The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2024
Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. That’s hard. Sign up for the Proof Points newsletter.
Digital Promise
APRIL 30, 2019
Drawing from both learning sciences research and feedback from educators, we developed this framework to support teachers in identifying where their students can leverage computational thinking. Be the first to know when new computational thinking resources are released by subscribing to the Digital Promise Action Report.
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Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Fortunately, there are many valuable resources available to teachers interested in going deep into this work, including: Understand the ways your students’ learning might vary. There are tons of resources about learning sciences.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 8, 2021
But it’s an open question whether students can learn every subject this way. Each concluded that students who learned science and social studies through a detailed project-based curriculum over the course of a year posted higher achievement scores than those who learned those subjects the way teachers in their schools usually taught them.
ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2023
Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 27, 2019
Ask about the learning sciences research used to design and build edtech products. Think about asking some of the following questions when evaluating the research behind an edtech product: What learning sciences research did you use to design your product? How has your product attended to diverse learners’ needs?
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 2, 2023
The sessions received funding through a $25 million National Science Foundation grant to Columbia University. The teachers participating committed to creating lesson plans — like the shade simulation — that will be made available freely for others to use on platforms including the website SubjectToClimate.org.
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