Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The second installment in Digital Promise Global’s Making Learning Personal For All series, “ Research and The Promise of Personalized Learning ” explores advances in the learning sciences that underscore key Learner Factors that must be considered in order to better support students based on their unique learning needs.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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ED Surge

MAY 27, 2022

As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice. Click each image to see the excerpts and videos.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Over the past three years, Digital Promise has engaged educators, districts, students, and product developers in conversations to identify a crucial signal of edtech excellence: a design basis in learning sciences research. Dr. KP Thai Director, Learning Sciences and Analytics, Age of Learning, Inc.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

Malkin Carnegie Learning CEO "At the root of everything we do is the goal of supporting students, teachers and leaders in raising student achievement using learning science — and AI," explains Malkin. The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. And grow, they have.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

South from his peers was his passion for helping students learn and love the sciences. He didn’t teach science. We learned science. He is the main reason I pursued a degree in science initially, before taking this passion to the field of education. All of his classes were amazing.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2020

Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Research team is experiencing what many educational researchers are familiar with by now—an untimely intrusion by the COVID-19 pandemic that compromises data collection at the end of the school year. How can educational researchers ensure continued data collection in the wake of COVID-19?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2020

As schools rapidly shift instruction to a learn-from-home situation, we’re thinking about how to integrate core learning sciences principles in this new context: What do we know improves learning? How can we implement these strategies with students at home?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

Report: AI and the Future of Learning: Expert Panel Report. Sign up for the Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences (CIRCLS) newsletter to stay updated on emerging technologies for teaching and learning. Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A nonprofit organization, Deans for Impact, is working with them toward this goal, and as part of this effort, it administered a test to more than 1,000 teaching students at these six schools in the fall of 2019 to see how much learning science the teacher candidates understood. Future of Learning. Choose from our newsletters.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

When edtech tools incorporate research about learning from the start, learners are the center of product design. These types of tools ground their solution in learning sciences to meet the realities that learners face. The ISTE Seal of Alignment recognizes products that align to the ISTE Standards.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2022

These include the League of Innovative Schools , Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , the Center for Inclusive Innovation , the Learner Variability Project , a robust ecosystem of micro-credentials and educational technology product certifications , and a team of the top learning sciences researchers in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

In partnership with Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative, the nonprofit Remake Learning, where I serve as executive director, is granting $1.5 Hillman foundations, will be guided by 10 local advisers with years of experience in play theory, learning science and urban design. The work, which is supported by the Grable and Henry L.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , which compiled the information on minutes spent learning science, only 17 percent of early elementary classes had science lessons most days of the week. “We Such efforts can only improve current practices.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2023

Senior Director of Learning Design (Essentials) BrainPOP Product Development Alignment With Learning Science For edtech vendors, the revised ISTE Seal has prompted a positive response. So I think once the Teacher Ready digital framework is available, we will probably revamp our instructional review procedures.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2021

They will also upgrade online learning environments, expand credentialing, and integrate virtual reality (VR) learning experiences for workers, including dislocated workers, incumbent workers, and new entrants to the workforce. Tennessee State University’s (TSU) Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

ELW : I’m glad you brought up the need to connect technology with learning sciences research, since we often talk about how Digital Promise works at the intersection of educators, researchers, and developers. Digital Promise President and CEO @BrizardJC sat down to share his thoughts: [link] pic.twitter.com/XEELxIqzrS.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

All these ideas are established learning science. Related: Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds One of the first principal syntheses of these findings with clear recommendations for the classroom was a 2007 federal report, “ Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning.”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Education networks will continue to leverage the best of learning science, digital tools, community wisdom, partnerships, and student voice to not just improve learning but redefine it. Reimagining learning. EdClusters can either disrupt or perpetuate those equity gaps. Responsive collaborations.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. The story was part of a series on learning engineering and learning science. Thanks for reading, and happy new year.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

We hope to equip participants with techniques that will positively impact student learning, eliminate opportunity gaps, and make it so social determinants no longer reliably predict student outcomes. Stay tuned for more lessons from this course by subscribing to the Learning Sciences Connections newsletter.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

And to learn more about our current research conversations, subscribe to Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Connections newsletter to read stories that share useful findings from the field. The post How to Build Students’ Multiplicative Reasoning Skills appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

What has changed, however, is the need and increased capacity to personalize learning, including: A workforce that demands significantly more than mastery of the 3 Rs; 2. The burgeoning field of learning sciences research that addresses learner variability 4 ; and.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Today, learning sciences research has discovered more about how people learn than we have ever known—and much of this research demonstrates that people learn differently. By recognizing exemplars, the campaign aimed to inspire other developers to use research to create high-quality learning products.

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Dr. Preece

MAY 31, 2024

Some of the data and facts are a strong reminder that we need to be able to do more – and this is an area of my own teaching that was not as good as it should have been!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Maybe adding this new piece could even help adults see more than just an “anxious generation” but also one hungry to learn.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 28, 2022

The institutions include Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative , Savannah Technical College/Technical College System of Georgia , Tennessee State University’s Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences , and the University of Maine System’s Statewide All Learning Counts Initiative.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

As such, it should come as no surprise that, upon learning about Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative , she jumped at the chance to enroll a cohort of her colleagues. Here, she discusses her experience in the course and shares some key takeaways that she hopes will improve learning outcomes in her district.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That doesn’t mean we should jettison the songs or all the other memorization methods just because some aren’t as effective as others.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Yet, if there is one takeaway from the burgeoning learning sciences research, it is that no two of us learn in exactly the same way. Yet, the whole group, teacher-led lesson is not flexible enough to honor learner variability or the diversity of needs in classrooms.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2021

Digital Promise Product Certifications are credible and independent verifications that a product’s design is based on research about learning. The Product Certification offers a competitive advantage.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Consider an analogy to sports training, where science is making athletes better by shaping more effective practice sessions. As in sports, learning sciences research has uncovered much about the optimal way to organize and support mathematics practice.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

To increase the preparedness and compensation of ECE teachers, The Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences at TSU coordinated with Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance (TECTA) and its early head start programs to launch ClearPath ECE.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

After creating and implementing challenge based science lessons, teachers commonly recognized the importance of allowing for student discovery. Inviting students to solve challenges can engage them to learn science in deeper, more personal ways. It was neat to see what they came up with.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Passionate about the intentional integration of technology, she views the role as essential to amplifying learning and a key element in her district’s five-year plan to increase the overall graduation rate from 60 percent to 75. Here, she explains how Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative factors into that ambitious plan.

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