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New Slate of Inspiring and Engaging Standards-Aligned Content Added to Discovery Education Experience for Back-to-School 2025

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Designed to work alongside innovative product enhancements announced earlier this year , these new resources empower teachers to create personalized learning experiences with inquiry, excitement, and exploration that will hold students attention while challenging them academically.

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Effective Learning with Pre-Laboratory Videos: A Practical Teaching Strategy 

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Much like a carpenter meticulously plans and measures before cutting into wood, pre-laboratory videos provide students with a detailed and visual understanding, serving as an outline to help prepare for upcoming laboratory sessions. 2022; Ouyang et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,

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Effective Learning with Pre-Laboratory Videos: A Practical Teaching Strategy 

Faculty Focus

Much like a carpenter meticulously plans and measures before cutting into wood, pre-laboratory videos provide students with a detailed and visual understanding, serving as an outline to help prepare for upcoming laboratory sessions. 2022; Ouyang et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,

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'Better Every Semester': How Faculty Use Open Educational Resources to Improve Courses

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When Melissa Hardy took over a biology laboratory class at Salt Lake Community College, she inherited a commercial lab manual that left much to be desired. Much of the attention that open educational resources have earned focuses on their low cost. It was out of date. It didn’t align with the structure of her course.

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

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Tables are covered with high-tech laboratory equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, autoclaves, and laboratory water baths. Allowing 35 students to pick their own research projects requires more than Pedersen’s attention. Pedersen says the lack of testing allows more time for laboratory experimentation.

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How to Make Education Research Relevant to Teachers

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For starters, many teachers view research as a search for bright shiny objects pushed by administrators without adequate attention to the needs and skills of teachers. Regional education laboratories: $55,423,000. We’ve found many potholes as we work to shorten the last mile between IES and teachers. Statistics: $109,500,000.

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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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Dueling for Attention Work is not the primary reason people use Duolingo. billion valuation , says the bite-size lessons that its app offers in 36 languages compete largely with social media platforms and mobile games for people’s time and attention. That's the Cadillac version," she says. The company, an edtech “unicorn” with a $1.5