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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. Yet the authors found challenges as well.

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

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Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas. Heather Wolpert-Gawron offers a good role-model. The more concrete, the better.

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

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But that breaks the point about accessibility [and] affordability, because we cannot have one teacher for every student for every subject in the world. So, there is a teacher, there is a student. What kind of mental models do humans build of AI agents? It's just not going to happen. It was a research project.