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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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In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement. 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.

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

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The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans.