Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). Metacognition is defined as thinking about one’s thinking or learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Next, Keith explored how engineering curriculum design parameters, as codified by Dr. Christine Cunningham, EiE founding director at Museum of Science, Boston, can be adapted for early education. Exploring materials and methods : This is a great hands-on activity for preschoolers and kindergartners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

In his research, Merrill established five instructional principles that can be applied when designing a program or practice to achieve effective and efficient instruction across the various learning styles. Visual Learners. Visual learners are at their best when they first see what they’re expected to know.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Every teacher and administrator I spoke with mentioned the idea that, in the ideal math classroom, the teacher sets clear expectations and acts as the facilitator while the students collaboratively engage in hands-on activities and games. The challenge is to create resources that foster this kind of environment naturally.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The science can and should guide curriculum design. Myers said that, “The multi-sensory engagement that comes from using hand motions, reading often during lessons, standing during lessons, and using their voices throughout instruction activates different parts of the brain, leading to greater learning at a more rapid pace.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Considering the amount of professional development we provide teachers on curriculum design and instructional planning, how can we not invest resources in improving how teachers grade? Rather than be only the recipients of grades, students can be active in a community-wide discussion about how to grade more equitably.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

and Kelly Urlacher, senior curriculum designer at DreamBox Learning, had a conversation of essential approaches for supporting these students in “ Key Strategies to Making Access and Equity a Reality for ELL Students.”. Michele Dawson, senior director of instructional technology in Compton Unified School District in Calif.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Waltham, MA – KinderLab Robotics , a leader in educational STEAM robotics for grades pre-K–5, has launched Thinking with KIBO: Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Early Grades , a free curriculum designed to help students understand how AI tools work and think critically about how these tools can improve lives in their communities.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

The suite includes scaffolded and leveled, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support STEM, computer science, coding, robotics, and SEL in engaging ways, and to embrace all learners from any and every background. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here’s why creativity is essential in today’s curriculum. What is STEAM and STEM activity? Much STEM and STEAM activity happens in labs. A STEM or STEAM lab is an environment where students, irrespective of grade, can come together and actively participate in hands-on STEM and STEAM learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

The school librarian is no longer just the manager of a room full of books, but a resource and technology expert, reading teacher, curriculum designer, program administrator, professional development coordinator, information literacy teacher, and a school leader with a finger on the pulse of every classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The school librarian is no longer just the manager of a room full of books, but a resource and technology expert, reading teacher, curriculum designer, program administrator, professional development coordinator, information literacy teacher, and a school leader with a finger on the pulse of every classroom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Smart campuses use advanced lighting systems that adjust the intensity and color temperature of lights based on natural light availability and the specific needs of different learning activities. In contrast, warmer, dimmer lighting can create a calming atmosphere for activities like relaxation or group discussions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

Curriculum resources of any kind are viewed as unnecessary, redundant to what teachers already do or should be doing. This is its wisdom: teachers are critical curriculum designers and are well positioned to tailor instructional designs to the needs of their particular students. This myth has great appeal.

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eSchool News

MAY 18, 2023

Here are just a few strategies that teachers can use to build engineering into their classroom curriculum: 1. Simple activities such as building a glider out of paper and plastic straws or designing ways for a plastic diver to stay afloat in a pool of water can do much to spark student imagination.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

MindLabs by Explore Interactive brings state-of-the-art technology that, combined with award-winning EiE curricula, will provide teachers with standards-aligned, engaging activities to help students build skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, engineering design, and team collaboration — all skills required for jobs in the 21st century.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners. subsidiary.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

BEGiN is best known for offering a pair of early-education apps: Learn & Grow, which offers digital reading activities for kids ages 2 to 8, and Learn & Play, which provides games, stories and songs that introduce foundational skills to children up to age 3. To date, the New York-based company has raised $93 million.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Its Growth Strategies are research-informed social emotional learning interventions, lesson plans and activities created for teachers, by teachers for grades K-8. Aperture Education’s DESSA Comprehensive SEL System provides assessments to measure the social-emotional competence of students in grades K-12.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

We now go beyond simply supplying educational materials to educators – we work hand in hand with expert teachers and curriculum designers to guide parents and teachers. New Expert-led Curriculum Identifies and Maps Essential Skills for Success. Industry’s Most Comprehensive Learning Library: Now with Digital Learning Exercises.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The online course can be used as a complement to hands-on building activities with a physical LEGO® Education SPIKE Prime set, either before or parallel to the hands-on experience.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

SuperDville is a mission driven woman and minority owned and operated company which produces a video based social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed to empower 7-13-year-olds with learning differences. www.superdville.com “The response was incredible. www.superdville.com

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. So, all told, a ninety-minute session is not really ninety minutes; it’s 15 six-minute activities. That’s the engineering side of my brain.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The classroom program, which began in fall 2018 and runs through the spring, pairs Nintendo technology with a curriculum designed by the Institute of Play to create a STEM-focused, hands-on learning experience that combines digital and physical elements.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2020

Look for STEM programs and online resources that provide step-by-step curriculum designed for the classroom or PD opportunities for teachers. These organizations are increasingly incorporating STEM activities and learning into their program offerings.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

use tech-empowered learning tools and computational environments, take active roles of designers and builders; and do it in a social setting, with helpful mentors and coaches, or over networks. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. In his view, there was hope for every child.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Every activity on computers and the software applications they use in class further generates data about them everyday. That way, tech companies, and also researchers, policy makers or curriculum designers who want to access school data can have a privacy-honoring way to request access.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Whether creating digital resources and activities or planning a large purchase of student devices, the technology should support the learning, not the other way around. One promising development in blended curriculum design that promotes student engagement is the new COVA model.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

There are active debates about the value of the traditional college experience, and I understand that perspective. How students engage with their professors, the methods used to evaluate learning and retention and course curriculum design will all be influenced by the opportunities and challenges posed by AI.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

2016) depict co-creation in learning and teaching as an activity involving staff and student collaborative work to create parts of the curriculum and pedagogical approaches. The latter aspect also fits with the pedagogic co-design student role classification as depicted in Bovill et al. Bovill et al., In Rust, C.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. This requires them to do research so that they can demonstrate their skills.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

By actively focusing on developing a sense of belonging in our schools and classrooms, our students were better able to spend their cognitive energy on learning, rather than wondering, “Do I really belong here?”. That’s why our courses for new teachers reflect our system’s value that each teacher should understand how the brain learns.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

Thus far, we have discussed the Universal Design for Learning and the integration of the IPEC competencies to foster inclusion and encourage active collaboration. The next thing to consider is the design and structure of the learning offering or activity. Let us focus on applying design thinking. and Judith A.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

Thus far, we have discussed the Universal Design for Learning and the integration of the IPEC competencies to foster inclusion and encourage active collaboration. The next thing to consider is the design and structure of the learning offering or activity. Let us focus on applying design thinking. and Judith A.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

Designing With Intention Thus far, we have discussed the Universal Design for Learning and the integration of the IPEC competencies to foster inclusion and encourage active collaboration. The next thing to consider is the design and structure of the learning offering or activity.

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