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Labster Secures $47M in New Funding Tranche to Expand Global Opportunities for Virtual Science Laboratory Simulations

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COPENHAGEN and BOSTON – April 6, 2022 – Labster ( www.labster.com ), the world’s leading platform for virtual labs and interactive science, has raised $47 million in additional funding to support massive growth opportunities worldwide. Science education is traditionally so ineffective that 60% of STEM students drop out.

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How a New Approach to Early Childhood Could Avert a ‘Public Policy Catastrophe’

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And why, in spite of the decades of brain science we now have, is it still so deeply held? But the idea that we need to build our policy around the idea that we hope that children will come to kindergarten ‘ready to learn,’ as if kindergarten is where learning actually begins, is really contradicted by decades of brain science at this point.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

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For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.

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43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year

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— Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure. This kind of playful experimentation is essential in the classroom.

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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But the challenges and constraints of practical educational settings mean laboratory-based findings don’t readily translate into the kinds of practices, resources and tools that can meaningfully improve teaching and learning. We believe this to be an astounding moral failure.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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It is based on and necessitates analyzing one’s theories of teaching and learning, the alignment of these theories with the class experience, and critically assessing the student, teacher, and class experience along with successes and failures (Brookfield, 1998). References Brookfield, Stephen. “Critically reflective practice.”

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