Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Lessons learned include: Network weaving activities are essential. Stewarding an inclusive network requires time, money, and human capital. 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.

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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.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Drawing from both learning sciences research and feedback from educators, we developed this framework to support teachers in identifying where their students can leverage computational thinking. Integrating computational thinking is not just another add-on, but can be a true value-add for teachers in any subject area.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Researchers at the Digital Promise-led Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences ( CIRCLS ) believe that over the next five to 10 years, AI in the education space will see a significant growth. Start from what is good teaching and learning,” Roschelle said. And not “from what AI can do for me.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Such efforts can only improve current practices.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

But research published since Duckworth’s TED Talk—and Digital Promise’s own research in the learning sciences—show that a number of factors influence student learning. There are many factors that influence student learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

Every day across the nation, students walk into schools with backpacks full of diverse experiences that impact how they behave and learn. At the same time, advancements in learning sciences paint a more dynamic and optimistic picture of human development than has ever existed before.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. So the more we can bring the body into learning, the better. But human brains are not like that.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. “At its core, mathematics is problem solving, and solving problems involves uncertainty and struggle at times,” said Dr. Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Anita S. and Antonio M.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

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. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

He is currently the head of assessment and learning sciences at Roblox, an online gaming company. Each hand-written essay is read by two human graders and given a numerical mark in each of three categories, for a total of six marks per essay. The College Board charges only $16 more for the optional essay portion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lo, the dean of the college of university library and learning sciences at the University of New Mexico and an advocate for AI literacy in higher education, called the partnership a forward-thinking move.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

When students have autonomy in asking guiding questions as part of their learning, inquiry can also amplify student engagement and empowerment. Learning sciences research shows that the ways in which reflection is designed, including when it is practiced, can support memory. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(4), 352–364.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Based on SPICE research and design work, the SPICE team has articulated a framework (Figure 3) that can guide curriculum designers in coherently integrating science, engineering, and computational modeling in K-12 instruction: The investigation is framed around an engineering design challenge (e.g., human impacts on the environment).

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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. Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

If we don’t offer educators the opportunity to rethink their intellectual ideas — about climate change, science, inequality — it makes it really difficult to do this work.” Kids come in with, ‘Humans harm the earth and the earth is dying,’” she said. Related: Climate change: Are we ready? That doesn’t motivate action or change.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

What the Maps in Our Brain Tell Us About the Learning Process. To fit all the billions of neurons in the human brain into our heads, they're organized so that brain regions are carefully mapped to things like vision and hearing. Louis, and author of the new book, “Brainscapes.” How to Continuously Improve Teaching.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The” what” and” why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Motivating children to learn effectively: Exploring the value of intrinsic integration in educational games.The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 20(2), 169-206. References. L., & Ryan, R. Boggiano, A.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The hope is that by partnering with the government, we can bring the latest learning science, the best content and the best technology to every worker and parent who is associated with early childhood development. We share similar small activities with parents and invite them to share with their communities.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Unlike computer science (which exists as a stand-alone discipline) and coding (which exists as a discrete skill), computational thinking is intended to be integrative in nature.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

In many universities, humanities requirements exist in engineering schools and department, but are fairly modest. At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. “A well-crafted research paper wastes no words — like a poem.”. The post An Ode To STEM?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

What we now know in learning science is that learning is complex, often unpredictable, and a socially developed phenomenon.”. If we want schools to support human development and learning, Wilson says, we need to begin to question some of what we’ve inherited.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Researchers discussed their role as partners shaping the future of learning science. Additional research breakout sessions look at “Networks and the Future of Learning Science” and “EdTech Efficacy Research, Pilots, and Rapid Cycle Evaluations.”. What if we created a human library?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Wilson wants to learn science-specific vocabulary and have Spanish skills “to communicate across barriers.” Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

It’s a hard thing to measure, but learning science suggests that this is the case.”. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Related: It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Katrina Stevens, Director of Learning Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, also shared a vision for how mature EdClusters can collaboratively design, evaluate, and scale promising tools and practices. Kim Smith details a re-calibrated vision for #edclusters and League of Innovative Schools. REPORTS FROM THE FIELD.

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Jonathan Firth

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Other studies have found widespread support for myths about learning, even among highly educated people. A couple of years ago I conducted a study which presented a set of statements about learning and memory to teachers; some statements fit with contemporary learning science and others did not.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

The new AI-generated prompts may also help children, but not as much as reading with a skilled human adult, such as a teacher, parent or tutor — and they should not be used to replace that experience. 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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It literally speaks to my soul, not only because it acknowledges my humanity but also in the way it pays homage to the intersections of Black and Queer artistry. We design environments for and with young people where human learning occurs in complex ways across identity, sociopolitical realities and lived experiences.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

And there are thorny and unresolved ethical issues around how much and in what instances it's appropriate to have a bot perform tasks that were once thought only things that humans could or should do. 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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