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

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In my second year, in an effort to get technology into the hands of the students, foster authentic inquiry, and break the “test-prep” mentality which has come to dominate many a school landscape, I launched Inquiry Fair. She ended up doing an art installation and website on the theme “Rightfully Ours.”

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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. They can’t wait for the next lesson.”.

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

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Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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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. Why focus outside of formal learning time for our design work? The Testing Backdrop.

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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If research is to yield real-world solutions, it will take teachers, students, researchers and technologists working together to dabble, invent and test new ideas. Botanist George Washington Carver took his academic research and translated it into theories that he would test in the fields.