Edsurge
OCTOBER 21, 2018
Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords. Rigorous Science In my Montessori teacher training, I was shown the typical science experiment about whether plants need light to grow: You put one plant in a box and another by a window.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 26, 2015
For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. Despite a full year of planning and training, teachers didn’t feel comfortable giving up so much control to students.
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Edsurge
MARCH 6, 2017
For those teaching online courses, professors at California State University at Channel Islands have some advice: don’t be a robot. No one wants to feel like a cog in the wheel, especially not when it comes to something as personal as learning. EdSurge: I wanted to talk about your Humanizing Online Learning training course.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. She says students must learn the process for problem solving, which requires more time asking questions before jumping to solutions. Why is this important?
MindShift
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.
Edsurge
JANUARY 29, 2018
The same could be said with the robotics pieces and parts—before they would often disappear and vanish. Now, I can have a student practice building his robot four or five times and then go really put it together. Now, I can have a student practice building his robot four or five times and then go really put it together.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 3, 2016
Rando noticed when his daughter, Olivia, a middle school student and a black belt in karate, enrolled in VLACS to accommodate training and competition. Related: Is the future of education teacher-robots bumping into walls? That level of teacher communication was the biggest difference A. They’re proactive about it.
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