Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As technology becomes a bigger part of teaching and learning, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are likely to encounter AI more frequently in our schools. AI systems can be defined as software or machines that are able to perform tasks we typically associate with humans. At times their performance can resemble humans.

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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. And not “from what AI can do for me.”

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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. Schools that get an outdoor learning lab also get coaching on teaching science in the lab.

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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. 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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s a global initiative, with China launching a new educational Center , and Korean mathematics educators evaluating the practices for teaching mathematics in Korea. In many universities, humanities requirements exist in engineering schools and department, but are fairly modest. The post An Ode To STEM?

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh grade math in New York City public schools when she noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. There are many factors that influence student learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

For example, many math lessons focus on teaching the one correct path to reach the one right answer to a problem. Incorporate Productive Struggle and a Sense of Belonging to Improve Math Learning. How can educators transform their approach and teach math in a way that effectively addresses learner variability ? and Antonio M.

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

This is the fourth post in our series on “Powerful Learning,” a set of principles guiding our work supporting schools and educators to develop learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners as we introduce new technologies. Powerful learning must be inquisitive and reflective. Recall supports memory 2.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This experience teaches students how to use CT concepts and skills to solve an engineering design problem. The problem solution must be informed by a science phenomenon (e.g., water runoff) aligned with science learning goals for the unit (e.g., human impacts on the environment).

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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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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. What are the biases of the trained models and the information they put out?

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This question structured the two-day event at South Fayette School District (SFSD) , which has a nationally recognized program for teaching computer science and computational thinking. How do you integrate computational thinking in the classroom?

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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. Learn more about Pedagogy of Play.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Our Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) network connects local ecosystems around the country that bring together educators, researchers, entrepreneurs, funders, and other community stakeholders to support transformative teaching and learning. Researchers discussed their role as partners shaping the future of learning science.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

EdClusters18 brought together nearly 100 leaders from more than 20 regions and 48 organizations across the country working to advance future-facing teaching and learning. Learn more about the conversation in this EdWeek article. Personalized learning implementation. See the full agenda here.) REPORTS FROM THE FIELD.

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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. But her research hasn’t shown that they teach self-management and persistence. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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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. How to Continuously Improve Teaching. The Long and Surprising History of ‘Teaching Machines’.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

. — Danilo Moreta, a Cornell University graduate student studying corn breeding, stood wearing jeans and a black button-down shirt as undergraduate students entered room 336 in the Plant Science Building for a Tuesday night section of PLSCI 4300, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. Moreta teaches the science section in Spanish.

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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? 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.

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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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