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. Carnegie Learning was way ahead of its time with that early version of AI. And grow, they have.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. In addition, a CT “Look for” document might be particularly helpful to administrators since defining CT has been an ongoing challenge for school districts.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh grade math in New York City public schools when she noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. While it is clear that grit matters for success in school and in life, little is known about how best to foster grit in students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A study on teaching critical thinking in science. In a study of middle school science classrooms, researchers found that it’s not effective to start the school year with weeks of lessons on the scientific method, which many teachers do. Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

All of this creates space for students to find the approaches that are most effective for them and engage in active learning. Hear from Dr. Gerardo Ramirez on How to Help Students Build Positive Mindsets Around Math.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

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. Putting Learning Science Research to Work. Can Students Create VR? Short Answer: Yes!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This type of project reflects the best intentions of the Next Generation Science Standards , which encourage teachers to enable students to learn science by doing. A former middle school science teacher herself, Roberts said the standards create much-needed continuity across grades and science disciplines.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language. At the middle school level, they tested the mobile apps students were piloting using App-Inventor and dropped in to one of the country’s first-ever middle school cybersecurity courses.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

over the past few decades have not necessarily been well prepared to teach kids reading in ways that are aligned with the scientific evidence base,” said Heidi Beverine-Curry, chief academic officer at The Reading League, a nonprofit organization that promotes the science of reading. “It’s

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Malkin: Carnegie Learning originated at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the most respected research universities in the country, known for its work in education and cognitive science. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 22, 2019

In the context of our National Science Foundation-funded Playful Assessment project, we’ve found the music industry provides a wonderfully realistic, relevant, and meaningful context for middle school students. How teachers can use the music industry to engage students with data.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2023

Michael Crow, president of Arizona State, said the technology creates a memory of learning that isn’t associated with a rigid, structured way of learning science. “We They took place in regular reality, in a tiny middle school in Southern Oregon where, at dissection time, the entire hallway reeked of formaldehyde.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2017

Most middle school students learn science in 50-minute blocks inside a classroom, memorizing formulas and theories that describe ecosystems. With these disparities, how can middle school students envision what it’s like to be an ecosystem scientist?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

As a computer scientist and a former middle-school math teacher, I believe strongly that we can marry the promise of new technology and evidence-based instructional practices to address inequities in our public school system. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And that sparked her interest in digging into learning science research that she’s gathered into a recent book, “ The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.” And so embodied cognition suggests that this head-first or brain-bound approach to learning is really misguided.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Amid STEM Enthusiasm, Stepping Back to Consider the Broader Purpose of Teaching and Learning Science. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But how does this connect to science education? Collaborative Search for Truth .

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

The moment a teacher opens the door to their classroom at the beginning of a new school year, if they understand learner variability, they will see a design challenge, not a student challenge. Learning Sciences and Edtech: Uncovering the Facts. Empowering Educator Voice through Edtech Pilots.

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2018

With EcoXPT — now being tested in classrooms (see a video from a pilot site below), and available to educators perhaps as early as the fall of 2018 — middle school students use a virtual reality program to investigate why all the large fish in a virtual pond have died. The EcoXPT Experience.

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