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How learning science informs edtech product development

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More often than not, these are the tools that have prioritized learning science in their product design, to guide product vision and focus. Aligning your Development Team Aligning your team around key educational outcomes is the first step towards integrating learning science into the product development process.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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It also connects to other issues, such as the rigid class sequences that some experts warn block certain students from advancing in math and that exclude courses like data science that would be useful for students future careers. She is the director of curriculum for NAF, a nonprofit that is trying to make education more career-focused.

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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?

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The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage. Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests.

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What Science Classes Are Teaching Students About Coronavirus

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To help her eighth graders better understand how infectious diseases such as the coronavirus spread, science teacher Christine Witcher adapted a lesson from an unlikely source: a baby shower game. They want to get into the science and why it’s happening.” That seems to help in making it more fun and giving them some agency around it.”

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Computer Science Course Offerings in High School Spur More Students to Coding Degrees

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In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. The study found that taking a computer science course had the greatest impact for female students, Black students and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

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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. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.

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Can Third Graders Learn Data Science? These Researchers Say Yes

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If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives. I think that education can’t come early enough, and we're hoping the materials are low enough hanging fruit so educators can use them.”

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