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MAY 11, 2020

Then, recognizing that every learner brings a unique set of skills, talents, interests and needs to their education, we must give educators and students the tools to build unique learning pathways that develop the learner’s academic, human and technical skills.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: A team of U.K. Related: A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. For that biomedical project, students had to create a probe and learn to maneuver it sight unseen from behind a curtain on the box’s opening to procure a sample from the intestine/bike tire.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

The students do this through nine-week long, interdisciplinary projects that the Finnish call “phenomenon-based learning,” a term coined by the country’s National Agency for Education. Phenomenon-based learning is a lot like project-based learning, a more familiar term in the United States.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 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. Personalized learning, project-based learning, mastery-based learning – they all require more work of teachers and more work of students.

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APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I’ve been particularly impressed by suggestions that lead to more active learning (or project-based learning) among students who are scattered across great distances.

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MAY 23, 2018

A member of the nonprofit New Tech Network , the school showed me a different approach in classrooms, whereby teachers connected students with their learning in profound new ways. At the heart of the approach: project-based learning for all academic subjects. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

In addition, adding in superficial elements of culture, such as food and music, may help to motivate students but doesn’t get to the deeper cognitive level of learning. Zaretta clarified, “Social learning is having kids do hard things as a result of being in a group and talking, project-based learning, maker education integrated arts, etc.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

Project-based learning, in which students embark on long research or art projects, science experiments or even writing books , is one of the hottest trends in high school reform. who attempt to replicate its project-based model. “I Each student had chosen a disease to research.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning. didn’t.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: “Wanting students to be able to ‘analyse, synthesise and evaluate’ information sounds like a reasonable goal,” writes Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

“These studies are important because they tell us that teacher-student relationships matter,” said Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is writing a book on the research about students’ relationships with their teachers and how well they learn. ”I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

We’ve also invested in bringing coding to life through project-based learning using Wonder Workshop’s educational robots, Dash and Dot. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Experiences and progress will be shared through social media. Sign up for our newsletter.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Instead, in accordance with state law, admission was based on a lottery. The schools shared other traits, such as support for underrepresented students, early college-level courses, project-based learning and partnerships in the field.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Decades of research, both about educational best practice and the way the human brain works, say these types of motivators are dangerous. Offering students rewards for learning creates reliance on the reward. The teacher demands, the grades, the promise of additional opportunities – they’re all external rewards.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Our new learning design and schedule allow us to differentiate and accelerate instruction, offer new learning opportunities in both STEM subjects and the humanities, and increase the amount of time available for teacher planning and professional development.

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