MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. There are numerous research studies that demonstrate the relationship between spatial reasoning and what we typically think of as mathematical ability.

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

A 2012 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most high-achieving low-income students don’t apply to any competitive colleges. There’s an education happening outside the classroom with people our kids otherwise wouldn’t come into contact with.” . But that was naïve.” .

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Study Report Groups Case Study 71

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Her hair was neatly divided into two braids, and she was in her usual seat in her ninth-grade classroom at Pittsfield Middle High School in rural New Hampshire. To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too.

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Social Media Survey Groups Report 40

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. But by analyzing a game’s strengths and weaknesses, and by matching it to course content, educators can take advantage of the many games that are suitable for the classroom. Definitions.

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Game-Based Learning Education Gamification Learning 100

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. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 2, 2015

One main concern was to try to avoid a common problem with traditional training studies, the outcomes of which have been somewhat discouraging. Although improvement on a particular skill in isolation has been reported, this improvement is often slight and fleeting, and there is very little evidence of transfer.

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Strategy Handbook Examples Exercises 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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Dropout STEM Analysis Company 86

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

.” This was what the mother of a nineteen-year-old killed by a bomb in Kirkuk said on an HBO documentary quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times on the morning of November 12, 2004. Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. Or the flipped classroom.

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Technology Education Report Training 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. We can’t help what they choose,’” said Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University who has spent almost two decades studying charter schools. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Report Company Data Meeting 112

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” The third version of SCORM, SCORM 2004, also introduced sequencing, identifying the order in which these content objects should be presented. ” The full slide deck is available here.

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Software Learning Training LMS 90

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2018

As the number of 18-year-olds declines , higher-education institutions and, eventually, employers, are becoming more dependent on this older group to fill classrooms and jobs. Whenever I have a break, I’m back on my computer and studying. I’d get a couple of hours in and study here and there,” Meyers Taylor said.

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Training Study Course Report 49