Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2017

I am a scientist—and I’ll be speaking at today’s March for Science in Washington D.C. Science is the human quest to understand. Science is a full contact sport. Best of all, these technologies can transform education. And something needs to—because science education faces a challenge. According to.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Antonio’s mother had been in touch with his science teacher and was brave enough to allow her son to hatch praying mantis eggs in their basement as part of his research. Antonio was just one of the memorable students in my first science research class at Christ the King Regional High School, a parochial school in Queens, New York.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And just as our eight-person research team was about to launch our years-in-the-making classroom intervention to boost science outcomes, the pandemic changed everything. However, unanticipated roadblocks tested our own resolve—giving us our own experience of struggling through science. Record levels of anxiety, depression, stress.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Tables are covered with high-tech laboratory equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, autoclaves, and laboratory water baths. Then each topic gets intertwined with biotechnology. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Think back to what you still remember from science class. Instead, consider the idea that spanned any science class from biology to physics: the scientific method, the five-step process for analyzing problems, collecting data and coming to a well-supported conclusion. Science was then taught as the facts of the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. programs that are interdisciplinary from the ground up, such as those sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program. They sure do!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In contrast, AI centers, like the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, have largely focused on high-end, specialized training for graduate students in complex mathematical and computer engineering fields. The role of these institutions has been to broadly train undergraduates for living in a democratic society.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Growing demand for mixed reality content, to increase engagement, has sparked a wave of creativity in how immersive tools are used in the classroom, especially in traditionally abstract topics such as math and computer science. . Success at these higher education institutions is trickling down to the K–12 level. We have limited time.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

This is especially the case when it comes to education technology and curricular innovation. The DIG team identified and prioritized additional needs and quickly added members with expertise in user experience design, behavioral science, data science, software development and innovation advocacy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute. government.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

Matt’s Maker Space is a place where kids can explore science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) through experiential and hands-on learning. Science is all about experimentation. Take the World’s Largest Matt’s Maker Space for example, which will be hosted by Mt. Interested in innovative spaces?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

educators and researchers tried getting to the bottom of the issue, which they summed up as a translation problem. The event, organized by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)—the U.S. Nearly 80 percent of those surveyed agree that educators should influence the topics covered in education research.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

When Melissa Hardy took over a biology laboratory class at Salt Lake Community College, she inherited a commercial lab manual that left much to be desired. It was out of date. It didn’t align with the structure of her course. With each lab experiment Hardy improves, she is working to spare them that expense.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

Congress is proposing an innovative approach to building the federal technology talent pipeline for computer science roles, one that should be exciting for schools and students. Intel called the bill “central to the education and development of the future U.S. On June 14, 2019, Reps. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Tx.), Rob Bishop (R-Ut.),

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the upcoming school year, we can expect more educators and counselors to focus on aligning their students’ educational experiences with the demands of the job market so that they are better prepared to pursue college and/or career pathways that will empower them to succeed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

And why, in spite of the decades of brain science we now have, is it still so deeply held? Not terribly long ago, even kindergarten wasn't a part of many public education systems. And so our systems were created, in many cases, before the science was well entrenched. Where did that misconception come from? No question.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

A report issued by the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) and Bay View Analytics, “ Teaching Online: STEM Education in the Time of COVID ,” examined how STEM educators handled the abrupt transition to online instruction. Thirty-five percent of those faculty said they’d had no online course experience before the pandemic. Not so fast.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another. Science [standards] followed that idea. The most important thing we do in social studies education is prepare citizens to live in a diverse democracy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Now here’s something we’re realizing about our current education research: Too few educators feel that the research that the US government supports has a tangible impact on their work in the classroom. Last March, I was appointed as Director of the Institute of Education Sciences. That’s something that has to change.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2020

A law major at the Macau University of Science and Technology, Jiang Dong said most of her courses have been live-streamed via Zoom. I’m still missing one credit for physical education class, and two for my science and technology requirements,” Jiang said. “We The school library and laboratories are available.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

It’s an interaction that might have seemed like science fiction a couple of years ago. I've always been fascinated by, ‘What could we learn potentially from technology?’ I don't think it's able to do the full job, but I think that the technology is improving so fast that you definitely will never say never.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

California’s community colleges sit at the intersection of higher education, regional economies, and workforce development. the statewide network will be positioned as a strategic educational pipeline for high-value jobs. Many students are drawn to Laney’s Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab), for various reasons. Makerspace: FabLab.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Online Science Simulations: Leverage online science simulations, such as those provided by PhET Interactive Simulations, to allow students to conduct virtual experiments and explore complex scientific concepts in a safe and interactive manner. What is an educational technology tool? What are 5 benefits of technology?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Instead, there will be large open spaces for laboratories, and areas designed for students to work in groups. The goal is to create a major research university from scratch, but one that breaks down traditional disciplinary barriers and focuses more on experiential and project-based learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Classrooms and lecture halls may, over time, fade away and become relics of our educational past. Bryant University, a private university located in Smithfield, Rhode Island with academic programs that integrate business and the arts and sciences with a global perspective, offers a glimpse of what the future of campus design could look like.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Since adult learners are motivated to learn independently, consideration should be given to planning for the use of educational technology that can further increase learner motivation while also helping learners to understand more problem-solving-oriented content tied to real-world problems (Knowles, 1980). Lubrick, M., Corkish, T.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

There are 10 Regional Educational Laboratories , supported by the federal Department of Education, encompassing the states and territories of the U.S. that work in partnership with school districts, state departments of education and others to provide support for a more evidence-reliant education system.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Since adult learners are motivated to learn independently, consideration should be given to planning for the use of educational technology that can further increase learner motivation while also helping learners to understand more problem-solving-oriented content tied to real-world problems (Knowles, 1980). Lubrick, M., Corkish, T.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

Researchers frequently lament how little of even the most robust and replicable educational research permeates actual teaching and studying. The yawning disconnect between the world of educational research and the bustling milieu of the classroom manifests in other ways as well.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

And so began close to 40 years of research and innovation tying together computer technology with ideas about the development of intelligence, knowledge, and learning to learn. In the early ‘60s, Seymour came to MIT and co-founded with Marvin Minsky its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Higher education leaders have been watching Elsevier’s overall strategy with caution—and some concern. Other publishers that the nonprofit has forged agreements with include MIT Press , the American Geophysical Union , the journal ELife , and the pre-print service BioRxiv.org. “We

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Educators are also getting into the fandom, seizing on opportunities the film creates to teach students about empowerment, culture and even the importance of learning science and engineering. And that is a key concept of STEM—finding a problem and developing a solution for that, and it doesn't have to be in the laboratory.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. We started collecting the data for that purpose, and then about that same year when we started OLI, we applied for an NSF grant for a science and learning center. So you shouldn't paint them all with that unethical brush."

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Whiteboard Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For example, instead of saying “science lesson,” specify “8th-grade physics lesson on Newton’s laws of motion.” This could include textbooks, laboratory equipment, art supplies, or access to digital tools. “You are an expert in creating educational content in Science.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. In a paper Koedinger co-published in Science , he found that as instructors consider their course design and teaching options during a typical college course, they’re picking from trillions of possibilities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2024

Those questing for evidence-based education approaches tend to rely on randomized controlled trials, a robust form of study widely used in medicine to establish causation, Simpson notes. In education, that can mean field experiments that show a practice worked in a particular context or laboratory experiments in cognitive science, he says.

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