Education
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Designing for Depth: When High Achievement Isn’t the Whole Story
Designing for Depth: When High Achievement Isn’t the Whole Story contributed by Laura Mukerji, InterestEd Educational Solutions In most classrooms, we rely on visible indicators like grades, accuracy, and finished work to tell us whether learning is happening. While those measures are useful, they do not always show how students are actually thinking. Many students become very good at ‘doing…
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How Breaking Words Changed the Way My Students Approach Language
contributed by Alan Davson ‘Anyone who has visited my classroom knows how much I love words. I teach multimedia arts, but I talk about words so much that most people assume I must be an English teacher. Over the years, no matter what subject I taught, I kept noticing the same pattern. My studentswere bright, creative, and capable, but they…
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From Screen To World: 5 Ways To Use AI To Spark Hands-On Learning In K–12 Classrooms
From Screen To World: 5 Ways To Use AI To Spark Hands-On Learning In K–12 Classrooms contributed by Athena Stanley Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a powerful tool for student learning when paired with strong foundations in ethics, integrity, data privacy, bias awareness, and the ability to detect misinformation. When used thoughtfully, AI can support brainstorming, revision,…
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When STEM Lessons Are Too Easy, Students Stop Thinking
contributed by Christopher Feiler, Ph.D The lesson looked great on the surface. Students were on task. Materials were moving. Directions were being followed step by step. But something felt off. No one was stuck.No one was asking questions.No one was thinking. That’s the moment you realize: the problem isn’t engagement. The task is too easy. When STEM Tasks Miss the…
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A Learning Typology: 7 Ways We Come To Understand
contributed by Stewart Hase, Heutagogy of Community Practice This typology is an attempt to redefine how we think of learning in modern classroom context. Current definitions of learning focus on performance rather than holistic growth, and on what the learner can do after a learning experience. Gagne is perhaps the most notable exception. General dictionary definitions of learning refer to learning as…
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An Updated Guide To Questioning In The Classroom
by Terry Heick If the ultimate goal of education is for students to be able to answer questions effectively, then focusing on content and response strategies makes sense. If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think, then focusing on how we can help students ask better questions themselves might make sense, no? Why Questions Are More…
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What Is A Whataboutism? | TeachThought
What Is Whataboutism? Whataboutism is a rhetorical move in which a person avoids responding to a criticism, claim, or question by pointing to a different problem, usually with a response such as, ‘What about this other thing?’ Whataboutism matters because it can sound like fairness while functioning as avoidance. Instead of answering the question in front of the discussion, it…
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What Is A One-to-One Classroom?
One-To-One Classroom Related Terms: 1:1 Technology · One-To-One Computing · Blended Learning · Personalized Learning · Digital Learning · One-On-One Instruction Overview: A one-to-one classroom is most often a classroom where each student has regular access to an individual digital device, such as a laptop, Chromebook, or tablet. In less common usage, the phrase may also describe an instructional model…
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What Are Distractors In Multiple-Choice Questions?
Assessment Design Distractors are the incorrect answer choices in a multiple-choice question. When they are well-designed, they do more than make a question harder: they help reveal how students are thinking. Distractor Definition In a multiple-choice question, a distractor is an incorrect answer choice written to appear plausible to students who have a specific misconception, partial understanding, procedural error, or…
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Recognizing Early Expression in Multilingual Young Children
contributed by Iryna Liusik, Early Childhood Educator — Linguistics & Emotional Development Series note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series: Part 2 offers a one-minute classroom observation routine that helps teachers notice comfort that makes early expression visible before assumptions become records. Introduction: In early childhood classrooms, the fastest mistake we make is treating silence as a single…
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