The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. Many are unaware that teaching online can actually open new possibilities to innovate their teaching practice.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For the past couple of years every day is treated as Digital Learning Day as we have moved to create a teaching and learning culture rich in authentic activities where students are engaged and take ownership of their learning. This certainly was not the case for us at NMHS. Why might you ask? The answer is simple.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unlike the recent surge of evidence on science-based reading instruction, research and emphasis on number sense isnt making its way into schools and classrooms in the same way. Our understanding has drastically grown in the last 20, 25 years about effective instructional approaches to help students learn number sense, said Clarke.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 22, 2012

I am extremely excited that my second book is now available through Solution Tree entitled What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science. It was a great deal of fun co-authoring this book with Keith Devereaux , one of my Science teachers at New Milford High School.

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ED Surge

MAY 27, 2022

Matt Gibson spends a lot of his time thinking about how people learn. As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2020

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? How can they effectively promote collaborative learning in today’s socially distanced teaching environment?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Teaching kids abstract critical thinking skills is unlikely to help them think critically. Teachers ought to be learning more about what the last 50 years of rigorous, well-designed research has uncovered, confirmed or refuted when they start their profession. The length of lectures often exceeds children’s attention spans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. In Powerful Teaching , the authors focus on the potential of: Retrieval practice – “pulling information out of students’ heads (e.g., lectures)” (p.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

Report: AI and the Future of Learning: Expert Panel Report. Sign up for the Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences (CIRCLS) newsletter to stay updated on emerging technologies for teaching and learning. Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It is quite common to teach multiplication through repeated addition such as 2+2+2+2+2=10 to learn 2×5=10. However, this way of teaching is only part of what multiplicative thinking involves. Advancing Multiplicative Reasoning for Future Learning.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Researchers at the Digital Promise-led Center for Integrative Research in Computing and Learning Sciences ( CIRCLS ) believe that over the next five to 10 years, AI in the education space will see a significant growth. Start from what is good teaching and learning. And not “from what AI can do for me.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s a global initiative, with China launching a new educational Center , and Korean mathematics educators evaluating the practices for teaching mathematics in Korea. Dr. Uri Wilensky is a professor of Learning Sciences, Computer Science and Complex Systems at Northwestern University. The post An Ode To STEM?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. Flipped Learning Can Be a Key to Transforming Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic. Top 10 Countdown 10. It Depends.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

I believe solid curriculum, solid teaching and assessments are what we really need to be focusing on.” As such, it should come as no surprise that, upon learning about Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative , she jumped at the chance to enroll a cohort of her colleagues. Learning is about absorbing knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , which compiled the information on minutes spent learning science, only 17 percent of early elementary classes had science lessons most days of the week. “We The hope is these lessons will also spark students’ interest in science at a young age.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Yet, if there is one takeaway from the burgeoning learning sciences research, it is that no two of us learn in exactly the same way. Taking Stock of Current Teaching Practices I encourage educators to question the prevailing reliance on whole-group, teacher-led instructional design.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2018

“We cannot teach students well if we do not know them well. At its heart, personalized learning requires profound shifts in our thinking about education and schooling.” Personalized learning is not a new concept. The burgeoning field of learning sciences research that addresses learner variability 4 ; and.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Passionate about the intentional integration of technology, she views the role as essential to amplifying learning and a key element in her district’s five-year plan to increase the overall graduation rate from 60 percent to 75. Here, she explains how Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative factors into that ambitious plan.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

To collaboratively interpret these data and implement changes to improve equity, leaders might include the voices of students without consistent access to webcams, professor(s) involved in teaching the course, and other individuals involved in course planning.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

There are tons of resources about learning sciences. For example, the Learner Variability Project connects learning sciences with classroom strategies so you can arm yourself with knowledge about your learners. Teach your students about their own learning. Respond to their needs.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. It's an opportunity for us.

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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. There are many factors that influence student learning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.” The lead author of the paper, Kapur Manu, a professor of learning science and higher education at ETH Zurich, responded to that critique by saying he wanted to push back against an uneven implementation of a popular teaching trend.

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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 ?

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California. He enrolled in a master’s program at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) to pursue a multi-subject teaching credential.

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2022

In the bad-old days of college teaching, especially in technical subjects, professors would stand before a classroom of freshmen and say, “Look to the right, look to the left. In a poll addressed to attendees, I asked them to identify engaging teaching methods they use online and in person. One of them will not graduate.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Our teaching pipeline is actively broken and rebuilding it will take decades. Lead pipes, lead paint, asbestos, poor ventilation, lack of natural light and many other factors make our school buildings places that inhibit learning and limit teaching. Where are you baking ? It is a recipe for disaster.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Recently, the 60,000-member National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) released a new “Research Compendium,” a handbook with 38 chapters , each summarizing the best research on an important aspect of teaching and learning mathematics.

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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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