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Personalized Learning, Global Citizenship: A Framework for the Modern Classroom

k12 Digest

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews. Who might be left out?

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Personalized Learning, Global Citizenship: A Framework for the Modern Classroom

k12 Digest

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews. Who might be left out?

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Class Size Matters: Understanding the Link Between Class Size and Student Achievement

eSchool News

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along.

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

Edsurge

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. There is a theory in pedagogy that suggests that human beings cannot focus their attention on a single activity for more than 12 minutes.

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Who’s on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?

Edsurge

While edtech “sales” jobs do garner an admirable amount of attentions, over the past twelve months, “curriculum writer” has risen to the top, capturing more than a fourth of all pageviews. In fact, the word “curriculum,” whether followed by “writer” or designer,” appears to resonate relatively strongly with viewers.

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Promoting AI-Enhanced Performance in the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

To emphasize, research indicates that curriculum designers and university stakeholders need to provide best-practice examples of how to utilize AI tools to effectively and positively promote the use of AI for students advantage (Deroncle-Acosta et al. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

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Curious About Place-Based Education? Let the STAR School Be Your Guide

Edsurge

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. The school is completely “off the grid,” powered by solar panels and wind generators. Students in front of the STAR School's solar panel Why place-based education?

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