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Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks to Elevate Instruction

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! The learning theories and frameworks below provide useful tips on how to design online instruction and plan digital lessons to help students thrive. I also have discovered tips to support all students and diversify my curriculum to meet their various learning needs.

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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

Black enrollment in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — is among the issues that urgently demand attention, said Cato Laurencin, CEO of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. “We Related: Successfully replicating the Meyerhoff STEM scholars program.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. After all, grade school students still learn about the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages.

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Engaging New Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education and Partners Welcome Students and Teachers Back to School

eSchool News

(Thursday, August 26, 2021) — To welcome K-12 students and teachers back to school, Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—and leading corporate and community partners proudly introduce four new engaging, no-cost virtual field trips (VFTs).

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How Three Nonprofits Are Connecting Kids With Diverse Mentors During the Pandemic

Edsurge

learned that they would not be going back to school the following Monday. As leaders grappled with emerging COVID-19 information, one week off became two weeks, then a month, then a shift to remote learning and working for most people for an extended period, some of which continues to this day.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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OPINION: AP Physics as a force for civil rights?

The Hechinger Report

students who have the aptitude and work ethic to excel academically often lack access to the advanced coursework needed to fulfill their potential. Demand for AP classes, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, vastly outpaces the supply of qualified teachers, exacerbating educational disparities. “On

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