TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

Policies vs Children There is so much to do and plan and prepare and create spaces for that there is very little left for human conversations about the teacher and about the student. Delegate responsibilities when possible and use time-saving teaching strategies, such as flipped classrooms or project-based learning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

My colleague Chad sees those opportunities through an edu-entrepreneurial lens, always looking at what learning need isn’t being met and how to shape a response to the human needs inside our schools; in doing so, it shifts power from teacher to learners.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

“I’ve had conversations with over 100 community organizations and individuals who reached out to us or are in our community and network who found out about Maritime High School and are excited about being involved, which is critical for project-based learning,” added Stephanie Burns, program director at Maritime High School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2023

Project-based learning is trendy. Advocates of project-based learning once tried to develop a curriculum to teach math, but backed off when they struggled to come up with good projects for teaching abstract math concepts and skills. What is the best way to teach?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide more individualized support and feedback. 1 Learning from Another Perspective.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

So, for example, understanding the role of the human heart in the body is not just about being able to label where the human heart is on a diagram or being able to spit out a definition. “So it’s not just creativity in the sense of like the arts, but it’s more like, okay, you know something about the human heart. .”

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Many teachers have been practicing blended and online learning for years. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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 14, 2018

Teachers cited active learning, problem solving and classroom discussions (51 percent), project-based learning (45 percent) and personalized learning (40 percent) as “very important” strategies for helping students develop workplace skills. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. 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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These mental health challenges are not pathological, but considered to be normal human responses to a rapidly changing world. Another study confirms the finding that depression, general and severe anxiety and “extreme emotions such as sadness, anger and fear” are all mental health outcomes associated with eco-anxiety.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It’s also important to equip them with professional-quality templates and assets so that the projects they’re creating actually look like professional outputs. Pedagogically, this approach is real-world, authentic, project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

These are skills and traits that are often associated with social intelligence, which the British neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey has averred is what fundamentally makes us human. Their applied projects are typically shaped by human factors that require careful cultivation of soft skills to be effective.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: “They don’t really understand that I don’t want to use Instagram for the classroom,” Brandon said. He has gone on to create a platform called Be Anything to support project-based learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Unsurprisingly, the United Nations asserts that quality education is not only a fundamental human right but also a crucial catalyst for economic growth and development. Harnessing its learnings from KA Lite, the organization has evolved and expanded its impact by developing an ecosystem of open products and tools called Kolibri.

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Edthena

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: That’s the mindset Mote wants all school districts to take on. She argues interoperability will give schools the opportunity to take full advantage of the promise of “everything from project-based learning to personalized learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

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

AUGUST 16, 2021

Scientists have long known that the human brain develops more rapidly between birth and the age of 3 than at any other time in life. Related: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning. Deutsche, the director of Youth-Nex: The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. The Adolescent Brain.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

There are a number of teaching methods developed with this idea in mind, such as project-based learning , which centers on students building skills through working on an engaging project with purpose, and inquiry-based learning , which allows students to develop their own questions and curiosities about content.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

I also shared that the research on motivation and engagement from Deci & Ryan, Hallie, and others shows quite clearly that autonomy and self-direction are fundamental human needs that we violate to the detriment of both our students and our proclaimed academic goals. 5 great slides about technology, learning, and change.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence). Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai Next, students examined the apps themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

The figure for students in humanities and natural sciences is even higher, up to 50 percent. In the 1960s, practical and project-based learning was common in Danish schools, Hutters said. Credit: Patricia Kühfuss for The Hechinger Report All this has led more students to choose to attend university.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

The Flaws of Exam-Centric Assessment Relying heavily on exams overlooks the complexities of human learning and the various external factors that impact a student’s performance. Focusing on the Process of Learning Instead of hinging student success on a single exam, we should focus on the process of learning itself.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

For US History, that can be reading (or even listening to) this short article on the stock market crash of 1929 and then organizing the important parts of the article into their interactive notebook: This allows students to be hands on with their learning and easily combine a digital resource with a paper/pencil activity.

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