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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

She has taught English Language Arts, Social Studies, Film, Journalism, and enjoys writing, illustrating, and cooking in her free time. We have to go back in and continually edit, check for accuracy, check for bias, make sure it's meeting and serving the needs of our students. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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Teaching students specific technical skills

Neo LMS

Streaming in schools is a contentious subject, and there are studies to show that streaming prior to upper secondary school can have a negative effect on both social and academic outcomes, particularly for underprivileged students. Streaming should really only be considered in a high school setting. What role will ed-tech play?

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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

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Huh uh,” Kunz said, “none of those.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Also, this week, thanks to my invited participation in the National Governors Association regional summit, Meet the Threat: States Confront the Cyber Challenge , I published a new post “ How Should We Address the Cybersecurity Threats Facing K-12 Schools? Studies are always helpful, but this should already be understood.

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Hi-Lo Texts: Reaching fringe readers with text bands

The Cornerstone for Teachers

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project promotes a workshop model for reading and writing and has numerous units of study as a curriculum and many resources available for teachers. I can read F series) by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Pat Schories Meet Yasmin! By Tedd Arnold (F Series) J.D. the Kid Barber by J. Dillard (J.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via NPR on Sunday : “ President Trump Set To Meet With Presidents Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities.” ” Via NPR on Tuesday : “ Trump, And Most Black College Presidents, Absent From Annual Meeting.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. support, EFF resigns.”