Place Based Education
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Future of Learning
Distance Learning: Boosting College-, Career-, and Life- Readiness
[…] submission platform. Students are practicing setting timers to know when to rejoin their class for learning. They are using cameras to screenshot important slides and images during instruction. They are creatively recording videos to show evidence of their learning rather than simply turning in a worksheet. Though, of course, there are struggles as students […]
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Future of Learning
Invention Opportunity In Early Learning And Development
[…] St. Louis Black Authors of Children’s Literature’s The Believe Project is galvanizing schools, museums, libraries, radio stations, and hip-hop artists to mobilize the community around culturally relevant literacy instruction with a focus on young Black children. Wildflower Montessori is a network of microschools bringing quality Montessori education to all children through one-room schools. 10. Accelerating community-led […]
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Learning Design
A New School That Thinks Like a Kid
[…] Schools is creating an opportunity for students to learn alongside industry professionals and reduce their postsecondary student debt. They are working to provide flexible schedules and student-centered instruction to prepare students for high-level career options. Their unique approach to education includes: Competency-Based Education: No more traditional, time-bound courses Career-Immersed Learning: Meaningful mentoring and internships Hybrid Schedule: […]
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Future of Learning
With Remote Professional Learning, The Opportunities Are Boundless
[…] thrown into the deep end with little to nothing to hold onto. The quick shift to remote learning has forced teachers to challenge preconceived notions of what instruction and learning can look like. Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to interview educators from districts all over the country in order to […]
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Future of Learning
Making a Difference: Education for Refugees
[…] women in the camps to start their own businesses and fend for themselves. While US educators are being stressed to the limits with the pandemic disrupting face-to-face instruction and revealing how underprepared we’ve been as a field, Ilene and those she continues to mentor are innovating learning design for learners of all ages and […]
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Difference Making
How High-Schoolers Launched a Start-up to Reduce Social Isolation in Seniors
[…] our app more widely available. Since we can’t go into the communities to teach residents how to use the technology, we made videos and pamphlets that provide instruction. Our INCubatoredu class may have ended in the spring, but Walkthru will continue on as a thriving enterprise, still managed by the same group that created […]
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Future of Learning
Five Mega Trends Reshaping Global Learning
[…] of Learning. 2. Active Learning: There is a global trend toward combinations of personalized and project-based learning. Individualized skill building has been bolstered by adaptive and small group instruction. Extended challenges are more frequently being used to develop the personal leadership and problem solving skills valued by new outcome frameworks (#1). Active learning is more […]
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Leadership
A New Vision for a New Administration: Whole-Child Development, Learning and Thriving
[…] schools and education systems of the future must be designed: toward integrated and individualized processes and supports; using tools and platforms that enable educators to integrate academic instruction with the intentional development of the skills and mindsets that all successful learners have; and attuned to student well-being. Breakthroughs do not occur when we seek […]
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Learning Design
Book Review: The Math(s) Fix
[…] as teachers, administrators, parents, everyone who has a connection with education and bringing about changes, needs to be a part of these transformations. Schools That Are Changing Instruction Locally in Pittsburgh, several schools and organizations are bringing more computational thinking into classrooms and creating opportunities for educators, in line with the ideas of Wolfram. […]
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Equity & Access
The Best Super Bowl Sunday Ad Champions Equity in Education #WhatDoesItTake
[…] were too often put on the back burner. It’s time to shift our mindset and consider the needs of our most vulnerable students first. Family communication, online instruction, teleconferencing and counseling, independent study, blended learning, needs assessment, and data tracking and analytics are each stronger and more effective when they are designed to meet […]
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