eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

Acknowledge that old mental models exist. Schools need to acknowledge that there are a variety of old mental models of learning and traditional schooling that parents bring to the table. Counselors, social workers, support groups, and outside partnerships have an opportunity to impact the entire school culture.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. According to the authors of a new report, it’s not schools that need a “rethink” as much as school staffing. Yet the authors found challenges as well.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Given the pace of change in higher education today, it should come as no surprise that colleges and universities are investing in research and development labs dedicated to academic and business-model innovation. Done right, these labs have the potential to transform institutional cultures. We identify dependencies and assumptions.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. It’s not enough for a school to simply offer these students computer science classes — teachers like Noriega are working to tear down the invisible mental and cultural barriers that keep Latino students from considering the field altogether.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

They are: Leadership and school culture lay the foundation. Community collaboration and engagement must be woven into the fabric of a school’s culture. Tom and Eric do a great job of citing research in their book, but it would be helpful to have some research-based frameworks and mental models that tie the list items together.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It She agreed that change must be cultural as well as architectural. “I It does not take into account all of the developments that we know about the way people learn.”

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