ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching. However, that would require us to recognize the art that goes into teaching in the first place.

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Teaching Professional Development Humanities History 101

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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2020

To address these equity gaps and help postsecondary institutions evaluate the effects of a course that has recently transitioned to digital learning, Digital Promise, with support from Every Learner Everywhere , has created a new course: Measuring Digital Learning: Impact and Equity. Creating an Equity-Centered Course.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

—John Hattie, emeritus professor at the University of Melbourne “The current levels of enthusiasm for flipped learning are not commensurate with and far exceed the vast variability of scientific evidence in its favor,” the paper argues. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.”

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Research K-12 Elementary School Learning Science 141

Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. For example, many math lessons focus on teaching the one correct path to reach the one right answer to a problem.

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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. In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced.

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Civics Psychology Humanities Learning Science 95

ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

And by collaborating on research with colleagues through WiKIT, an international research organization focused on edtech evidence, I’ve reviewed multiple tools using generative AI to teach children to read. For example, these tools could disrupt traditional ideologies in literary texts if they involved teachers in the design process.

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Tutoring EdTech Learning Science Research 135

ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Most schools, for the health and safety of their communities, adjusted them in a variety of ways, often making them more “brain-friendly” and aligning them with promising research and strategies in the science of teaching and learning, or what we like to call, Mind, Brain and Education (MBE).

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Elementary School Professional Development Learning Science Research 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Concerns about the quality and price of traditional academic programs in higher education have generated interest in competency-based programs that allow students to learn at their own pace, with up to 600 institutions now interested in developing, building or offering these new programs. Credit: Getty Images.

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Tradition Economics Learning Science High School 81

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

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 ? It kind of brought back to me the science of teaching. This program is well worth the effort.

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EdTech Geography Learning Science Economics 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2020

And while many parents are trying to find resources to homeschool, Golin said it’s important for parents to take pressure off themselves to provide a “traditional academic” experience for young children. In fact, it’s OK—and even good— to just let kids play by themselves.

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Museum Professional Development Learning Science Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The first time, students take it individually in the lecture hall, the traditional way. When you do active learning in the classroom, which I have a decade of experience doing, you can see there are free riders, people who just don’t contribute, and then you have to try to intervene and manage the groups,” he said. I’m sure it does.

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Tradition Teaching Education Learning Science 141

Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

What we now know in learning science is that learning is complex, often unpredictable, and a socially developed phenomenon.”. If we want schools to support human development and learning, Wilson says, we need to begin to question some of what we’ve inherited. Learn more about Pedagogy of Play. Additional Resources.

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Pedagogy Civic Engagement Civics Economics 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But ironically, a fixed syllabus of readings and assignments for open-ended project-based learning courses may prevent us from capitalizing on “teachable moments.”. In the learning sciences, teachable moments go by many names: impasse-driven learning, preparation of future learning, desirable difficulties, or productive failure.

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Project-Based Learning Library Learning Science Tradition 57

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” They are two-week intensive courses that take children outside the classroom and beyond the traditional subjects. Expeditions aim to impart what Cayer learned by being around her father: a habit of pursuing expertise or passion, or both.

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Charter School High School Learning Science Tradition 96

Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

EdClusters18 brought together nearly 100 leaders from more than 20 regions and 48 organizations across the country working to advance future-facing teaching and learning. Personalized learning implementation. Teacher professional learning, training, and practice. See the full agenda here.) REPORTS FROM THE FIELD.

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EdTech Education Social Justice Research 79

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In many of his videos, he acts out scenes from famous Hollywood films, except swapping in terms from the strategic management courses he teaches. As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, effective science communication is vital to fulfilling that obligation. “I Except, instead of saying “Have I fired six shots or only five today?”

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Teaching Critical Thinking Cultures Learning Science 113

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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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 95

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

. — Danilo Moreta, a Cornell University graduate student studying corn breeding, stood wearing jeans and a black button-down shirt as undergraduate students entered room 336 in the Plant Science Building for a Tuesday night section of PLSCI 4300, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. Moreta teaches the science section in Spanish.

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Heritage Global Studies Advocacy High School 96

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2023

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.

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EdTech Tradition Middle School Learning Science 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

Will AI literacy soon become as important a subject to teach in schools as reading, writing and math? There’s also the question of how AI literacy fits into efforts to teach coding skills in schools. For her, a big concern is overcoming a fear of the tools, or a sense that they are too complicated to learn.

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Library Community Engagement Economics Learning Science 139

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Chatbots that leverage AI are going to be a kind of intermediary a translator, says Zachary Pardos, an associate professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley, who is one of the editors on a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics that will be devoted to generative AI in the field.

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Tutoring K-12 Humanities Learning Science 135