Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Reimagining learning.

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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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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 28, 2022

The institutions include Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative , Savannah Technical College/Technical College System of Georgia , Tennessee State University’s Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences , and the University of Maine System’s Statewide All Learning Counts Initiative. I think that part of it is great and new.

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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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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

Since the fall 2016 meeting of the League of Innovative Schools , superintendents from around the country have connected with leading researchers in the field of maker learning. Investigating the social values and purposes that maker learning programs promote.

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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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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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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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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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

This led to the design of activities that could be done in parallel at home and school and allowed teachers to learn about children’s and families’ traditions and experiences. Creating books with their families’ routines also allowed teachers and classmates to learn about families’ traditions and celebrate diversity.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 23, 2018

Learner variability includes: … the young person who lives in poverty, or is learning to speak English and may not yet have the background knowledge to enable comprehension of a reading passage. Demonstrate how learning sciences research can improve classroom practice.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Related: PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better Back in 2000, the National Reading Panel, a 14-member group working with the Department of Education, identified six techniques for effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, guided oral reading, vocabulary and comprehension.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

To learn more about Digital Promise’s equity work, check out our latest report “ Designing a Process for Inclusive Innovation: A radical commitment to equity.” Subscribe to Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Connections’ newsletter to read stories that highlight relevant and useful findings from the research community.

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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 ? You gain such valuable information and insight that you don't get through a traditional education program.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

So when schools called us during the summer of 2021, they often asked whether they should stick with the schedules they created for distance, hybrid or safer in-person learning or return to a more traditional format. Our consistent answer is: “Don’t go back!” The truth is, some do and some don’t.

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2019

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.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

The third installment in Digital Promise Global’s Making Learning Personal For All series, “ Supporting Research-Based Personalization for Reading Success, ” provides an overview of the learning science research behind learning to read.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The first time, students take it individually in the lecture hall, the traditional way. First, I have to tell you about an unusual type of test called a two-stage exam. In a two-stage exam, students take the same exam twice in a row. Then, working in small groups of three to five students, they answer the same questions again.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter. The teachers participating committed to creating lesson plans — like the shade simulation — that will be made available freely for others to use on platforms including the website SubjectToClimate.org. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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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. Quick tips for playful classroom design.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. Wilson wants to learn science-specific vocabulary and have Spanish skills “to communicate across barriers.” is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D.

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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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Katrina Stevens, Director of Learning Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, also shared a vision for how mature EdClusters can collaboratively design, evaluate, and scale promising tools and practices. Personalized learning implementation. Teacher professional learning, training, and practice. REPORTS FROM THE FIELD.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Rather than using only traditional, randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies (which are costly and difficult to implement), schools can try action research , design-based implementation research (DBIR) , and other continuous improvement processes. Visual recording of the panel discussion on Research Use in Schools.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

These tools have the potential to enhance reading experiences for children, if they’re designed with insights from educators and researchers, particularly in the field of learning science. For example, these tools could disrupt traditional ideologies in literary texts if they involved teachers in the design process.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

During my career, I have obtained three degrees in education and social policy, cultural and educational policy studies and learning sciences — not to mention, I am currently working on a doctoral degree, as we speak.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

Leo Lo, a professor of libraries and learning sciences at the University of New Mexico who recently led a survey of librarians about the need to address the ethical and privacy concerns raised by AI. Those guests are: Susan Gonzales, who founded the nonprofit AIandYou to spread AI literacy.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

She and a colleague published a journal article about their experience last year, called “ TikTok: An Emergent Opportunity for Teaching and Learning Science Communication Online. ” “It is the ethical responsibility of researchers to disseminate findings with the public in a timely way,” the paper concludes. “As

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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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