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EdTech
What Happens When AI Doesn’t Understand Students? An example for creative and equitable AI policy in education
[…] range of AI edtech issues in the United States and abroad. Russell Shilling, Ph.D., is Senior Advisor to the EdSafe AI Alliance, an expert on edtech R &D innovation and is a former Navy Captain, DARPA Program Manager, and STEM lead for the Dept of Education during the Obama Administration. The EdSAFE AI Alliance exists […]
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Sustainability
Excerpt: Learning in the Age of Climate Disaster
[…] interwoven imperatives for life. The big question is: how can we confront the realities of climate change in schools and universities and not sink into hopelessness? The complexity of the situation is daunting, but there are five essential simplicities to hold on to within the tangle. When confronted with overwhelming powerlessness, teach agency. When […]
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New Pathways
Citizenship Skills Support Durable Pathways
[…] Ethics Center and iCivics which centers on seven themes and five design challenges. Many of these programs facilitate deep inquiry and thoughtful questioning, core requirements for the vast complexity of our future. The education and employment ecosystem is filled with important dialogue around helping every learner get to a rewarding career through a variety of […]
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Competency-Based Education
Measuring Learning Growth: Competencies and Standards
The role of competencies has become increasingly important as employers, students and educators realize the impact of transferable skill deficit in young people. The challenge, however, becomes implementation.
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Equity & Access
Cultivating Women in Leadership: A Seat at the Table
To celebrate Women's History Month, Christy Pierce shares how high schools can put programs in place with young women in mind.
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EdTech
Is Knowledge Power? What the AI Conversation is Missing
[…] works better for all. We must not continue to perpetuate a world where our long-term outcomes are purely economic or academic. Powerful technology like AI increases the complexity given the challenge of bias in AI models, the susceptibility of humans towards influence, and the propensity for false narratives and information generated from AI sources. […]
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New Pathways
Deeper Learning Requires Deeper Relationships?
Scott McLeod shares insights from visits at innovative elementary and middle schools across the country devoted to significant amounts of time for students and educators to simply be together in community.
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Future of Learning
Schools of the Future: Creating the Entrepreneurial Education Model
Agency, choice, and elevating learner voice requires innovation, creativity and embedding entrepreneurship in our school models.
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Learner-Centered
Avoiding Accidental Harm: Fostering Positive Impact on Students’ Lives
[…] culture isn’t just a place where students don’t hurt each other physically; it’s a place that encourages intellectual risk taking, honest self reflection, and all the messy complexity of growth, without fear of judgement or failure. It can be a chaotic space, too, but it’s a sort of productive chaos anyone can recognize when […]
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Leadership
Charting a Course for Educational Transformation: The Power of Aligned Portraits
This blog dives into the transformative journey of educational leaders, anchored by four dynamic portraits: the Portrait of a Learner, the Portrait of a System, the Portrait of a Leader and the Portrait of an Educator.
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