eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example, while studying engineering principles, teachers can incorporate art by challenging students to design aesthetically-pleasing yet functional structures, blending engineering and design thinking. Teachers can foster curiosity by setting up an “I Wonder” board where students post questions or topics they’d like to explore.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Not only are science classes investigating questions and finding solutions, you’ll also encounter that in your English, fine arts and social studies classes. We try to guide students through interdisciplinary work.” ” Next page: How industry partnerships target the STEM gap.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

For example, one of our PBLWorks project-based learning experiences involves having students answer the driving question How do we inspire people to move to this region?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap. I think about these questions each day as I prepare my students to pursue a career in education, and over the years, I’ve found that incorporating CTE skills into teaching helps students have a deeper learning experience.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Aida Hadzovic English Language Arts Teacher, Brooklyn School District Hadzovic: At first, to be honest, I was hesitant. And it becomes this interdisciplinary lesson—part science, part math, part writing—where the students learn cause-and-effect problem solving. Like many teachers, I wasn’t sure about using AI in my teaching.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning. As a result, career education is not woven into the fabric of K-12 education, often leaving younger students to ask the age old question, “Why am I learning this?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

For many of his students, who attend Atlanta Public Schools in Georgia, the course introduces significant historical events, art and cultural contributions and glaring injustices that they are learning about for the very first time. The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. Year by year, these adults have gathered threads of wisdom, which the university now invites them to weave into the great tapestry of the liberal arts. She was preparing to audition for a performing arts scholarship.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

This is the question that researchers at the MIT Media Lab are asking. Initially I was the one who questioned the word ‘community.’ Initially I was the one who questioned the word ‘community.’ But is coding preoccupying the hearts and minds of students after school hours? I mean, they were posting projects and writing comments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Seeking to educate the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—and prepare PK-5 students for the world beyond the classroom, HNCS’s team sought to enhance science instruction by integrating a comprehensive STREAM (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art, Math) curriculum. Doodle Math. STEM Connect.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

These questions grounded discussions at last weekend’s annual Education Writers Association. It would seem then that grants favored the interdisciplinary approach, but. They can finish with an associate of arts degree or transfer credits to another college for their bachelor’s. higher education seminar.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

From traditional activities to authentic work: Moving from isolated academic work environments to providing students opportunities to engage with and contribute to relevant local, national, and international interdisciplinary communities. These include: Deeper learning. Where’s the Humanity?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

Take Pitzer College, a private liberal arts school east of Los Angeles, which doesn’t accept SATs or ACTs at all. In Pitzer’s case those values include social responsibility, intercultural understanding, interdisciplinary learning, student engagement and environmental sustainability.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Ask a Question Two Rivers was founded on the principle that we need to embrace a broader definition of student success than what has been handed to us by state and national policy. Problem Solving: The ability to identify the key questions in a problem, develop possible paths to a solution, and follow through with a solution.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

That’s the kind of insight Yale art students and faculty bring to Blended Reality, a cross-curricular applied research program through which they create interactive experiences using virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D printing tools. You’re trying to answer questions and you’re not asking them,” Berry says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Art Graesser: A lot of the learning that goes on is shallow learning: memorizing things and being exposed to ideas, for example. That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. What drove you to develop these systems? What was the problem you were trying to solve? It’s a different world.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

history and civics to be studied in an interdisciplinary manner. While the EAD roadmap is not a curriculum, it does provide thematic questions anchored both in history and civics, which educators can use to guide curricular and pedagogical decisions. I am most inspired by the EAD’s acknowledgement and focus on the need for U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The middle school has been in operation for 10 years, with innovation and the arts woven into its original charter. Everything is interdisciplinary,” explained Stephanie Passman, the lead teacher, during EdSurge’s recent visit to the school. But it's a valid question." But it's a valid question,” she said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science. He served as a devil’s advocate for us, questioning the need for rubrics and correctly remarking (and I paraphrase) that “life doesn’t have rubrics.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students, which is followed by a series of brief videos and prompts used to guide class discussion. STEM Connect.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And one question being asked by pundits and politicos is, how can we motivate young voters to show up at the polls? But a book published earlier this year by two political scientists tweaks that question. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying voter behavior. It’s election season in the U.S.,

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Choose an interdisciplinary topic for broader appeal Freshmen often have not yet decided what their major would be, nor should they! Students consistently asked hard, and oftentimes, unanswerable questions: Are teachers going to risk their jobs to teach a well-rounded curriculum? Will half the country be miseducated? What can we do?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

Journal Writing Prompts Bell Ringers for a Full Year Editable Distance Learning By Tracee Orman Grades: 5th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts, Writing Standards: CCSS RI.5.1, From SEL check-ins to deeper questions about their teenage experience, these prompts are effective ways for high schoolers to reflect on how theyre really feeling.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

I’ve always been a fan of this strategy, but during that session, someone asked a question that I couldn’t answer: How do we grade these fairly? That question sent me down a rabbit hole. And despite not getting that original question answered, the search did lead me to something called competency-based learning.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President, Institutional Strategy & Effectiveness, Mississippi State University University Research Supporting undergraduate research and challenging assumptions R.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

Near the top of that list is reading instruction, the question of how we should be teaching young children to read. Some quick background on me: My experience is in English language arts for grades 6 through 12. Even from within, the “sides” often talk about one another in polarizing language.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

And his work draws from his experiences in school, weaving across the realms of interdisciplinary thinking, social-emotional learning, self care, and the steady search for creativity on a human scale. I had a good art teacher and a good English teacher, and those two things, English and art, are part of my journey.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Awe as a Catalyst for Curiosity and Interdisciplinary Learning in Online Higher Education Integrating awe into online curricula can be a powerful catalyst for curiosity and interdisciplinary learning.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Awe as a Catalyst for Curiosity and Interdisciplinary Learning in Online Higher Education Integrating awe into online curricula can be a powerful catalyst for curiosity and interdisciplinary learning.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. For many educators, this disruption raises questions about the role of writing in their disciplines. What gives us reason for hope comes down to how we define writing.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Students in language arts can learn the political pros and cons of multilingual communications, teaching, and governing. Key questions to guide student learning include: How do we know what we know? Crystal Harris is assistant professor in the interdisciplinary studies program at Governors State University. Who provided it?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Each project at Thomas’ school is driven by a question, broken up into “advanced inquiry targets,” or sub-questions that students explore through research and tasks. For his project, Thomas visited and interviewed the curator of The Propaganda Poster Art Centre in Shanghai.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

From the moment ChatGPT hit the scene, articles proclaimed the death of the college essay , and students have begun questioning the need to develop skills in writing. For many educators, this disruption raises questions about the role of writing in their disciplines. What gives us reason for hope comes down to how we define writing.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Students in language arts can learn the political pros and cons of multilingual communications, teaching, and governing. Key questions to guide student learning include: How do we know what we know? Crystal Harris is assistant professor in the interdisciplinary studies program at Governors State University. Who provided it?

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Teach Your Kids

MARCH 8, 2025

Harvard Business Review ) A Harvard study found that investors ask men “promotion” questions like “How big can this get?” ” while women are asked “prevention” questions like “How do you mitigate risk?” The only reason I’ve been able to raise over $1.5

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance A bored child is not a broken child. Real-Life Parallel: At K12 Schools, students often take on interdisciplinary projects where they’re not told what to do, just what problem to solve. Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

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