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What is Learning Sciences and Why Does It Matter?

Digital Promise

Learning sciences research investigates the process of learning in realistic settings, which can include schools, museums, after-school programs, home environments, or anywhere people typically learn. We are passionate about creating equitable learning and building research-practice partnerships.

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Partnering for Effective Learning Sciences Research

Digital Promise

How do you conduct learning sciences research that promotes more practical, equitable, and scalable improvements in education? This question drives Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Research (LSR) team. Including both leadership and front-line implementers helps ensure buy-in and scaling.

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The Power of Networks in Education Innovation

Digital Promise

Leadership must be local. It requires listening to community, acknowledging harm, and making changes—across partnerships, leadership, culture, funding, and programming. Being intentional about equity has anchored much of our learning. Reimagining learning. Establish responsive, reflective infrastructure.

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Retrieval practice, CBE, and what we value regarding student learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. Are our school systems focusing on big important concepts or just trivia and minutiae as they engage in learning science and competency-based educational practices?

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OPINION: It’s not just about tech and anxiety. What are kids learning?

The Hechinger Report

This story about teens and technology was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

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. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Maker Learning and School Leadership.

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.