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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. But technology-enabled tools that aim to deliver language instruction at scale are also building incentives into their systems to help learners make more progress.

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Discovery Education, Caterpillar Foundation, and Learning Undefeated Launch New Initiative to Inspire Next Generation of STEM Professionals

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The content will equip students with the right skills and knowledge to pursue STEM careers at home, in the classroom, or wherever learning takes place. Students are naturally creative and curious, using play as a universal language. The future STEM innovators are sitting in classrooms all across the country.

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The Answer Within—Making Language Personal

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Yes, they are speaking Spanish, but if you watch carefully, you will see the gestures they make and the body language they use to negotiate meaning and guide one another in the complicated dance that is speaking a second language. In my Spanish Language Acquisition course, this is what is meant by personalized learning.

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Teaching Students to Make Good Choices in an Algorithm-Driven World

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In contrast, AI centers, like the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, have largely focused on high-end, specialized training for graduate students in complex mathematical and computer engineering fields. There’s a clue in a statement from the Davis Institute’s first director , natural language processing expert Amanda Stent.

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Should Schools Teach the Scientific Method? New Book Says Maybe Not

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There is some very colorful language about the scientific method they teach in schools, and it caught my eye. They said, students should work in laboratories and do science to learn science. That was the beginning of the laboratory method. It leads to a shift to focus on content knowledge because it’s easy to assess.

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How to Make Education Research Relevant to Teachers

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Many told us they felt that their professional knowledge is all too often neglected in education research and, to use a common phrasing, that research was “done to them not with them.” Regional education laboratories: $55,423,000. We’re cleaning up the jargon in our language and issuing shorter, more readable reports.

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How Brooklyn LAB Charter School is Integrating Non Academic Habits into the Classroom

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At Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (LAB), the school’s co-founders, Erin Mote and Eric Tucker, are constantly on a quest to innovate and welcome the opportunity to iterate as they grow. Building a Common Language Across Academic and Non-Academic Learning Experiences For LAB, redefining student success has been a gradual evolution.

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