eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Key points: Schools should focus on teaching skills that have enduring value See also: Here’s why STEM Career Days are a great idea See also: Building a STEM pipeline needs to start in kindergarten For more news on STEM learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM page First came headlines about AI-driven cheating.

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STEM Skills Mental Models Intelligence 322

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Knowledge Educational Technologies Technology Education 146

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Kay estimates that some 800 school systems across the U.S have developed portraits so far.

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Skills Critical Thinking Communication Gamification 167

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

This post is a review of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today by Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray. There is lots of value in this book and a great deal of information that validates what we know about good leadership and strong school organizations. My short recommendation? What I liked about the book.

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Learning Schools Mental Models Discussions 88

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Participant device prerequisites. Presenters. Scott McLeod, J.D., Shift Happens).

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Mental Models Participation Coaching Questions 97

Lab to Class

MARCH 31, 2024

Perhaps books will have a diagram or teachers will attempt to explain a way to visualize a higher level math concept, but rarely do math textbooks and other math exercises for middle and high school explicitly focus on visualizations.

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Math Mental Models Textbooks Study 52