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The school that connects STEM, badging, and life beyond the classroom

eSchool News

(We began referring to our students as scholars, because we expected that they take an active approach to their education, and participate in interdisciplinary project-based learning, and internships.)

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

eSchool News

In these STEM laboratories, students can develop their science, engineering, and mathematics skills by using technology to create, collaborate, and complete projects–learning and applying knowledge to find new solutions. These educational spaces encourage active learning and problem solving. So, what’s the impact of STEAM education?

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. Do graduate students themselves want to pursue interdisciplinary aims and become “wicked”? Those who have enrolled in intentionally interdisciplinary Ph.D.

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Big Deals: Making AI Safe; New STEM Platforms; How To Fix Learning Loss

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” ESUSD’s AI Policy Lab is designed as a collaborative, interdisciplinary partnership that encourages responsible AI development, deployment, and usage. An interdisciplinary and international team assembled at CSHL’s Banbury Center to address the challenges of short STEM training programs.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. Practical Learning Scientific research involves several ground realities and interdisciplinary aspects that students and the general public are not exposed to.

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A New Architecture for the University Campus of the Future

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The Center provides spaces for innovative and interdisciplinary teaching and learning where students can learn in novel formats, develop and prototype new products and services through a design-thinking approach, and collaborate. Its new Academic Innovation Center (AIC) opened just this past fall. Many universities have tiered classrooms.

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

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This new age of teaching and learning will be more integrated into the day-to-day, more interdisciplinary, and more based on the lived experience of the teacher and student. Leaders in education now have the opportunity to leverage GenAI to accelerate the transformation of data into feedback for students across subjects.

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