Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

Thank you for your work on the front lines to ensure our children and youth’s health and education were sustained throughout this difficult year. As Digital Promise team members who have researched and supported teachers’ use of educational technology, we want to recognize and celebrate your successes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 14, 2015

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

And while CEO Barry Malkin is excited that today's artificial intelligence has the power to personalize education in ways we couldn't have imagined just a year and a half ago, it hasn't changed how Carnegie approaches AI: with humans in mind. Carnegie Learning was way ahead of its time with that early version of AI.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

I believe solid curriculum, solid teaching and assessments are what we really need to be focusing on.” As such, it should come as no surprise that, upon learning about Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative , she jumped at the chance to enroll a cohort of her colleagues. Learning is about absorbing knowledge.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2016

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Online homework tools provide teachers with rich, targeted data about where students are struggling, which allows educators to tailor assignments to the specific needs of students. That kind of instructional practice resembles what you see with one-on-one tutoring and can be a powerful lever for improving teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. It's an opportunity for us.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.” The lead author of the paper, Kapur Manu, a professor of learning science and higher education at ETH Zurich, responded to that critique by saying he wanted to push back against an uneven implementation of a popular teaching trend.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. We talk with one of those experts, plus others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

Part two will discuss how edtech vendors can return the favor to develop great working relationships with educators. Whether you’re an educator or product developer, one of the key components to the educational technology (edtech) selection and purchase process is creating a mutually beneficial partnership.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

And by collaborating on research with colleagues through WiKIT, an international research organization focused on edtech evidence, I’ve reviewed multiple tools using generative AI to teach children to read. And product developers could draw from learning science research to build tools that foster children’s self-expression and creativity.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California. He enrolled in a master’s program at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) to pursue a multi-subject teaching credential.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Applying Research to Truly Personalize Learning. One critical aspect of personalized learning is too often missing: the use of learning sciences research to best understand and reach each learner. Putting Learning Science Research to Work. Student Tech Teams Supporting 1-1 iPad Deployments.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Our teaching pipeline is actively broken and rebuilding it will take decades. Lead pipes, lead paint, asbestos, poor ventilation, lack of natural light and many other factors make our school buildings places that inhibit learning and limit teaching. Where are you baking ? It is a recipe for disaster.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Malkin: Carnegie Learning originated at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the most respected research universities in the country, known for its work in education and cognitive science. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do. Why am I doing this? Why is this the answer?

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Here, she explains how Course of Mind is helping her district strategically incorporate learning technology into their curriculum. EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ? It kind of brought back to me the science of teaching.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Listeners to the EdSurge Podcast like to learn about brains—and what research shows can best reach and teach them. Our two most popular episodes of 2022 addressed just that subject, exploring fresh findings in learning science and how educators can apply them. Inclusive Teaching Means Realizing That By Jeffrey R.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Most schools, for the health and safety of their communities, adjusted them in a variety of ways, often making them more “brain-friendly” and aligning them with promising research and strategies in the science of teaching and learning, or what we like to call, Mind, Brain and Education (MBE).

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We recognize that parents have this powerful incentive for children to do well in school, and they can be very effective in teaching children because children learn best when they are with someone they trust and love. Teaching a growth mindset is a fundamental part of how we approach the development for caregivers and teachers.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2023

To address this issue, ISTE has taken a significant step forward by introducing the next iteration of the ISTE Seal , which aims to elevate the importance of usability and strong pedagogy in learning solutions’ product design to both school districts and solution providers. This could be critical for our process.” Barbara Hubert, Ph.D.

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

aimed at teaching concepts of computational thinking to kids ages 3 to 6. 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. And these days he’s putting those ideas into practice — on a big platform.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And that sparked her interest in digging into learning science research that she’s gathered into a recent book, “ The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In many of his videos, he acts out scenes from famous Hollywood films, except swapping in terms from the strategic management courses he teaches. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, effective science communication is vital to fulfilling that obligation. Except, instead of saying “Have I fired six shots or only five today?”

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2022

In the bad-old days of college teaching, especially in technical subjects, professors would stand before a classroom of freshmen and say, “Look to the right, look to the left. In a poll addressed to attendees, I asked them to identify engaging teaching methods they use online and in person. One of them will not graduate.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

And understanding those maps can be a key to better understanding how the mind—and how learning—works, according to Rebecca Schwarzlose, a postdoctoral neuroscientist at Washington University in St. How to Continuously Improve Teaching. This episode capped off our series on the concept of “learning engineering.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2023

Michael Crow, president of Arizona State, said the technology creates a memory of learning that isn’t associated with a rigid, structured way of learning science. “We At the end of each section, students are tested with real-world problems that are similar to what they’ve encountered in the Alien Zoo.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. Flipped Learning Can Be a Key to Transforming Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic. Top 10 Countdown 10. It Depends.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

Will AI literacy soon become as important a subject to teach in schools as reading, writing and math? Many education leaders think so, as ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools sweep into daily life. There’s also the question of how AI literacy fits into efforts to teach coding skills in schools.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Chatbots that leverage AI are going to be a kind of intermediary a translator, says Zachary Pardos, an associate professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley, who is one of the editors on a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics that will be devoted to generative AI in the field.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2024

These standards were designed to move science education away from rote memorization and toward engaging students in practices real scientists use to explore and model the world, fostering deeper understanding of scientific concepts and developing skills like critical thinking, collaboration and communication.

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