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More high school grads are rejecting 4-year pathways

eSchool News

Key points: More than half of surveyed students say they will opt out of the traditional four-year undergraduate path This decision to pursue alternative post-secondary options hints at an evolving postsecondary landscape. This highlights a gap in exposing students to various education and career choices.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. In this culminating project-based unit, students design prototypes for real users that address issues related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Interested in learning more?

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Passing Legislation Is One Thing.

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The Journey to Becoming an Author

A Principal's Reflections

Apparently, I was dead wrong on this assumption and quickly learned that Twitter in itself wasn’t a powerful tool, but instead, it was the conversations, ideas, resources, and passionate educators that connected with me. As a result, I was flooded with speaking requests and asked to write even more books, including Uncommon Learning.

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Victims of the system

Learning with 'e's

I worked for 20 years in classrooms, am married to a secondary school teachers, and I have been involved in teacher education for more years than I care to mention. This tends to mean 'teaching to the test', at the detriment to everything else a child could learn at school. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Piaget Stages – The Development Of Intelligence and Reason

Fractus Learning

Vygotsky believed social interactions were necessary for learning and development, and Jean Piaget thought even children learned through doing. Children learn by themselves without peers or adults telling them what to do. The children build their knowledge based on their experience. Secondary Circular Reactions.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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