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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Solving Challenges for Deeper Learning in Science

Digital Promise

In traditional science classrooms, students are often presented with facts and definitions to memorize, or they are asked to follow a predetermined set of instructions to complete a lab activity. However, this model of instruction does not align with our emerging understanding of how students learn science best.

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How Belonging and Productive Struggle Can Motivate Students in Math

Digital Promise

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. All of this creates space for students to find the approaches that are most effective for them and engage in active learning.

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

The Hechinger Report

That’s because many high school teachers finish their training without lessons on how to teach reading, since, traditionally, explicit instruction on reading skills ends around third grade. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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My trip to the Alien Zoo: a virtual Biology 101 class

The Hechinger Report

Replacing traditional labs, this new technology from Dreamscape Learn is used to reinforce the foundational life science concepts they are learning in the classroom. times more likely to earn an A in the class than those enrolled in the traditional model. I was shocked by how bearable the virtual dissection was.

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