Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

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. This story was published in partnership with The Moonshot Catalog.

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MindShift

JULY 13, 2021

Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. In person, his classes are fun, and the students engaged: “I relate whatever it is that we’re doing to something closer to real life,” he said. Students are asked to fold two standard 8.5-by-11-inch

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

They need the power to exercise their skill sets. Second, in response to talent-shortage concerns, schools will place greater emphasis on work-based learning, STEM education, and vocational training programs. But that doesn’t mean everybody must do everything the exact same way. Teachers should feel free to put their marks on it.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

now incorporate game-based learning (PDF) into their instruction, 70% of teachers observe increased student engagement from using educational games, and a recent study shows that games improve learning outcomes (PDF) by 33%. Nearly half of all teachers in the U.S. But what about writing?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

“Students don’t know that they need to do these things, and the more we can stitch that into their core college experience, the better.”. Liberal arts institutions especially have to prepare our students with these skill sets to be competitive [job] candidates.”. I’m thinking about classes. I’m thinking about practice.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Emphasize the Journey Despite the changing educational landscape, there are some learning experiences that remain constant: reading landmark literature to study trailblazing individuals and pivotal moments in history. This approach reinforces students’ own agency, and how it can be deployed for positive change. or Bessie Coleman.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

They need the power to exercise their skill sets. Second, in response to talent-shortage concerns, schools will place greater emphasis on work-based learning, STEM education, and vocational training programs. But that doesn’t mean everybody must do everything the exact same way. Teachers should feel free to put their marks on it.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By thinking, he means actively engaging with the course material. The most problematic strategy that many students try instead, he argues, is what he calls “mimicking,” which he has especially found in the math classes he studies. If we already know how to do it, it's not a thinking task, it's an exercise.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Master Educators use LEGO Education solutions in their classrooms and embody the LEGO Education mission of enabling success for all students through hands-on learning experiences. TypeTastic School Edition also includes original games that help students play their way into typing in just a few hours while having fun.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative. EdSurge talked to Benson about some of the findings in that study. They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning.

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wwwatanabe

OCTOBER 27, 2010

You see, all week long I indulged in PBL lessons such as STEM with GPS and students doing amazing projects, projects that I aspired to do when I was still in the classroom but hadn''t quite gotten there. Instead of being wowed, I got consistent active student engagement with seamless technology integration in every classroom.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? Pane is the lead author of one of the few empirical studies to date of this idea, published late last year. So there you have it. “I love school!”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

What people don’t realize is the disconnect between what students think about the need for a college diploma and what employers think. An ASA study (link) shows that 70% of students believe they have to go to college to get a job, while 80% of employers are open to hiring employees without degrees. –Diane Myers, Ph.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. Students came into this year having not been held completely accountable during the previous year, having little experience in the lab, and in many cases lacking necessary content. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States.

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