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

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If School A’s teachers are more motivated and choose to participate in the intervention while School B’s teachers opted out, it is impossible to disentangle the effects of an intervention from the qualities of the teachers who elected to use it. Who participated in the study? is something you care about.

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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. –published first on TeachHUB.

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What a Summer Prototype Taught Us About Measuring Quality in an Unbundled Education System

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In the summer of 2016, a community of educators, research design partners, and over 150 teens and young adults in Colorado engaged in a bold experiment to rethink how quality and impact might be measured in a modernized system of learning. In this relatively small, short-cycle prototype, the lessons we learned were significant.

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

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Furthermore, the dialogue involves students and faculty to participate in an authentic skills-based experience to present research and learn from their peers’ presentations (Martini, Judges, & Belicki, 2015). Dream : What do you hope to accomplish based on your research?

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

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Collections from your fellow educators from around the globe are available at Participate Learning and BloomBoard to get you started. Consider encouraging students to research, curate, and design their own lessons with OERs. What a great way for our students to demonstrate learning or even teach their classmates.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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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 

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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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