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Ed-tech Developers: Share How You Use Research

Digital Promise

With more and more educational technology tools on the market, schools and universities , the government , and parents all want to know, Which products are effective for which teachers and students? The three categories are: Learning Sciences : How developers use scientific research on how people learn to inform product design.

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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

ED Surge

Due to the way current education systems are structured and how governments, philanthropy and others choose to invest their resources, these children will not get access to the quality early learning they deserve. We share similar small activities with parents and invite them to share with their communities.

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Educators Have Some Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

ED Surge

This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” It offers advice to tech companies that are jumping into the metaverse, with principles from learning science for how to shape the development of their products and services. That would be very problematic.

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Making Children's Media about STEM More Inclusive

ED Surge

Then he switched careers to become a kindergarten teacher and later a high school teacher before going back to get a doctorate in education from Stanford University. This is a multibillion-dollar industry, and it has tracks where you can get government funding. The second thing is just to be very direct. It's not just cartoons.

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Not Even Companies Know if Their Edtech Products Work. Can Learning Science Fix That?

ED Surge

According to Noakes, Digital Promise has found that the companies who went through their certification process report that using learning sciences in the design process allows their products to be more dynamic. The process was relaunched this year.

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Professors Try Teaching With TikTok. But It’s Not for ‘Boring, Lecturing Things.’

ED Surge

Officials in those states argue that the platform, owned by a company in Beijing, is a threat to cybersecurity, or they are concerned about spying by the Chinese government. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, effective science communication is vital to fulfilling that obligation. At least 20 state universities around the U.S.

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