Teaching Poetry Today

Heinemann Blog

This week on the podcast, Georgia Heard talks about teaching poetry today.

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Explanations for Crime and Deviance: 4. Feminism

ShortCutsTV

A short overview of Feminist perspectives on crime and deviance combining a bit of text with quite a lot of video.

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Principles for more inclusive classrooms. 2. The way children learn is more similar than different.

Ben Newmark

This is part 2 of 5. Part 1 – Inclusion is a contiuum – can be found here. There are myths about how children learn which make inclusion appear hard for teachers to do. Some believe because children learn in very different ways, inclusive mainstream classrooms must mean lots of different children doing different things. This belief was at its peak when VAK learning styles were in vogue, and while these have been for the most part driven out of education the underpinning beliefs remai

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Reflections from Haiti: Our Partners Share Stories of Impact

Digital Promise

As Digital Promise’s pilot work in Haiti continues into its second year, our partners reflect on lessons learned.

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