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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. Because creating breakthrough, systematic innovations in education is challenging.

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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In almost any school in the country today, you can find an app or program that claims to change education as we know it. As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system.

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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If education researchers hope to see more of their findings influence everyday learning and instruction—and they desperately do—then their best bet may be to encourage education technologists to hone their design research skills. Why the Research Black Hole ? Why is this so?

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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I believe expert educators in history, arts, science, and many more classrooms are poised to do the same this year. High Hope #4: Cleanly Curated Open Education Resources In order for high quality OERs to be combined with high quality instructional design, teachers need tools that allow them to curate the resources.

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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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The purpose of Engineers Week is as much to celebrate engineers as to increase public dialogue, in that way bringing them to life for kids, educators, and parents. “93% of DiscoverE educators think an engineer’s presence helps STEM students.” ” Education Applications. Future City. Global Day.

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

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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. Dream : What do you hope to accomplish based on your research?

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. While some educators rightfully voice concerns over the ethical aspects of such a tool, this article will draw on my own experiences using ChatGPT 4.0

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