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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

Various digital learning tools can help students develop social and emotional competencies such as self-awareness, social awareness, and responsible decision-making. For example, in GlassLab’s Mars Generation One : Argubot Academy EDU, students must make decisions about building and governing a city on Mars.

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The Power of Networks in Education Innovation

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Education networks will continue to leverage the best of learning science, digital tools, community wisdom, partnerships, and student voice to not just improve learning but redefine it. Reimagining learning. Reengaging the role of government. EdClusters can either disrupt or perpetuate those equity gaps.

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Report gives colleges a roadmap for high-quality online education after the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

The authors urge the federal government to ensure affordable, quality, reliable internet service for all college students by expanding a pandemic program that gave stipends to qualifying families. And the report says the federal government should create a grant program to get devices to students who need them.

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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report

6th grade science. Government and Politics curriculum. Environmental Science Curriculum. Project-based learning, a popular practice that uses lots of poster boards and student presentations, is billed as an antidote to boring classrooms where teachers drone on. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Curriculum.

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Ed-tech Developers: Share How You Use Research

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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 next generation of science education means more doing

The Hechinger Report

This type of project reflects the best intentions of the Next Generation Science Standards , which encourage teachers to enable students to learn science by doing.

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Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

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As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. What is equitable evaluation? The post Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research appeared first on Digital Promise.