New Pathways

Students Co-authoring Their Own Learning

[…] critical thinking. Why Co-authoring Matters For the first time, human beings are simultaneously experiencing global phenomena — media, disease, climate crisis and economic shocks — with unprecedented novelty and complexity. Every aspect of life is growing more complex as the rate of change ratchets up. Man-made systems are interacting with the natural world in […]

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Future of Learning

The Math of Making Wine

After four seasons, Marcus Rafanelli joined L’Ecole as Winemaker and his story underscores the value of work-based learning in high school and college.

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Ed3

Education is about to radically change: AI for the masses

[…] it, increases chances of long-term success (i.e. family-sustaining wage, contributing citizenship, positive mental health). ChatGPT, can suggest next steps to any learning challenge at multiple levels of complexity. For example, if a student does not understand derivatives in Calculus, a simple search for “Explain derivatives using everyday terms” or “Provide step-by-step processes for solving […]

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Future of Learning

Our Learning Future from A to Z

[…] learning ecosystem to truly empower learners, educators, and parents to create a virtuous future for themselves and their communities. Clearly, we live in this moment of increasing complexity with generative AI (ChatGPT), geopolitical crises (Ukraine), financial instability (inflation), pandemics (Covid), and ecological precariousness (climate change, biodiversity loss) impacting all aspects of living in the […]

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Future of Learning

To Reopen, America Needs Laboratory Schools

[…] equitable and to create and pilot solutions rapidly. Seven Ways Lab Schools Can Design and Lead an Equitable Reopening Just as the public health system has mobilized its R &D infrastructure to combat COVID-19, laboratory schools have a chance to use their innovation networks to help our nation to rise to the challenge of reopening schools. […]

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Getting Through

We Can’t Put the Genie Back in the Bottle: Designing Next-Generation Education in the Time of Crisis

[…] difference to leverage collective expertise and collaborate globally. The crisis we’re facing with all of its ramifications is, in essence, an object lesson for the kind of complexity for which we should be preparing students. Chances are that our world will be increasingly more complex, not less, and engaging students in problem-solving skills to […]

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Future of Learning

Back to School – Meeting the Networking Needs of Tomorrow’s Digital Classroom

[…] integrated networks, and 5G will enable the internet to transform physical classrooms into sophisticated, digital ecosystems. However, this progress comes with more points of failure and network complexity. Data-intensive IoT solutions will require more edge computing resources to support greater local processing speeds. Every remote location adds a point of failure that could cause […]

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Getting Through

Schools Need a Success Coach for Every Learner

[…] is grounded in the belief that “None of us is free until we are all free.” Ali has worked as a middle school teacher, university instructor, DE &I consultant, director of curriculum and instruction across more than 30 schools, and director of learning transformation at an international education design lab.   Bb Ntsaky serves as […]

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Equity & Access

Educating All Learners Alliance Launches Flagship Site, Shares Personas Educators Can Use to Understand Students’ Lived Experience During COVID-19

[…] all learners benefit. Using the tool, teachers are invited to think more expansively about all of their students. “The personas give you a picture of the full complexity of all the facets of students’ lives to help you think about your role, what you need to know, and who you need to interact with […]

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Future of Learning

Invention Opportunity: Measuring What Matters

By: Devin Vodicka. It's time for an invention opportunity around assessments - create new policies, practices, and tools that encourage the development of purposeful goals tied to whole-child and competency-based learning progressions.

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