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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? How Harmless?

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How to Go Back to School, Higher-Ed Leadership Edition

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You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni, My question is how to prepare yourself for a doctorate in leadership in higher ed, even when you are over 50! Maureen McLaughlin, returning student While this column typically is focused on teaching, it is great to get to have it shift to learning for this question.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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Drawing on our own positive educational experiences, our goal is to create a space where PSTs feel they can ask questions and seek support (math-related or otherwise) as they begin their journey through teacher education. Cultivate dynamic spaces where PSTs can ask questions and seek help. makes PSTs the expert in the room.

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

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When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

Drawing on our own positive educational experiences, our goal is to create a space where PSTs feel they can ask questions and seek support (math-related or otherwise) as they begin their journey through teacher education. Cultivate dynamic spaces where PSTs can ask questions and seek help. makes PSTs the expert in the room.

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When Students Don’t Like What They’re Doing: Applications for Group Work

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Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment? However, teachers can require students to do what they don’t like, and if they want the grade, the credential, or the degree, students will do it. is both no and yes” (p.

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When Students Don’t Like What They’re Doing: Applications for Group Work

Faculty Focus

Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment? However, teachers can require students to do what they don’t like, and if they want the grade, the credential, or the degree, students will do it. is both no and yes” (p.