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APRIL 29, 2021

Developments in Education Over the past 10 years, states across the nation have adopted new standards in all content areas. To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning. CTE Gets a Bad Rap All U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

But he says the conversations often fell off once he suggested adding subjects like history of science, philosophy or communication. Very few of them had any interest in interdisciplinary programs,” is how he remembers it. These days a growing number of people are concerned with bringing more talk of ethics into technology.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2022

After building relational trust, local community members share resources and context on local issues and history that I use to create lessons. I’ve seen educators share power with community members by inviting them to talk about their expertise directly with students, or by taking learners to specific places within their community.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Real-time technology like Epic Games' Unreal Engine has emerged as a successful tool and resource to implement this type of teaching and learning. We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am by no means a game designer.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. Kiddom is just a one education technology company. STEAM , the CCLS ELA standards, etc.),

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language. No longer confined to a corner space in the back of the library, Making activities are finding their way into lessons on history and biology, literature and language.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2017, the College Board began working with researchers at the African Diaspora Consortium to identify relevant educational content for a diaspora curriculum. “The The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature? Math is this general-purpose subject at school, but if it isn’t interdisciplinary, well, why not? If it isn’t serving history, English, geography and all the other subjects, why not? Absolutely. It might be looking at the linguistics of a novel.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence. In it, he reflects on the interdisciplinary work he did that led to his theory of multiple intelligences.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2018

The new partnership with Carnegie aligns with the Smithsonian center’s growing digital ambitions, says O’Donnell, who aims to pair her group’s expertise in science and engineering education with Carnegie’s experience in building online, adaptive math programs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Construct a Hypothesis Through our school model, students experience hands-on interdisciplinary learning through projects, or expeditions, as we call them, that each last 10 to 12 weeks and require students to tackle real world problems that don’t have easy paths to solutions or one right answer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Manegold says that teachers have already been using Minecraft to teach subjects such as History and Engineering by having students recreate three-dimensional replicas of ancient ruins, and he sees the addition of coding expanding the opportunities for educators to use the software for interdisciplinary learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

In parallel, though, we also need to double down on “softening” schools—to focus on building social emotional skills of students and educators and strengthen relationships between students and educators. Most had a history of school disciplinary infactionsactions. Secret Service in 2019. Most communicated their intent to attack.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

The linear, factory system of education is counter to the messy, irregular, and creative learning process that our students have grown accustomed to outside of school. We are in the midst of one of the most disruptive, yet exciting times in history: The Information Age. Life is irregular—thus, learning is irregular.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. As the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying voter behavior. We most directly engage education and psychology. We used to spend a lot more school time on civic education. What can fields other than political science tell us about young voters?

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

For more education technology events, check out our 2019 calendars: U.S. ASU GSV Summit If there was any doubt, this year’s event put it to rest: ASU GSV Summit is the must-attend conference for education technology investment, with business deals and policy issues buttressing the financial focus. K-12 Events U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

And this year’s predictions range from the abstract, such as “advancing cultures of innovation,” to more specific ones like an increasing appearance of new interdisciplinary studies on campus. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Before the pandemic, like many of my peers, I had been a great believer of the lecture hall, with its sense of tradition and history. This is the time to put “interdisciplinary” ideas into practice by experimenting with new methodologies. The ability to enter and exit at will equalizes power.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Before the pandemic, like many of my peers, I had been a great believer of the lecture hall, with its sense of tradition and history. This is the time to put “interdisciplinary” ideas into practice by experimenting with new methodologies. The ability to enter and exit at will equalizes power.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

And his work draws from his experiences in school, weaving across the realms of interdisciplinary thinking, social-emotional learning, self care, and the steady search for creativity on a human scale. It’s an approach that is intuitively connected to the evolving priorities of conscientious educators and schools around the world.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The pivotal school project which facilitated Thomas’ gradual withdrawal from the alt-right was a museum exhibit he curated to illustrate the history of Syrian refugees fleeing into Greece—a complex topic with conflicting sources of information.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. Some said that simply being asked what they think about their high school had already improved their perceptions about education. And evidence about whether DC + XQ’s work makes a lasting difference in the lives of D.C.

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Teach Your Kids

MARCH 8, 2025

33 extraordinary women shaping our world Founders Mickey Revenaugh - Co-founder of Connections Academy, she helped pioneer virtual public schooling, expanding access to high-quality online education for K-12 students. history programs, designed to provide a more inclusive and accurate perspective on American history for homeschool families.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2021

2020 will be recorded in the history books as a year of deep tragedies, inequities and heartache. We hope it will also be remembered as the year education broke free of the four walls of our school buildings and embraced the healthy, fresh air outside. Our approach is multifaceted and interdisciplinary.

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