TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

Active Learning: Learners actively participate in their learning process. Knowledge Construction: Learning is about constructing knowledge rather than just absorbing information. Prior Knowledge: Learners build new knowledge based on existing knowledge. Contextual Learning: Learning is contextual and situational.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Anticipatory set Anticipatory set is used to prepare learners for the lesson or task by setting their minds for instruction or learning. This is achieved by asking a question, adding a relevant context, or making statements to pique interest, create mental images, review information, and initiate the learning process.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For over a century, educational practices have remained largely unchanged, focusing on passive absorption of information and standardized testing. As a result, the transformative power of technology has not been fully realized in enhancing student learning. The crux of the issue lies in our application of technology. in effect size.

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TeachThought

JULY 18, 2024

Delegate responsibilities when possible and use time-saving teaching strategies, such as flipped classrooms or project-based learning. Solicit feedback—formal or informal—from students and colleagues and be open to trying new approaches or techniques. Set aside time each week to reflect on your teaching.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Too often the default in this scenario is to lecture or verbally present information because it is faster. Yet, if we want students to develop these crucial life skills–finding and evaluating information, communicating and collaborating with peers–they need time. They cannot feel they are being hurried through the process of learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These are the very skills and activities that separate people from robots, yet instead of developing them, students are told to act like robots and simply spit back information on exams. While project-based learning may help lift standardized test scores, its real power lies in improving problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2017

They’ve been conditioned to think that “teaching” is a person standing at the front of the room explaining information. They want me to spoon feed them information and I want them to be drivers of learning. This is what makes project-based learning hard for students.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2020

For example, Jessica Bibbs-Fox, a teacher in Compton Unified School District, transformed the COVID-19 pandemic into an authentic, project-based learning experience that integrates computational thinking practices into her virtual middle school science class. Students have to rely on their skills to be successful.”.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

We demonstrate how teachers can leverage universally designed blended learning to position students as active agents in the classroom and create the time and space for these new workflows.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

With help from Hameed, the lead instructor, and several teaching assistants, students learn how to use search engines like Google, how to research and verify information, create presentations online, answer emails in a professional manner and use Google products like Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Drive. Curriculum matters, too.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. We saw an opportunity to use Minecraft Education as a project-based learning tool in computer science, which is how Level Up Los Angeles was born.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Project-based learning has become a popular method of deeply engaging students in assignments they can dig into over the course of several weeks or even months. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. Sometimes kids had trouble finding records.

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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?

Teaching 145

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Pair students learning a language, allow them to practice having conversations, and encourage them to critique their recordings. Extend PBL (project based learning) assignments beyond the classroom so group mates can connect and work asynchronously. Learning' Offer asynchronous office hours.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

To name just a few: A child’s score on a standardized test, combined with other information such as teacher observations and medical referrals, can be used to facilitate access to targeted and critical early intervention education services. Interpret test scores in conjunction with other information about individuals.”

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Reading Integration: Use informational texts, primary sources, and document analysis to enhance comprehension and critical thinking. Writing Integration: Encourage students to document scientific observations, create historical narratives, and develop evidence-based arguments.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Jaunine Fouché, the director of the Agricultural and Environmental Education program, dedicates her days to finding new ways to let students further explore the concepts they learn in their classes with projects that have real-world impact and relevance. Agriculture-related projects aren’t the only ones Milton Hershey students work on.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. As we exchange information, that's also going both ways, right. It's an opportunity for us.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

That’s why GreatSchools , the nonprofit school information site that helps parents navigate education, partnered with Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a nonprofit organization that encourages STEM-based careers for students through hands-on, project-based learning starting in pre-K.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

From a UDL perspective, student agency also creates opportunities for diverse groups of learners to decide how they want to learn, engage with information, or demonstrate their learning. #8 8 Projects can turn the world into our curriculum. She said, “The world is our curriculum.

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Digital Promise

JULY 21, 2020

Each snapshot provides: Relevant information on the initiative’s vision, implementation, and future direction. Detailed information on the curriculum integration, partnerships, professional learning, and support structures needed for the initiative’s success. “Our Career and Workforce Development. Learner Agency and Supports.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

UTeach Computer Science provides classroom-ready high school computer science curricula and teacher professional development to foster computational thinking and engage all students through hands-on project-based learning. Delaware Department of Education. Denotes a privately hosted micro-credential stack.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Through meaningful and growing relationships with industry partners, health centers, local universities, and recruitment hubs, the staff at Mentor stays informed on the best ways to prepare students for their futures. are designing project-based learning units collaboratively.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2017

Here’s the new list (now 10 items instead of 8): Project- and inquiry-based learning environments that emphasize greater student agency and active application of more cognitively-complex thinking, communication, and collaboration skills.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

By highlighting examples of research-based product development, we aim to help all stakeholders use scientific and user research to improve student outcomes and better understand learners. Below you can see the responses that best highlight what we’ve learned from ed-tech developers so far. How do you use research?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Project-Based Learning (PBL) : In a PBL environment, must-do stations could be essential steps in the project process, such as research or prototype development, while may-do stations offer optional skills workshops or resources for deepening project work, like using organizational project management tools or conducting interviews.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

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. Professors all over the country have been sharing tips on making their online educational environments as interactive and potent as possible.

Education 125

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. and “How do I find the contact information of those in positions of power?” To what end? But there are forces that get in the way.

American History 134

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

“The brain already comes with hardware … and that means culture [is] software that helps organize all the new information we take and store in our brains.”. A teacher’s role is not to install more learning software, but to leverage what’s already there to help students’ brains take in more information.

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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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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

This blog post is the first in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. Maker learning is more than just making “stuff.” Want to bring maker learning to your school?

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

They are going beyond the required material to seek out more information on what interests them. Let’s embrace this newfound agency this fall, while still supporting those who are building their independent learning skills. Students are sharing what they need in order to be successful.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

Even before meeting them, I had information that helped me understand some of their motivations, personal preferences and interests. This informed my teaching from the get-go, while frequent meetings with their parents enriched my insight into their context. Recommended Resources. Supporting student success in Alberta, Canada.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2017

That said, as I work with educators around the world, I see future-oriented schools playing around with some, or all, of these building blocks: Project- and inquiry-based learning environments. Competency-based education and standards-based grading. Digital and online (and often open access) information resources.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnsrud: Educators can stay informed about future workforce trends, including emerging jobs and highly sought-after skills. 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.

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