Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Put like that, they feel benign, almost harmless.

Pedagogy 248

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 248

Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Digital Promise launched a crowdsourcing effort on how companies use scientific research to design and develop their educational technology products. Below you can see the responses that best highlight what we’ve learned from ed-tech developers so far. How do you use research? How do you use research?

Research 91

Research Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Educational Technology 91

ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Innovative STEM programming requires a willingness to adopt emerging tools and technologies, as well as methodologies like project-based learning. We saw an opportunity to use Minecraft Education as a project-based learning tool in computer science, which is how Level Up Los Angeles was born.

Project-Based Learning 126

Project-Based Learning Pedagogy K-12 Research Skills 126

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Its teachers have been focused on project-based learning for a few years now and they have been a part of the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment , experimenting with ways to move away from standardized tests as the primary way to assess student achievement.

Public School 121

Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 121

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2018

On each of the school’s three stories, teams of teachers huddle to discuss new pedagogies, while some students chitchat and others present their latest projects, all under the bright, clear light of the atrium windows. Education researchers flocked to visit and observe teachers and students at work.

Pedagogy 108

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Tradition Research 108

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Luckily, there’s the Research Map. The Research Map is a hub for learning sciences research. They offer summaries of relevant research, including related tools and resources, as well as videos that highlight major research findings. The answer is: Topic Pages.

Project-Based Learning 78

Project-Based Learning Education Pedagogy Learning Science 78

Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Resources like the Challenge Based Learning framework , tools such as Teams , Flipgrid , Pear Deck (especially in student-paced mode ), and Wakelet , and this blog post about creating authentic distance learning in science class can help us prepare for this new type of work. Leveraging Better Time Management.

EdTech 131

EdTech Elementary School Pedagogy Project-Based Learning 131

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Christopher Lowman built a writing course for the era of ChatGPT, introducing anthropology majors to Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ability to prompt research topics and improve writing while teaching students to recognize AI’s limitations. Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 87

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 87

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning. But there is some indirect evidence.

High School 82

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 82

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

What happens is that the academic pedagogy keeps getting pushed down, down, down and quashing what early childhood development is all about. Project-based learning, in which students embark on long research or art projects, science experiments or even writing books , is one of the hottest trends in high school reform.

High School 105

High School Project-Based Learning Charter School Elementary School 105