k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves. The IBs interdisciplinary structure plays a key role. Girls who know how to lead, who understand their strengths, and who carry those skills with them into the world.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

In this context, AI serves as a companion that guides students in their tasks, enhancing their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Encourage students to select supplemental articles relevant to their fields to foster interdisciplinary connections, allowing for both autonomy and current insights in the field.

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Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 88

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

Higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to: Prepare Students for the Future Workforce : By integrating AI into curricula, institutions can equip students with the skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven economy.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 117

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

It introduces career-ready practices as a core element and embraces interdisciplinary learning that mirrors todays job landscape. These arent just add-on skills; theyre essential capabilities for every student, no matter their career goals.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

STEM isnt just the latest teaching topic: Its an innovative, cross-curricular way to strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Build historical machines in interdisciplinary projects 7. Launch STEM learning with bottle rockets 2. Design a buoyant sailboat 5.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

Higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to: Prepare Students for the Future Workforce : By integrating AI into curricula, institutions can equip students with the skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven economy.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 74

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills. Practice writing skills based on the CCSS for history and social studies and your 8th grade history curriculum with tailored prompts. Use prompts aimed toward specific writing skills. What about flies?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Is there a skill you wish you had? Hone debate and research writing skills Can your students back up their opinions? Writing Prompts for Building Skills & the Habit of Revision By Room 213 Grades: 8th-12th Standards: CCSS CCRA.W.5,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2019

Our aim is to emphasize computational thinking and computer science skills, ensure math performance is consistent, and incorporate more real-world, interdisciplinary learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Such a position can help frame classroom assignments as interdisciplinary tasks and projects that require knowledge from other classes and other subjects. We use an interdisciplinary approach to the STEAM education we provide in our Digital Explorers program. Few mistakes are corrected.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This ambitious undertaking demands technical expertise and embodies the true essence of interdisciplinary collaboration. This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to address Mars’s multifaceted challenges. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Right now, the closest we can come to that is training peers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This understanding has deepened through my collaboration with Kathy Renfrew, whose journey from a self-proclaimed science-phobic classroom teacher to renowned STEM educator and leader illustrates the transformation that happens when educators break down traditional subject-area barriers and create truly interdisciplinary units.

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STEM Science Interdisciplinary Teachers 286

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

This ambitious undertaking demands technical expertise and embodies the true essence of interdisciplinary collaboration. This requires the seamless integration of knowledge and skills across various disciplines to address Mars’s multifaceted challenges. Our mission: establish a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet.

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Interdisciplinary Study Multidisciplinary Students 98

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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Curriculum Interdisciplinary Art STEM 363

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In addition, interdisciplinary collaboration at our weekly professional learning communities (PLCs) has strengthened this process. to ensure students build skills in connected and meaningful ways. This allowed them to feel and have tremendous ownership over their learning. teaching math vocabulary, chunking word-problems, etc.)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Our data-driven insights reveal significant disparities that must be addressed to cultivate a diverse and skilled workforce prepared for the demands of the future economy,” said Amy Miller-Weiland, Vice President of Professional Services and Learning and Development at YouScience.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Exploring diverse writing exercises, experimenting with different perspectives, and seeking inspiration from various sources can cultivate creativity and enhance essay writing skills, with the option to have professionals write me an essay providing valuable insights and further honing one’s craft. Start small.

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Essay Writing Skills Interdisciplinary 167

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Esports is also a powerful method for interdisciplinary collaboration across campus. Efforts like Good in Gaming are establishing pathways for gamers to develop their STEAM knowledge and skills needed to translate them into a career.

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Interdisciplinary Art Math Knowledge 286

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

And we are only at the dawn — the transformation underway will redefine the essential skills needed for America’s students to keep up,” said Alex Kotran, co-founder CEO of aiEDU. AI Readiness, which aiEDU defines as the ability and underlying skills to apply AI Literacy to one’s professional and personal endeavors.

