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3 Ways to Shake Up The Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

Online research. Design and create (presentations, infographics, storybooks, etc.) Instead, there are multiple stations designed to challenge students at different skill levels. I design tasks that target that skill at each station, but the degree of challenge is different. Collaborative small group work.

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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. I love the way the CERCA Framework (which stands for Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterargument, Audience) builds students’ critical thinking and argumentative writing skills.

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Twig Science Nevada Approved for Statewide Use

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We’re honored to be able to help teachers all over Nevada ignite students’ natural instinct for inquiry to access that body of knowledge and develop the skills to extend it.”. Tools designed to support student agency and voice and promote inclusion, diversity, and equity.

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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 Professions are changing, and we have to prepare students to be designers and problem solvers” so they can adapt to this changing landscape.

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Where Classroom Design Meets Design Thinking

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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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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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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. is something you care about.

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