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Engineers Week — A Must for High School

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If the interest at your school is bigger, engineers can make an all-school presentation at a middle- or high-school career day. 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. for High School.

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

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In almost any school in the country today, you can find an app or program that claims to change education as we know it. Yet schools are littered with products that have not changed anything beyond teachers’ desktop screens. One recent study of school spending estimated that up to two-thirds of software licenses are never activated.

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

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Using technology in schools is no longer just about preparing our students for college and career. Using technology in schools is no longer just about preparing our students for college and career. So this year, I’m sharing my high hopes for how some of the new powerful tools out there could be used in your school or classroom.

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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. Why focus outside of formal learning time for our design work?

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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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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.

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Improve the precision of student enrollment forecasting

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Hanover Research’s (2011) report mentions that several high school achievement factors (GPA, SAT/ACT test scores, high school rank) are among the most consistent predictors of retention. Unfortunately, Miami became test-optional in the fall of 2020 and our collection of data such as high school GPA and rank was inconsistent.