eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

It is a system built on old communication methods, inequitable access, and ineffective gatherings. The old open house, parent conference, and PTO model leaves all parties disappointed around an essential partnership needed to support students through the growing complexities of school and life. Acknowledge that old mental models exist.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

Equal Access Doesn’t Mean Equally Helpful Edward Gonzalez oversees open educational resources for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools in California. He’s spent his 25-year career working for social change and transformation within public education, in part through what he calls “humanizing mental models and systems.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Ability to access Google Docs and Sheets is needed. Participant device prerequisites. Laptops and Chromebooks tend to play best with Google Docs and Sheets, which is what we will be using to facilitate some of our work together. Purpose and objectives.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

There are numerous ways to give students access to deeper learning, greater student agency, and more authentic work opportunities that don’t involve learning technologies. In Chapter 2, Eric and Tom do a nice job of articulating ways that technology can enhance student learning. But the chapter sometimes feels a little technology-centric.

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Lab to Class

MARCH 31, 2024

The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not. A final, but not to be underestimated benefit may be that math class becomes more enjoyable for students as well.

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Math Mental Models Textbooks Study 52

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans. We want education to be accessible.

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