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2021 Reflections: Looking Back and Harnessing Powerful Possibilities

Digital Promise

This year, we celebrated our 10-year anniversary —a milestone that speaks to a decade of improving educational outcomes through powerful and innovative learning experiences ??grounded While we’ve known about the challenges of equity and outcomes in U.S. grounded in learning sciences research.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Brought sharply into focus during the 2007-8 Great Recession — and seemingly every month since in the news and on social media — the U.S. billion in 2020 —11 percent of America’s total, according to the National Science Foundation. How do we reverse this crisis in confidence? R&D performed by the entire U.S.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

Achievements are touted on social media, changing the tone of the district’s story to engage the public positively. Leveraging the power of the volunteers to improve student reading outcomes requires an understanding of the instruction, the students’ needs, the data, and the resources themselves. TECH USED ?

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

Edsurge

Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. Now that robots are flipping burgers and reading X-rays—for a fraction of the cost of human labor—learners need to prepare for careers that employ uniquely human traits like self-regulation and communication.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

Some people have called parts of this “competency-based learning,” but ideally schools can achieve this shift without altering outcomes in such a holistic way. Cauthen’s team is currently figuring out the logistics of shipping the giant game board to every city for the Learning Counsel regional events in 2020.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

It also means fewer language programs, robotics labs and other enrichment opportunities that parents increasingly perceive as necessary. Koehler arrived at SFUSD in May 2020, which also happens to be when most believe the story of the district’s hemorrhaging of students began. Credit: Sonya Abrams for The Hechinger Report.

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3 ways to make social-emotional learning REAL for students

The Cornerstone for Teachers

As a result of this work, led by Byron, his school recently won the 2019-2020 Whole Child Award. Research has shown that students with good SEL skills have much better outcomes once they actually get to college and career. They are not machines, they are not robots, we cannot push them 24/7.