Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. They said, students should work in laboratories and do science to learn science. That was the beginning of the laboratory method. You've got the pressure from state agencies, so you have states and districts focused on student achievement-test scores.

Teaching

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed. Read on for more: 3 ways to revamp lessons for the interactive learner. Today’s students are a uniquely interactive group. Librarians are taking the lead in the digital transformation.

Laboratory

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

One of their first stops was Brooklyn Laboratory Schools (LAB), in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 2014 on the premise of creating online personalized learning platforms, forging teacher pathways and building community partnerships. Photo Credit: Ethan Covey Tech and Teachers. Self] pacing is one of the best things.”.

Laboratory

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.

Schools

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

My 15-year-old students had the confidence to email and call some of the top scientists in the country to ask questions about what they had read and seek advice for their own experiments It was an ambitious and daunting task. How could all of this fit in to a student’s scheduled day? I decided we would use the before-school zero period.

Science

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go? And I've always read a lot of science fiction books about maybe that could start pushing the frontiers of and even helping us understand what is intelligence and what is consciousness.

Intelligence

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So if we know what the ‘right data’ is, and there are tests for it, then why isn’t every company just using that, right? First, these tests are not concise. By the nature of how the tests are built, it would take hours and hours or sometimes days—hundreds or thousands of questions—to get enough data. Have you ever stolen?’

Evaluation

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

She is an engineer who holds a doctorate in speech-recognition technology, and has spent the past two decades researching this field at Columbia University, IBM and Bell Laboratories. The plan is to test another 1,000 students in 2020, and another 600 the following year.

Laboratory

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

In the early ‘60s, Seymour came to MIT and co-founded with Marvin Minsky its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. And so began close to 40 years of research and innovation tying together computer technology with ideas about the development of intelligence, knowledge, and learning to learn.

Knowledge

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

Education

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

He might just change the way you think about things like growth mindset, comprehensive testing, and encouraging students to make mistakes. This is no different than having laboratory studies that suggest a particular treatment might cure cancer, only to find out that it doesn't work as well when you try to use that in patients.

Teaching

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

It’s not because you made them read a book or listen to a tape recording. This is not a multiple-choice test? In other words, it’s the active learning experiences that mean the most to students—not the lectures that they sat through or even the seminars that they sat through or even the books that they read independently.

History

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Each time someone caught the ball, he or she read aloud the SDG that landed face up, then reflected for a moment about what that global goal might mean locally, or personally. In the nation’s capital and nationwide, academic test scores are down and many students regularly bail on classes. For example, nearly half of D.C.

High School