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Would You Rather: Designing with Choice in Mind

Catlin Tucker

Relatedness is trickier to achieve when students are learning online. When I work with teachers, I encourage them to treat their classrooms (physical or virtual) like a laboratory. Choice has been shown to improve retention, transfer performance, and motivation (Schneider, Nebel, Beege & Rey, 2018). Would You Rather? An Experiment.

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14-year-old Named America’s Top Young Scientist for Inventing an AI Handheld Pesticide Detector

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During testing, the device achieved an accuracy rate of identifying pesticide residues on spinach and tomatoes of greater than 85%, meeting the project’s objectives for effectiveness and speed. This year’s winner was paired with Aditya Banerji, Senior Research Engineer of 3M’s Corporate Research Process Laboratory.

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

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Instead, more often than not, graduate education provides depth almost to the systematic exclusion of breadth; developing isolated and disconnected experts rather than those who can meaningfully connect with others and their expertise toward achieving common goals. They sure do!

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

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Tables are covered with high-tech laboratory equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, autoclaves, and laboratory water baths. Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. I am learning with the students.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom.

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How Civil Rights Pioneer Bob Moses Changed Math Education

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Civil rights leader and education pioneer Bob Moses (1935-2021), who died in late July, always looked at his evolving mission through the lens of citizenship and what educational processes were needed to achieve and enjoy its blessings. His starting point was the preamble to the U.S.

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