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Stop Celebrating Low-Level Learning

Tom Murray

In the spring of 2002, I was teaching 4th grade in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As a teacher in my second year, my classroom had a 1:1 student-to-device ratio. That’s right, in 2002, 17 years ago, we were 1:1. Murray, 2002 (HAHA!!) In 2002, these devices were new. Student engagement was planned throughout.

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Exploring Design Thinking Micro-credentials in the Classroom

Digital Promise

The opportunity that frequently emerged from the research was improving students’ mindsets and skills through design thinking methodologies. Preliminary research suggests that design thinking improves metacognition in K-12 students, and ultimately improves STEM performance. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al.,

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Use of Blogging to Address the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

Westbrook has been tackling the Common Core in an engaging and innovative fashion. As students engage nonfiction, they learn to grapple with complex ideas and arguments and use those ideas in forming their own opinions.

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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

We must also support educators with the knowledge and skills to use technology in powerful ways to improve student engagement, critical thinking, problems solving, collaboration, and more. Research consistently shows teacher quality is one of the most important school-based factors in student achievement 1. 2 Kraft, M.

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. Planning leads to the development of explicit strategy instruction that includes guided practice and collaborative student work—which ultimately fosters high levels of student engagement. References Dove, M. & Honigsfeld, A. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Honigsfeld, A., & & Cohan, A.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. ” How would the program operate?

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PROOF POINTS: Two studies find scattergrams reduce applications to elite colleges

The Hechinger Report

The company was the first to market scattergrams to schools in 2002 and says its product reaches nine million of the nation’s 15 million high school students. Only one counselor told me he had seen a case where a student was discouraged after seeing scattergrams, but he said it was an unusual experience.

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