The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Her son’s story will be on display for all the world to see when the new Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum open their doors for the state’s bicentennial next month. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

That’s why I’m convinced that we as a nation have to prioritize civics education in schools to encourage civic engagement, empathy and critical thinking to sustain our constitutional democracy. Unlike the majority of my peers, I am receiving a robust civics education, but it is largely outside of school.

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

The educational model was started in medical schools where clinical scenarios required students to think practically and collaboratively to develop important critical thinking skills. Once they submit their comment they see the responses of their team members, as well as feedback from the facilitator, to use on subsequent clues.

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Archaeology Anthropology Museum Pedagogy 264

TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology by Terry Heick It’s possible that there is no time in the history of education that our systems of educating have been so out of touch with the communities. Technology has many forms, but in education, it is most visible in terms of computing hardware and software.

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Artifacts Project-Based Learning Museum Cultures 289

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Many educators, including myself, routinely talk about the need for innovation in education. Innovation in education can defined as creating, implementing, and sustaining transformative ideas that instill awe to improve learning. If we continue to employ the same type of thinking then we will get the same or results.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 12, 2011

Holocaust Museum last year? holocaust Museum I found Mr. Feigl to be extremely articulate and he was able to recall events with clarity and detail. With the integration of technology and a passionate educator, an authentic element can be constructed in a way that engages learners like never before. Donated to U.S.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

APRIL 17, 2024

A visit to the National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall, whether in-person or online, offers connections for learners of all ages with experts, new ideas, and ways to take action in preserving the environment

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

While digital 3D modeling of excavation sites is now common, its full potential has remained untapped, primarily serving as a tool for public engagement and education. The team matched 3D scanned pottery fragments with physical artifacts, streamlining their study of sherds located in distant museum collections.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Today, the use of this technology in education settings is underway, and states are even beginning to release guidance on how to navigate AI in schools. Over the past year, the tone of that guidance has shifted from skepticism and resistance to acceptance and optimism, according to an analysis from the Center for Reinventing Public Education.

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NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). The Great Plains region is one of six across the country whose role is to provide subgrants to organizations seeking to include Library resources in their educational programming.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

In these studies, researchers typically observed parents and children interacting in a university lab, a school, a museum or at home and kept track of how often parents mentioned numbers or shapes. Parents who talk more about math may also have higher incomes and more education. Ordinary sentences that included numbers counted.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Outdated education fails to dispel this disinformation. At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA. Scholars such as biologist and educator Brian Donovan have tested how these simplified examples influence students’ thinking.

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Ancestry Education Humanities K-12 145

Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

A supportive and engaged group of educators. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Yet such nondegree certifications aren’t new to higher education: Colleges already offer certifications in everything from digital marketing and data analytics to cosmetology. Certificate programs multiplied too, particularly after the development of continuing education units in the late nineteenth century.

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Pedagogy to Share

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When I arrived in Rethymnon in Crete from Israel, I knew I would be participating in a GatherED international workshop about language education in multi-lingual and multi-cultural classroom environments. I flew to Rethymno with four Oranim College of Education colleagues. Pedagogical wisdom went into planning the activity.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders to support transformative teaching and learning in their region. Department of Education. And how are they collaborating?

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

A supportive and engaged group of educators. Discussion of primary documents. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars ! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Change in higher education historically has been a dynamic process involving two sectors—one consisting of mainstream institutions and the other a grab bag of diverse, nontraditional organizations, service providers and emerging models. The earliest users were students unable to attend or afford in-person classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Though the past year has put a spotlight on the limits and possibilities of using technology for teaching and learning, we began exploring the utility of using virtual reality as a medium for Holocaust education before the pandemic reshaped the educational landscape. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators. –Networking: Connect with educators from various backgrounds to discuss shared challenges and exchange ideas and explore innovative teaching strategies.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

There are already educational institutions using virtual reality to place learners in a real-life scenario to apply their knowledge and skills. In fact, virtual reality simulation training is being used to recreate a hospital ward for student nurse education (Elliman, Loizou, and Loizides, 2016). References. Elliman, J., 2016.7590377.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages! The agricultural history of the Arkansas Delta region.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In September, Digital Promise launched a series of events to support educators with continuing and growing maker learning opportunities that meet the needs of learners through distance learning and beyond. We gained insight from educators on the barriers that exist to continue making in new contexts like distance and hybrid learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

And a year into the pandemic, federal financial support has only now begun to arrive in the form of public education dollars set aside for enrichment. A child enjoys free time at the Museum School after-school program in Greenville, South Carolina. The lack of systemic support at city and state levels has come at a great cost.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. Fortunately, some innovators are providing inspiration.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

The arts have been part of public education almost from the beginning. Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning. Arts education steadily increased throughout most of the 20th century. Why learn art in school? Large trial.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Our lab is no museum—it is a makerspace, a design laboratory, a place to combine creativity and inspiration. But our lab is no museum—it is a makerspace, a design laboratory, a place to combine creativity and inspiration.”. Jonathan Lubas Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Coach, E Prep Cliffs.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. If you can’t find one, don’t worry.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

Department of Education visited with a group of Polish educators to learn more about how our school teaches the Holocaust and genocide. The nine educators who visited New Milford were part of the International Leadership Program of the U.S. Department of Education. Department of Education.

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Museum Leadership Pedagogy High School 150

Teaching Anthropology

JUNE 12, 2023

London Anthropology day, 30 th June 2023, British Museum Are you fascinated by different cultures? View the programme and book here: [link] #LAD2023 #anthropology #university #learn #teaching #teachers #teachinganthropology #londonanthropologyday #students #education #universities #career #london Image by Frans van Heerden (Pexels)

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

Schedule Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept. 15, 5:00-6:30 pm ET: Freedom Teaching in the Movement Roundtable Discussion (in-person and livestreamed ) Nov. 16, 10:00 am-12:00 pm ET: Organizing Tradition Roundtable Discussion Workshop (in-person only) Nov. Schedule Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2021

Intrigued, she signed up for the seven-month program, offered by Partners for Education at Berea College and the federal Promise Zone program. Educators say many children have lacked access to books at school this year due to pandemic-related protocols. In rural places, the library and the school are the hubs,” Gentry said.

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Library Museum Professional Development Cultures 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I

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Museum Elementary School Professional Development K-12 112

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching and learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building and leverage both well-known and lesser-known stories in American history are freely available online for use in the classroom and at home

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American History History Museum Cultures 71

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

How can research help everyone who is working to improve education, including teachers, educational leaders, designers, technologists, and policy makers? In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings.

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