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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective? Students start by forming a psychological hypothesis about a character for example, Is Hamlet experiencing depression? and then research psychological theories while reading and analyzing the text.

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Human Meets AI: Helping Educators Navigate Their Emotions About Technological Change

ED Surge

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology.

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How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

Pedagogy 267
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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. Your opinion on this is likely to fall into one of several camps: Maybe you see this as a reflection of society’s growing acceptance of gender fluidity.

Pedagogy 250
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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

The low success rate for new ideas is “psychologically disappointing,” said Barbara Goodson, lead author of the report and an expert in educational research at the consulting firm Abt Global. WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices. Source: IES , February 2024.

Tutoring 143
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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development. In the U.S.

Education 142
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OPINION: How can we prevent a generation of pandemic-isolated misfits?

The Hechinger Report

People need people — and children need human interaction even more than adults do. So what happens to young children when “stranger danger” becomes a health mandate, schools and libraries close and anxious parents desperately try to juggle work-life balance?

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