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Use Design Thinking to Develop Critical Skills for a Global Economy

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In an essay linking cognitive bias and design thinking, Liedtka (2014) warns that “innovators seeking to produce and assess more novel, value-creating, and differentiated ideas face significant challenges from different sources of cognitive bias” (p. References. Levy, F., & Murnane, R. doi: 10.1162/003355303322552801.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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million (Seed) 2016 TAL Education Wonder Workshop $20 million (B) 2016 Sinovation Ventures, WI Harper Group Source: EdSurge, Crunchbase Where Business Booms. EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It Wonder Workshop , which develops robot toys that teach kids how to code.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. System leaders don’t dispute that assessment. Nyakora jumps, and his friends laugh.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

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Workshop and other in-service events are magnified by collaborative, shared-experiences. Pursuing a “sense of success”: New teachers explain their career decisions, American Educational Research Journal 40 (3) (2003), pp. New York: Free, 2003. Image Credit: Chris Stein, a superstar Teacher, and illustrator Extraordinaire!

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. The point of the ranking, however, is to encourage state officials to assess their policies and programs.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

Beginning in 2003 and continuing consistently thereafter I have depicted learning resources as words in a conversation , and applied the logic of language to the logic of reuse. Is it the improvements we’ve made to the IMathAS quantitative assessment platform? We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.