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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.

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JULY 2, 2024

The sets model conceptualization, a skill that includes distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and using primary sources to generate and refine research questions. These collections of resources provide instructors ready-made materials for discussion or a reference point for students to use in expanding their research questions.

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APRIL 6, 2017

For Puri, that is the next level of AI—its ability to not only say what something is, but to reason and understand the intent of its being, to answer the ‘why’ question. They ask questions because they are not shy,” says IBM Watson’s Chief Architect, Dr. Ruchir Puri, in an interview with EdSurge. Working with kids gives you grounding.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

That was the provocative question posed by Conrad Wolfram in a blog post earlier this summer. And then a bit later we have questions like, “Are Girls Better at Math?” As you see, these thing are quite fuzzy, they’re not like traditional math questions. Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature?

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JUNE 5, 2020

Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such. That means more exercises that allow for open-ended answers, and less abstract questions that simply ask one to “solve for x ,” says Meyer. It’s also not entirely digital.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Educators and school leaders have brought his ideas to life in various ways, including experimental K-12 schools that have focused on developing these different intelligences in students. In it, he reflects on the interdisciplinary work he did that led to his theory of multiple intelligences. What is really crucial?

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Challenging the assumptions about how we approach instructional design is one of the goals of a new graduate degree program at Georgetown University ; we hope to help students explore new ways of thinking about learning design, educational technology, and integrated and inclusive pedagogies in higher education.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s popular these days to argue that a pandemic boost of online education will lead to a wave of college closures. But this kind of rhetoric irks Clay Shirky, the vice provost for educational technologies at New York University and an influential voice on how technology is changing our culture.

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MAY 15, 2023

And it becomes this interdisciplinary lesson—part science, part math, part writing—where the students learn cause-and-effect problem solving. I try to teach my students to question more critically and use AI as a tool—but not a full answer. AI isn’t going away.

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JULY 30, 2018

From traditional activities to authentic work: Moving from isolated academic work environments to providing students opportunities to engage with and contribute to relevant local, national, and international interdisciplinary communities. These include: Deeper learning.

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MARCH 29, 2023

There is no question that today’s schools are filled with digitally savvy children who have grown up with technology and the internet of things. Need your computer hooked up to the projector? There is a good chance at least one student can do it for you. Need help getting the WiFi booster to work properly? Ask a student.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrated Actions Civics Project: developed between The UC Berkeley History Social Science Project and the Santa Clara and San Mateo county offices of education, this project offers tested strategies to support the integration of civic engagement into classrooms.

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MARCH 1, 2018

Those were just a couple of the questions raised on Tuesday, February 27 when the #DLNchat community got together to discuss: What Is the Role of Libraries in Digital Learning Innovation? The #DLNchat community named a few: learning commons, makerspaces, research showcase experiences and space for interdisciplinary discovery among faculty.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Camhi, Superintendent of Schools, Baldwin School District As someone who has been in education long enough to be considered vintage and to see major pedagogical shifts, I always wonder when the next big change will come. After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? With the rise of AI comes AR/VR.

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JUNE 21, 2017

According to the Education Commission of States, about 20 states now require that districts allow students to apply specified computer science courses toward completion of mathematics, science or, as a foreign language. This is the question that researchers at the MIT Media Lab are asking. How is that community? How is that community?”

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JANUARY 18, 2019

I encourage students to push back and ask questions, but it was getting to a point where frustration was creeping in for both of us. She was struggling to understand why we do projects the way we do in school and she said that stemmed from an even broader question she was noodling on: why is school set up the way it is?

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MARCH 31, 2021

history and civics to be studied in an interdisciplinary manner. While the EAD roadmap is not a curriculum, it does provide thematic questions anchored both in history and civics, which educators can use to guide curricular and pedagogical decisions. I am most inspired by the EAD’s acknowledgement and focus on the need for U.S.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

That is the most common question I hear all the time,” says Herrera, who is a speech and debate coach and co-teaches AP Seminar at Henry Grady High School. The complexities of the Diaspora are an excellent fit with AP Seminar’s interdisciplinary research focus. Why am I just learning about this?’

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

At my school, we created an ambassador program that identified technologically savvy faculty in each department to support colleagues and integrate technology. These individuals (dubbed Tech Deputies ), field questions, troubleshoot and help plan lessons.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

These questions grounded discussions at last weekend’s annual Education Writers Association. higher education seminar. It would seem then that grants favored the interdisciplinary approach, but. Is there a limit or consensus to what innovation actually means? Then there’s Deep Springs College.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

What if I could do more interdisciplinary work or give credit for learning that happens outside my classroom? These aren’t questions for the bargaining table, but for entire communities to address. What if I found the time to know every student on a more personal level?

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JULY 13, 2017

In 2008, Heidi Williams, author of the book “No Fear Coding,” began asking herself some retrospective questions about her role as a teacher at an International Baccalaureate School in Racine, Wisc. So how do we elevate the status of teaching and educating in this country so that people really understand what we do?”

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JULY 6, 2019

I realized then what’s always been true: meaningful, authentic learning is connected and interdisciplinary by nature, and communities thrive when there’s social care at the core. No longer are social-emotional learning and edtech siloed, or even separate entities. In a way, you could say it’s all connected.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

That’s different than the standard delivery of text and multiple choice questions. But now we’re in a knowledge revolution where the workforce needs to have a deeper set of skills and more interdisciplinary and collaborative problem solving. One thing we do is build agents that hold a conversation in natural language.

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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. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

And one question being asked by pundits and politicos is, how can we motivate young voters to show up at the polls? But a book published earlier this year by two political scientists tweaks that question. The answer has implications for political campaigns, policymakers and of course for educators.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Ask a Question Two Rivers was founded on the principle that we need to embrace a broader definition of student success than what has been handed to us by state and national policy. Problem Solving: The ability to identify the key questions in a problem, develop possible paths to a solution, and follow through with a solution.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

2018) When I began shaping our research questions, I immediately recognized that my greatest challenge would be that studying all four areas required a diverse team of researchers from a range of fields. Conceptual model of the elements of whole teacher well-being; Credit: The Happy Teacher Project (Kwon et al.,

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Everything is interdisciplinary,” explained Stephanie Passman, the lead teacher, during EdSurge’s recent visit to the school. But it's a valid question." But it's a valid question,” she said. In this new model, learning looks a lot like playing. “We We don't have separated subject areas in our school.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science. outspoken critic of assessing with grades , speak to a group of hundreds of New Tech educators. Many years back, I heard Alfie Kohn, an.

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MAY 16, 2022

Uniquely, Berumen’s school looks at all four years of a student’s high school transcript, and an essay question hones in on how a particular applicant meets its “core values” in an attempt to separate students excited by Pitzer itself from those looking for a generic liberal arts education. (In

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

Yale is one of about 20 colleges participating in the HP/Educause Campus of the Future project investigating the use of this technology in higher education. You’re trying to answer questions and you’re not asking them,” Berry says. If you leave VR and AR in the hands of technologists alone, “you lose something really important.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. PEEK INSIDE COLLEGE CLASSROOMS: Discover interdisciplinary teaching insights from our growing community of college educators.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I had no idea what it was, but the more I spoke with her and asked her questions, I thought, That sounds pretty cool. In the medical setting, you get more parent contact because they're the ones bringing the patient to the clinic, whereas in the schools, you get more interdisciplinary contact and less with the parents. I embraced it.

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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. Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats.

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