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Twig Education Announces Launch of Twig Create Multimedia Makerspace

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With Twig Create, students become authors as they actively construct meaning through contextual storytelling that encompasses discussion, presentation, critical thinking, and teamwork. These lessons are mapped to ELA and ELD/WIDA standards, as well as NGSS, Social Studies, and ISTE standards as appropriate.

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

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With the support of a teacher or parent as facilitator, students research, design, plan, implement, and reflect on their learning. It allows us to reach students with high-level thinking and reasoning, regardless of their reading level. Students decide what they want to learn and/or do.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

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The project-based curriculum has students brainstorm, research, design, and develop a new product, then pitch it to “investors” during a class Pitch Night. Along the way, students valuable entrepreneurial skills, VentureLab says—including the 4 Cs: creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration.

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Getting Older Students Excited About Science Class

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Hands-on Experiments Conducting more hands-on experiments is a great way to make science class more fun, and it will help reinforce science concepts as well as help students develop essential skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration.

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Using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Framework to Examine an Authentic Project-based Research Symposium

Faculty Focus

The courses that focus on research are foundational for social sciences majors. For many students in these courses, it is their first exposure to learning and applying the process of scientific inquiry, critical thinking and analysis, research and design, literature review, and statistical analysis.