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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. In this culminating project-based unit, students design prototypes for real users that address issues related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Interested in learning more?

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Passing Legislation Is One Thing.

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Piaget Stages – The Development Of Intelligence and Reason

Fractus Learning

Vygotsky believed social interactions were necessary for learning and development, and Jean Piaget thought even children learned through doing. Children learn by themselves without peers or adults telling them what to do. The children build their knowledge based on their experience. Secondary Circular Reactions.

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Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button

EdNews Daily

Without massive action, the United States will continue to lose traction in our ever-shrinking global learning community. Create modules of learning that: Help guide students to their clearest path of interest. This will ensure highest and best practices for an ever-evolving knowledge base. Establish “Rivers of Learning”.

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10 tips for teaching critical thinking + information literacy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

We have to build mental models, like inquiry-based learning routines, that can help students compare and contrast defining current events like a civil or social justice or cultural revolution with similar events that happened in the past. Create learning environments that value questioning, not just finding the right answer.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

Edsurge

That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest. In an op-ed published Dec.

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