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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. Who participated in the study? Moreover, make sure the outcome—test scores, absence rates, etc.—is

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Using the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Framework to Examine an Authentic Project-based Research Symposium

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Project-based learning with a focus on developing transferable skills also emphasizes asking questions that motivate students to focus on central concepts and principles concerning their discipline. Dream : What do you hope to accomplish based on your research? What motivates you in your chosen career and program of study?

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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. Participants share photos, honor colleagues, and/or engage students in everything engineering. Global Day. Global Marathon. Hands-on Activities.

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VR, PBL, and OERs: Four High Hopes for Learning with Edtech in the New School Year

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Coding has helped students get hooked on computer science in the elementary and middle levels and has helped self-motivated students build apps for their high schools. Collections from your fellow educators from around the globe are available at Participate Learning and BloomBoard to get you started.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

Faculty Focus

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023).

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

Faculty Focus

ChatGPT’s emergence and subsequent evolution as a generative artificial intelligence tool introduces new ways of assisting students with research design. Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023).

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention. Moving Educational Research Forward.