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Collaborative Learning in the Age of Social-Distancing

Digital Promise

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? The post Collaborative Learning in the Age of Social-Distancing appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Three Ideas to Find Edtech that Will Transform the Future of Learning

Digital Promise

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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Remaking the Future of Learning, One Community at a Time

Digital Promise

Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between. Some events might also offer professional development for educators attending.

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

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Sometimes the technology, and the way kids explore and build things with it, is integral to what kids need to learn. This year, for example, students have been working in Seattle public libraries with University of Washington professor Jason Yip to build tools and games intended to help other kids identify and avoid disinformation.

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2019 SXSW EDU PanelPicker!

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Learning Sciences and Edtech: Uncovering the Facts. Have you ever heard a new research study that contradicts the study you learned about just last month? Have you ever read conclusions of a study and after all of the cautions, you have no idea if anything was learned at all? Libraries as Maker Magnets.

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Partnerships that Work: Tapping Research to Address Learner Variability in Young Readers

Digital Promise

At the same time, a growing field of learning sciences research offers more precise knowledge of how learners learn. In our latest report , we chronicle LPS’s partnership with ReadWorks , a nonprofit that leverages learning sciences research in support of its mission to help address gaps in students’ reading achievement.

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A new partnership paves the way for greater use of AI in higher ed

The Hechinger Report

Lo, the dean of the college of university library and learning sciences at the University of New Mexico and an advocate for AI literacy in higher education, called the partnership a forward-thinking move.

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