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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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I knew three days of planning wouldn’t be enough to design flexible curriculum that could empower every student to have an “aha!” Unfortunately, the feeling that there’s never enough time to write and adjust curriculum is a major source of frustration and a bitter reality for teachers across the United States.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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I always envied how he could talk, tell stories, and write about big ideas in simple, jargon-free terms. Any of his speeches or writings make you think for hours, days, years! What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. But his aren’t run-of-the-mill ideas. Constructionism.

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New Provider Offers Low-Cost Online Courses. But Will the Credit Transfer?

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While MasterClass offers taped lectures on cooking by chef Gordon Ramsay, guitar shredding by musician Carlos Santana and creative writing by youth fiction author Judy Blume, the first Outlier courses teach calculus I and introductory psychology. Although the Outlier topics are decidedly more staid, they may serve a higher purpose.

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Do Virtual Schools Flatten Cultural Identity? Or Expand It?

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Rethinking Curriculum: From Global to Glocal One of the most powerful levers of cultural identity in K12 online education is the curriculum. Traditional schools often teach a national curriculum designed to align with the values, history, and priorities of a specific country. High School Diploma, IB, or British curricula.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

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Aiming to improve Kenyan students’ base math skills, it had distributed over 3 million textbooks, appraised nearly 30,000 teachers, and its national student information system had registered 96 percent of all students nationwide. By 2019, the World Bank’s PRIEDE project had exceeded several of its goals. But “that’s completely changed.