eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As educators, we know that science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is a process that enables people to answer questions through scientific inquiry. These are important skills for students to master, not least because of the growing demand for science and STEM professionals.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. What is the value of STEAM education?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

That’s because researchers from the fields of psychology, education and learning sciences apply the tools of science to distinguish what works from what doesn’t. I am a cognitive psychologist, which means that I use science to study mental processes. Our research most often begins in the basic laboratory level.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

We have a plan and we’re ready to progress that plan,” said Calvin McNeil, an Advanced Placement computer science instructor with the University of Florida. Ultimately, the group’s common goal is to ensure students aren’t lagging behind a rapidly evolving workforce that is increasingly centered around AI knowledge.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. Institutions are using virtual reality programs to immerse students in laboratory simulations. But for very good reasons, there’s still a limit to the kind of hands-on science coursework that colleges can, ahem , deliver remotely.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The Museum at Chemical Heritage Foundation boasts more than 250 science kits gathered over 100 years to showcase these “miniature laboratories” for children. These kits are attracting real dollars, too: MEL Science , a company based in the UK, has just raised $2.5 million in Series A funding from Sistema Venture Capital.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2017

Jonah Firestone explores the future of education from a utilitarian laboratory. Firestone, an assistant professor of science education, wants to use the equipment to explore ways that virtual reality can help students, teachers and the education process. You don’t go to downtown Pasco very often, but you can do it virtually,” he said.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Metrasens’ mission is to take cutting-edge science from the laboratory and use it to create revolutionary, award-winning products that meet the distinct and diverse security needs of its customers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Showing students that there are individuals just like them in these high-profile careers has never been easier,” said Tamille Wilson, Fourth Grade Math and Science teacher at Cobb County Schools. In 2022, the Coalition welcomed the following new members Charles River Laboratories, Cox, Inc., Nevada Gold Mines, and PepsiCo Foundation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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. Many of them struggle to hire and retain people who have the technical knowledge and experience to teach in these fields.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Think back to what you still remember from science class. Instead, consider the idea that spanned any science class from biology to physics: the scientific method, the five-step process for analyzing problems, collecting data and coming to a well-supported conclusion. Science was then taught as the facts of the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. Another student expressed that interdisciplinary work “changed my thinking pattern … to a multi-field view” that helped them synthesize between bodies of knowledge and see other facets of the problems they worked on.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

Matt’s Maker Space is a place where kids can explore science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) through experiential and hands-on learning. Science is all about experimentation. Take the World’s Largest Matt’s Maker Space for example, which will be hosted by Mt. Lebanon School District in Pennsylvania on Thursday, May 16.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. From pondering over simple natural processes such as the transitions between day and night to complex genomic studies , science has come a long way. This is where citizen science comes in.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The DIG team identified and prioritized additional needs and quickly added members with expertise in user experience design, behavioral science, data science, software development and innovation advocacy. As we shared our work, new innovators came forward and we quickly realized we needed additional talent to support them.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Growing demand for mixed reality content, to increase engagement, has sparked a wave of creativity in how immersive tools are used in the classroom, especially in traditionally abstract topics such as math and computer science. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 teachers are using VR to teach computer science. by Eli Zimmerman.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

— 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. I am excited to see what’s to come as educators continue to embrace these new tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. We’ve really learned that the most important thing is to keep people motivated,” says Bozena Pajak, director of the learning science team at Duolingo, a language learning app developer. “We

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Last March, I was appointed as Director of the Institute of Education Sciences. 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.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. By utilizing a two-channel approach to deliver instruction, the presenter can use voice and visual hand movement to help the learner codify knowledge (Mayer, 2021). Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

District Superintendent, Ulster BOCES CTE and career readiness As an engineering teacher who runs a hands-on laboratory class, I like to start the year off by exposing my students to all the industry equipment and industry-certified credentials that they will have access to throughout the year. — Jonah M. Schenker, Ed.D., Vrobel, Ed.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboards are a potential solution for helping learners codify more complex knowledge. By utilizing a two-channel approach to deliver instruction, the presenter can use voice and visual hand movement to help the learner codify knowledge (Mayer, 2021). Cognitive load theory states that our working memory is limited (Sweller, et al.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Online Science Simulations: Leverage online science simulations, such as those provided by PhET Interactive Simulations, to allow students to conduct virtual experiments and explore complex scientific concepts in a safe and interactive manner. What is an educational technology tool?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic. Learning Stories.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

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.

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Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Kimberly Ideus , Emporia State University Ning Sui, North Carolina State University Key Statement: Transparency in a lab report template and rubric enhances the scientific integrity for undergraduate biochemistry students in laboratory courses. Medical Science Educator , 31 (2), 753764. We started with a properly formatted title page.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Early approaches in the field of generative AI are situated within 1950s-60s computer science and AI research and “aimed to mimic human expertise to generate outputs” (ChatGPT, 2023). The Christian Science Monitor. Texas professor flunks students after ChatGPT claims it wrote their papers.” The Houston Chronicle. link] ) O’Brien, M.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

One of the key benefits of an OLC is that faculty are given the opportunity to collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise (Tuffnell, 2021). This framework is focused on facilitating collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise, and providing support and guidance to faculty through the OLC. Education Science.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. That actually there's a lot of pedagogical knowledge that has to go into how you teach someone something. Whichever way it is, essentially the system is making a diagnosis. It is making a pedagogical decision.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Educators are also getting into the fandom, seizing on opportunities the film creates to teach students about empowerment, culture and even the importance of learning science and engineering. And that is a key concept of STEM—finding a problem and developing a solution for that, and it doesn't have to be in the laboratory.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

One of the key benefits of an OLC is that faculty are given the opportunity to collaborate and share their knowledge and expertise (Tuffnell, 2021). This framework is focused on facilitating collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise, and providing support and guidance to faculty through the OLC. Education Science.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

They did indicate that they gained new knowledge and/or skills they can use. Megan Frary is a senior educational development consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University and also clinical associate professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

They did indicate that they gained new knowledge and/or skills they can use. Megan Frary is a senior educational development consultant in the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University and also clinical associate professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. That sentiment is backed by learning-science research in a concept called the “doer effect.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With all the advances in science, you'd think we'd have the human mind figured out a bit more. For one thing, psychology is a lot harder than almost any other science. I've often called cognitive science the place where Nobel laureates come to die. So that also complicates the science. What is your take on that?

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The most important thing that teachers can do, I am convinced, is to treat their students as partners and as creators of knowledge. Let your students construct knowledge, let them discover insights on their own. We’re working right now with Army University to try to create what we call a “knowledge graph.” They’re going to cram.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2018

Lab Safety: Put triggers around a science laboratory that students can scan to learn safety procedures. If your goal is to create lifelong learners inspired by knowledge, AR, in its infancy, holds the seeds for meeting that goal. Homework Mini-Lessons: Students scan homework to reveal information to help them solve a problem.

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