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Interdisciplinary Education Ethics Evaluation 284

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This process reinforces scientific inquiry and builds critical thinking skills as students see, touch, and analyze real results from their experiments. Here are five strategies teachers can take to make STEM come alive in their classrooms. Teachers can encourage students to make predictions, hypothesize outcomes, and document results.

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Middle School Middle School STEM Interdisciplinary 333

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

More than half of today’s students will hold jobs that don’t yet exist today, which is why it is critically important for students to develop 21st-century skills such as creativity and problem solving.

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Interdisciplinary Art Critical Thinking Language 271

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Across the country, more and more schools are implementing project-based learning and forging partnerships with businesses to help students build real-world skills to succeed in college and the workforce. Professionals mentor students and guide them as they innovate, develop entrepreneurial skills and real-world experience.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Social Studies Curriculum Design 272

eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

STEM is incredibly important, specifically for skills like critical thinking and problem solving,” said Dr. Erika Neuman, CEO of iSTEMmentors and a lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio, during an ISTELive 24 session. Though many teachers tout the importance of STEM learning, many also shy away from the “E” in STEM.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Lecturing 311

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This approach grounds their understanding of core principles and promotes collaboration and teamwork–essential lifelong learning skills. Integrating STEM into K-12 curricula helps prepare students for a world that increasingly depends on interdisciplinary knowledge.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Education Critical Thinking 294

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Scientists conduct inquiries using a specific toolbox of skills and knowledge that the Next Generations Science Standards (NGSS) has spelled out for emerging scientists as so-called “science and engineering practices,” or practices that increase in complexity and sophistication across grade levels.

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STEM Laboratory Interdisciplinary Knowledge 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Yaw Osei Adutwum shared his vision to introduce science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics education to all students, educators and education leaders across Ghana in order to inspire, explore, and develop their skills and, most importantly, to allow them to fulfill their potential,” said Doitch. About Intelitek.

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Interdisciplinary Instructors Art Interactive Learning 306

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2020

Designed to be part of a student’s learning experience, these interdisciplinary courses engage students in rich content, applicable skills, and center around a Community Impact Project. Linked to content and skills connected to the course, middle school students will experience a relevant and engaging learning experience.”.

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Science Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 246

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Even if a student doesn’t select a career in STEM, the soft skills they will learn at a STEM-focused school (critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving and more) will serve them well in whatever they choose to do in life. All the while, they are also practicing life skills such as teamwork, leadership, and public speaking.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Schools Fairness 321

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms. The benefits of STEAM education and STEM learning help students develop much-needed skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration.

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STEM Education Laboratory Art 325

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data Science for Everyone is a coalition advancing data science education so that every K-12 student has the data literacy skills needed to succeed in our modern world. Equitable access to data science education is an opportunity to open doors to higher education, high-paying careers, and an engaged community.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Methods Science Language 286

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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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Interdisciplinary Laboratory Cognitive Development Students 180

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

K-12 learning opportunities must prepare students with the necessary skills to succeed in Industry 4.0. Students need to develop technological skills combined with critical, creative and social-emotional mindsets to solve complex problems and succeed in today’s postsecondary environment and workforce.

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Skills Interdisciplinary Learning Science 153

eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

We want to increase their knowledge, skills, and interest in STEM, and balance student-centered teaching with state and national standards. Department of Education, is a rigorous, interdisciplinary, standards-focused method of STEM education that encourages students to develop and share their STEM knowledge and investigations.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Textbooks Lecturing 260

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Adopted by the State Board of Education, the current Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards outline what students will learn in each course/grade.

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Interdisciplinary STEM Science Students 334

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Iowa BIG : A community conversation about the knowledge and skills young people need to become engaged and successful members of the community as adults was linked with an initiative to send 60 community leaders back to school alongside learners over a four-month period. Many electives take advantage of the Village’s flexible format.

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Interdisciplinary Education High School High School 292

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2019

As educators, we are all continuously looking for interdisciplinary learning opportunities that will provide students with the most authentic learning experiences possible. With students’ hyper-exposure to the growing applications for technology, STEAM programs are one area in which real-world applications are readily apparent to students.

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Curriculum Interdisciplinary Instructors Exams 279