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3 Ways to Shake Up The Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

Online research. Design and create (presentations, infographics, storybooks, etc.) I design a variety of creative stations that incorporate music, art, photography, creative writing, etc. Stations can be composed of a variety of activities (including, but not limited to): Teacher-led small group instruction.

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Wow! This inquiry-based, technology-rich school has no tech staff

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With the support of a teacher or parent as facilitator, students research, design, plan, implement, and reflect on their learning. A pilot project for our Next Generation Curriculum was a student who researched feminist critique, medical ethics, and border wars. Students decide what they want to learn and/or do.

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Twig Science Nevada Approved for Statewide Use

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Tools designed to support student agency and voice and promote inclusion, diversity, and equity. Twig comprises a team of teachers, filmmakers, writers, researchers, designers, academics, and students, all working together to create exciting and effective student learning experiences.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

eSchool News

In a conversation with Education Week , Bdeir said schools need to find ways to make science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) education more fun, engaging, and accessible for students. “I “We want to unleash the inventor in everyone,” Bdeir said. We need to find ways of approaching STEAM education differently.”.

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Where Classroom Design Meets Design Thinking

Edsurge

Yet the impulse to tackle aesthetics first is often premature, according to Rebecca Hare, who teaches art and design in St. Louis and has served as a design consultant for various schools. Everybody comes to me with the catalog and says, ‘We love these tables, what do you think?’

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Student data for one group of students : Some studies include only one group of students—for example, providing teachers with an online reading curriculum to try out with students and describing change between state English language arts tests administered before and after using the curriculum.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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