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3 Ways to Shake Up The Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

Online research. Design and create (presentations, infographics, storybooks, etc.) Instead, there are multiple stations designed to challenge students at different skill levels. I design tasks that target that skill at each station, but the degree of challenge is different. Collaborative small group work. with web tools.

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Twig Education Announces Launch of Twig Create Multimedia Makerspace

eSchool News

The Twig Create makerspace encourages students’ creative agency in a number of ways: Film allows students who struggle with paper/pen-based reading and writing to access information more readily and communicate ideas in a sequenced manner.

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Wow! This inquiry-based, technology-rich school has no tech staff

eSchool News

With the support of a teacher or parent as facilitator, students research, design, plan, implement, and reflect on their learning. I love the way the CERCA Framework (which stands for Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterargument, Audience) builds students’ critical thinking and argumentative writing skills.

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Is it the school, or the students?

eSchool News

“An unexpected dividend of our work designing Denver and New York City’s centralized choice systems is that we see how students are rationed from [distributed among] schools,” says Pathak. This leads to a research design that can isolate cause and effect.”

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How Makerspaces in Schools Help Students Learn to Code

EdTech Magazine

“One of the goals of any makerspace should be to instill the maker mindset in students through a series of creative experiences while simultaneously building 21st-century skills,” computer science teacher Nick Provenzano writes for Getting Smart.

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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. Good Practices for Scientific Article Writing with ChatGPT and Other Artificial Intelligence Language Models’. tools that followed the advent of the World Wide Web.

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

eSchool News

Nevertheless, in the year following its founding, Lexia won a major grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund product research, design, and development. It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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