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Mission Molecular Literacy: A Framework for Transforming Chemistry Education

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Creating fun and accessible chemistry stories has been a labor of love for Colleen as a retired University of Arizona chemistry professor and author of a series of kids’ chemistry comic books. This vision transforms chemistry from a “weed-out” course into an accessible, engaging, and essential component of lifelong learning.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. However, it usually doesn’t.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. In particular, the age and cognitive development of your students has a profound impact on their ability to succeed in different online learning environments.

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Early Numeracy as a Cornerstone of Long-Term Academic Success

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A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills. These include number recognition, counting, basic operations (addition and subtraction), spatial awareness and patterns.

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The Case for Expanding the Definition of 'Personalization' to Meet the Needs of the Whole Child

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Technology plays a critical role in this process; not just in how students experience learning, but also in how educators access and use tools and information to leverage and enrich the time they have with their students. math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art).

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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

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In addition, DevTech recruited facilitators, such as educators and museum coordinators, from all over the country to host these events in their respective communities and created Family Coding Day protocols that are freely accessible and can be adapted for other coding technologies. KIBO Family Coding Day Protocol.

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Big Tech Needs to Treat Our Children Better

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I’m a believer in the merits of technology and have written about how technology can be used to broaden access to knowledge , connect people and even improve empathy. But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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