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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2014) in “ Confidence in prior knowledge, self-efficacy, interest and prior knowledge: Influences on conceptual change ” sheds light on prior knowledge as what students bring into the learning environment – a mix of accurate scientific understanding and misconceptions about a specific topic. link] Cordova, J., Sinatra, G.

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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

The Hechinger Report

Miles Hooper, the 26-year-old manager of Vermont’s largest goat farm, remembers what it’s like to be 16 and not want to be in a classroom. It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalizelearning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Photo: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. RANDOLPH, Vt.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved. Prior to 2014, students were distracted and disengaged, often doing the bare minimum to graduate from high school (if they did at all).

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Jordan Mickens, who spent his first year as a teacher at Castlemont High School in 2014, said he vividly remembers the technology divide his students faced compared with those in the wealthy areas surrounding Oakland.

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Can kids get passionate about learning — and develop the persistence to follow where it leads? One school has a plan

The Hechinger Report

You can hear a pin drop in the classroom when the kids are dissecting,” said Courtney Cayer, a science teacher at Elm City and the founder of the school’s “mini-med-school” program. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” They take it so seriously. These are not field trips.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. — That’s the trade-off students have to make to come here,” O’Toole said.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.