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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. McLaren was preparing to replicate the study in schools in the fall with a different math game. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

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Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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How a Professor of Hip-Hop Is Breaking Boundaries With First Peer-Reviewed Rap Album

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In August, his latest album, “ i used to love to dream ,” became the first rap album to be published by a university press, after going through a formal academic peer-review. It was called “Sketches of My Culture,” and it was an experiment in cultural commentary set to music—West at one point called it “danceable education.”

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A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. But Is It?

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A 2014 research study with a catchy title is often pointed to by those who worry that technology is having unexpected downsides in the classroom. The study has been cited in other peer-reviewed journals more than 1,200 times, according to Google Scholar, and it has been pointed to in op-eds and other popular articles as well.

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Increased Screen Time May Indicate Family Stress, Pandemic Study Suggests

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A new study aims to make sense of these phenomena and draw fresh conclusions about what it really means when kids spend hours looking at cell phones, computers or televisions. Such a large shift in family behavior did not come because millions of parents suddenly “changed their minds about the dangers of screen time,” the study says.

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SIIA Announces Education Technology Finalists for 2023 CODiE Awards

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WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. and globally. The category winners will be announced June.

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Study Finds Classroom-Response 'Clickers' Can ‘Impede Conceptual Understanding’

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Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. But a new study found that the devices can actually work against deeper learning of big-picture concepts.

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