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What is Learning Sciences and Why Does It Matter?

Digital Promise

Learning sciences research investigates the process of learning in realistic settings, which can include schools, museums, after-school programs, home environments, or anywhere people typically learn. We are passionate about creating equitable learning and building research-practice partnerships.

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

The Hechinger Report

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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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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Don’t Return to Your School’s Pre-Pandemic Schedule. Improve It Through Brain Science.

ED Surge

No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. Teachers use that to their advantage by beginning the next class with some retrieval practice and interleaving , learning science strategies that can boost knowledge retention. “Don’t go back!”

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Challenges Facing Edtech Procurement and Possible Solutions: Part 2

Digital Promise

As end-users search for new tools to fit students needs, these resources, as well as more traditional methods like word-of-mouth recommendations, internet searches, research journals, and edtech vendor exhibitions at conferences, can provide channels for product discovery. Evaluate the Product to Ensure It Meets Your Students’ Needs.

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Why This Mid-Sized North Carolina District Is Rethinking Its Approach to Edtech Procurement

ED Surge

Here, she explains how Course of Mind is helping her district strategically incorporate learning technology into their curriculum. EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ? You gain such valuable information and insight that you don't get through a traditional education program.

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