The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Others say learning facts is unimportant in the age of Google where we can instantly look anything up, and that the focus should be on teaching skills.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

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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Learning Science Museum Sociology Psychology 118

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. Kim thinks that a knowledge-building curriculum doesn’t need to teach many topics.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

Not to say that the promise was always to teach all kids—the system was designed to do exactly what it’s doing right now. ELW : I’m glad you brought up the need to connect technology with learning sciences research, since we often talk about how Digital Promise works at the intersection of educators, researchers, and developers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Maybe you have also been surprised to find out that cognitive scientists actually know quite a bit about how we learn. Over the last several years, many of us have had the uncomfortable realization that there is a gap between how we teach and how scientific findings suggest we should teach. Brown, Henry L.

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Middle School Psychology Classroom Management Learning Science 145

Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

This is the fourth post in our series on “Powerful Learning,” a set of principles guiding our work supporting schools and educators to develop learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners as we introduce new technologies. Powerful learning must be inquisitive and reflective. Recall supports memory 2.

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Psychology Learning Science Teaching Humanities 105

Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

For example, many math lessons focus on teaching the one correct path to reach the one right answer to a problem. Incorporate Productive Struggle and a Sense of Belonging to Improve Math Learning. How can educators transform their approach and teach math in a way that effectively addresses learner variability ? and Antonio M.

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