ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. It's not just about meeting you where you are but understanding who you are,” Strachan says of culturally responsive teaching strategies.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

Many believe that technology is the key to addressing any perceived learning loss, as well as redefining teaching and learning. There is a learning revolution taking place. However, it’s important to also recognize that the pandemic has afforded teachers the opportunity to teach differently.

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EdTech K-12 Professional Development Project-Based Learning 103

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 12, 2015

A school board member said to me a while back: Scott, I hear what you’re saying about active, hands-on, project-based learning. How do we help our communities understand that authentic learning is possible? Three competing visions of educational technology. Related Posts. Which is yours? 3 big shifts.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

While we’ve come a long way from the “grasping at straws” syndrome, educators continue to ponder the worth of many educational technology (edtech) products and struggle with the best and most efficient means of choosing these products. What is this product going to teach the students? When would we use this product?

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EdTech Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Educational Technology 107

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. Fielding encourages teachers to dive into Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a research-based framework that embraces creative solutions while removing learning barriers.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2023

While some of these staff are newer to teaching, most are experienced educators who have come from other schools, bringing their own backgrounds, beliefs and ideas to the table. For as long as I've been teaching, we’ve struggled to make a meaningful dent in our most persistent problems.

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Leadership Cultures Project-Based Learning History 88

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. To learn more, visit DynamicLearningProject.com and fill out the interest form. West Virginia Department of Education. US Department of Education.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Educational Technology Critical Thinking 69

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Before my decade-or-so in education technology, I was a Fortune 500 executive with the responsibility of leading an organization and developing my employees to their greatest potential. And when student agency is fostered, it improves learning for all teaching approaches, including the often tedious skill-building practices.

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Education Project-Based Learning Educational Technology Teaching 59

Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Digital Promise launched a crowdsourcing effort on how companies use scientific research to design and develop their educational technology products. The mathematical content, pedagogy, and scaffolding to the common core is also research-based, led by Dr. Theodore Chao.” ” The science!

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Research Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Educational Technology 91

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Some of the most celebrated education reform efforts today serve to make instruction more difficult. Personalized learning, project-based learning, mastery-based learning – they all require more work of teachers and more work of students. Learning science supports his vision.

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Learning Science Project-Based Learning Humanities Educational Technology 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Mike Baur, program manager for data-driven education at the Dell Foundation, says when it works it should be totally invisible.

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K-12 Project-Based Learning Public School Educational Technology 96

ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Simply having computing devices is not enough if 1:1 initiatives are to help advance teaching and learning.” But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples. But the devices also offer new opportunities for how schools can support learning.

Professional Development 85

Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

When I was 8 years old, my father began teaching me a programming language called BASIC, using an Epson QX10 computer. While many teachers participated on their own, our district’s technology integration specialists also worked alongside many teachers to cultivate an interest in computer science for our students. Boy using a tablet.

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Project-Based Learning Elementary School Educational Technology History 88

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

We have a chance now to make it something that will change teaching and learning forever for the better.”. At the outset of the pandemic, schools nationwide had to make swift and drastic changes in public education to keep students learning. Related: Coronavirus opens doors to rethinking education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. MESA, Ariz. But he doesn’t like it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 75

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions.

High School 110

High School Leadership Public School Charter School 110

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

K-12 142

K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 142

ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

During that time, I got to know my special education students better and more quickly than others because each had an individualized education program (IEP). This informed my teaching from the get-go, while frequent meetings with their parents enriched my insight into their context. Open educational resource curation guide.

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