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 Learning Without Tears Scores Big in 2023 EdTech Awards

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We are all proud of the innovative work our development teams did to create – and continuously improve – these breakthrough learning programs.” Celebrating its 13 th year, the US-based EdTech Awards program is the world’s largest recognition program for education technology, recognizing the strongest EdTech solutions.

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K-12 Class Sizes Have Ballooned With Online Learning. It’s Not a Good Thing.

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In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added.

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

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The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

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So what was the optimal way to form a group? Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. Likewise, having students set their own groups was a dumpster fire — that was not conducive to thinking. This is human nature.

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A Team Effort: Educators Collaborate to Bring AI Into K-12 Classes

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We spoke with this dynamic group of educators about how the AI Explorations course helped reshape and expand their efforts to integrate AI tools and teaching into K-12 classrooms. We see each other on Zoom meetings or chat on our WebEx channel, but this was an opportunity to get a group working together that was really diverse.

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In Washington’s Most Diverse District, STEM Opportunities Provide New Paths to Success

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Each area feeds into one comprehensive high school with a variety of Career and Technical Education STEM/STEAM pathways including computer science, engineering, environmental science, health science, and manufacturing and construction. Problem/Project based learning.

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Sir Ken Robinson’s Next Act: You Are the System and You Can Change Education

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How should both groups work together? It’s interesting of course that at some levels the issues that educators face are global in character. I was looking recently at a school called Orchard Gardens in Massachusetts, which I talk about in the new book. A sink school that nobody wanted to send their kids to.

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