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From DC Chancellor to Edtech Founder: Kaya Henderson on Her New Venture in Culturally-Relevant Education

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I want teachers and tutors and curriculum designers to be free to do the things that we think are good and right for kids. I think the first thing that we screen for in our instructors is a real belief that, like [American philosopher and activist] Cornel West says, “You can’t serve the people if you don’t love the people.”

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

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Both women are committed to making education more equitable and technology fields more diverse, especially in the face of a pandemic that has disproportionately affected the populations they seek to elevate. Tanner: First we centered the students themselves in our design process. I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.”

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

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In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. She obtained her PhD in chemistry education from Bremen University/Germany.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

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Siham Al Amoush is an experienced educator specializing in teacher education and higher education professional development, she obtained her PhD in Chemistry Education from Bremen University, where she researched and compared teacher beliefs in Jordan, Turkey, and Germany.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. She obtained her PhD in chemistry education from Bremen University/Germany.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

Siham Al Amoush is an experienced educator specializing in teacher education and higher education professional development, she obtained her PhD in Chemistry Education from Bremen University, where she researched and compared teacher beliefs in Jordan, Turkey, and Germany.