Educational Pedagogy

Women make up 47 percent of all employed adults in the U.S., but as of 2015, they hold only 25 percent of computing roles, according to data from the National Center for Women & Information Tec…

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"A reader sent me an email asking how they could use digital apps and tools to facilitate active collaboration in their classroom. I thought it was an interesting question, and so I decided to reply in the form of a short blog post. I hope you enjoy my answer. The short answer is yes, active collaboration and participation can be achieved through digital tools. They allow learners to maintain a collaborative environment with their classmates or even learners located across the state, country, or world."

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"Many of us feel a bit helpless to help others out during these coronavirus social distancing and isolation times. This also true for kids and young people. There are actions they can take as part of their home schooling. They can participate in civic engagement and activism activities."

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"We are asking today’s students to spend so much of their school lives doing tasks that are unconnected to the the skills that need now and in their future lives. . . . and the kids agree as studies have indicated."

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What does innovation in education look like in 2020 and beyond? The CEO of Education Elements shares his thoughts on leadership, teams, habits, learning, and more.

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Aswath Damodaran holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and is Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. H

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'If I don't grade it, students won't do it.' This reasoning leaves teachers with piles of work to grade, but I wonder how much of that time spent assigning points to student work results in improved student performance. I fell

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Only 12 of the 67 innovations, or 18 percent, were found to have any positive impact on student achievement, according to a report published earlier in 2018.

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"The Value of Failure in the Classroom. Leveraging failures on formative assessment for learning."

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Handwriting vs typing in learning: Is it all a sum-zero game? Children should know how to write by hand as well as how to type.

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These tools and strategies can help introverts show what they know and participate in class in ways that are comfortable for them.

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"Students today are more distracted than ever before. Why is this happening? To explain it simply, they are immersed in their digital devices. In the classroom, this becomes an even larger problem. A recent Pew Research Study found, “87% say these technologies are creating an ‘easily distracted generation with short attention spans’ and 64% say today’s digital technologies ‘do more to distract students than to help them academically.’” While it is clear that digital technology is distracting students, the technology is here to stay."

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It’s a common refrain among the change-resistant: “We’ve always done it this way.” But in a difficult year, where charting the unknown has become a daily occurrence, it’s a tough argument for a school to make. We’ve never done things this way—meaning it may be the perfect opportunity to do them differently.

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From adjusted grading policies to framing learning as a messy process, there are many ways to honor mistakes in the learning process.

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Mr. Gil Maldonado continues to teach his social studies students thanks to Distance Learning. He adds that one of the benefits of using technology for his class now, is it will better prepare students for college. In McAllen ISD, all students have access to either an iPad or a Chromebook as a personal electronic learning device.

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Teachers are passionate about helping their students and as a result seeking to improve their craft. That said, PD doesn’t always feel particularly helpful.

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This instructor navigated the unknowns when she took classes abroad to learn a new language. By doing this, she put herself in her student's shoes.

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Writing is more important than ever, but many of today’s students are lousy at it. John Warner has some ideas about why that is, and how to fix it

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"How do we begin to help every learner develop agency? For educators to think about how agency can be realized by every learner, we need to explore how children may be perceived currently in the classroom and how children may perceive themselves."

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"At the risk of characterizing teaching and learning in a factory context let’s face it, classrooms are a kind of marketplace system with an exchange of ideas and thinking incentivized by a variety of factors. With this in mind, it can be helpful to think about the design and architecture of learning in a push vs. pull kind of way."

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"By most measures, Massachusetts is one of the nation’s highest-performing states when it comes to K-12 education. It ranks first in the country on lists from Education Week and U.S. News, and is singled out for its high reading and math achievement, as well as its relatively narrow equity gaps among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups in academic performance."

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Alexandra Lange's new book has insights on the influence of school and classroom design on children's learning throughout history.

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Finding the learner's WIIFM is tricky, but vital to the success of your training. Answer the question, 'What's in it for me?' to engage learners!

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"Learning to decipher real news from fake news is more important than ever before"

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