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The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade. Here’s What’s Next.

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But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. According to the authors of a new report, it’s not schools that need a “rethink” as much as school staffing.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Frameworks provide mental models, but “don’t usually help educators know what to do differently,” argues technology leadership expert Scott McLeod in his latest book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning. Heather Wolpert-Gawron offers a good role-model.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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What kind of mental models do humans build of AI agents? You can build an agent and introduce it, but humans will immediately build a mental model of that AI agent. And the mental model is not going to be the one that you, as a designer, has.