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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

Providing students with choices to transfer and apply their learning encourages deeper thinking and enhances their ability to communicate their understanding effectively. These choices promote active engagement, critical thinking, and the ability to connect and apply concepts in various contexts.

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Asking the right questions: Unlocking the full potential of AI tools

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Whether a student is researching climate change, drafting an essay, or solving a coding problem, the ability to craft clear, thoughtful, and precise questions makes all the difference. In math, they might refine their query from, How do I solve this problem? to What strategies can I use to simplify quadratic equations?

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Standardized tests are pests—here’s why

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By constraining students to short-stories (designed to mimic the test format), we risk stifling their exploration of diverse genres, complex characters, and critical thinking skills that occurs within the context of experiencing a well-crafted novel.

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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

Edsurge

One reason for that, he argues, is that it’s easier to measure how much students are learning in math and science by using standardized tests that can be quickly graded by machines. It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it.

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Why this one STEM course has four different teachers

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Years ago, application meant a comprehensive exam or essay. They’ll be huddled up in small groups, collaborating, brainstorming, critically thinking about how to solve the world’s problems. A STEM rotation model engages students in multifaceted projects with real-world implications.

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Rosetta Stone Announces Winners of the Emergent Bilingual Educators of the Year Award Program

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Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students. Runner-up McGrath wrote in his essay , “Parent-Teacher Conferences are a big part of our school year. The essays submitted by these entrants were incredibly inspiring. About Rosetta Stone.

Essay 162
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Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs

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Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay.

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