User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

When education is done “right”, learners often feel and experience the following in their both formal and informal educational environments: Joy. It would just require a shift in the education world’s mindset. Wonderment. Intrinsically Motivated. Accomplishment and Pride (in themselves and in their work).

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In spite of mankind’s amazing potential, it is an ironic truism of modernity that our US educational system is losing massive numbers of young learners each year to boredom, stress, and disengagement (1, 2). We know that labeling and stratifying children are a disservice to both the individual and the educational system. (6).

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Rigid curriculum, lack of resources and bad student behaviour may also be high on the list for many educators. learning-styles theory is sometimes offered as a reason to include digital media in the classroom. 2004) Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning: A systematic and critical review. References Coffield, F.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Instead of dropping out and waiting months or even years to re-start their education, they can move directly into YEP’s classes and start prepping for a high-school equivalency test right away, without ever officially dropping out. Higher Education. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. And admissions for gifted programs tend to favor children with wealthy, educated parents, who are more likely to be white.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

As Cure Violence’s senior director of science and policy Charles Ransford explains it, you have to address problems including PTSD, drug use and trauma before a student can sit in a classroom. Convincing these young dropouts to give school another try can be challenging, Caldeira said. Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Jacks shakes his head at the idea that poor students on scholarship, who are supposed to be equal in the classroom, instead find themselves scrubbing the bathrooms of rich students, serving “as personal maids for their peers…it’s time for all colleges and universities to rethink such programs.”. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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