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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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Youth Maker Spaces and Staff Development: A Letter from Thailand

Educator Innovator

It is developing at the same rate as maker programming in Philadelphia and at other Learning Labs. Her class had previously used the FabLab to create wire armatures, onto which they would glob clay; an exercise that the students got quickly bored with. She had no experience using the FabLab’s tools (e.g.,

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Things To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving – Our 2021 Gratitude List

Fractus Learning

Clubs with the opportunities to exercise hobbies and interests beyond schoolwork. The opportunity to eat, exercise, and overall have a healthy lifestyle. Grateful for hormones that control your heart rate, reproduction, and sleep cycles. You exercise in a casual way that doesn’t feel like exercise.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150