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Within the richness and diversity of the ed reform sector, the practice of charter school authorizing isn’t the trendiest. ...
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Australian Study Points to Benefits of Games-Based Math
Dr. Kristy Goodwin of Macquarie University studied what she calls Digital Games Based Learning (DGBL) including the deploymen...
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Educator Resuscitation 101: A Prerequisite for Summer Learning
I need to admit something. I am dead. Dead-tired. Exhausted. Fatigued. Drained. Emotionally and physically spent. And no, I d...
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Building STEM Skills by Learning Game Design
Alex Chisholm, Executive Director of the Learning Games Network describes the journey to the HP Catalyst Academy as grant rec...
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In Support of the Common Core
Common Core State Standards are thoughtful expressions of college- and career-ready expectations in reading, writing and math...
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Teaching Without Words: A Conversation With Researcher Matthew Petersen
Matthew Petersen is an extremely smart person who as a child struggled with dyslexia and the way he was taught in the traditional school system—a system that focuses on words and numbers.
7 months ago by Jonathan Wai
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3 Reasons Why Schools Neglect Spatial Intelligence
In Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence? I stressed that as a society we have neglected spatially talented students who are not as good with words and numbers but who are quite talented at manipulating figures and shapes in their minds. In this article, I offer a few reasons as to why schools tend to neglect spati...
8 months ago by Jonathan Wai
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Your Smartphone Might Be Making You Smarter
The New York Times just published an interesting debate asking "Are People Getting Dumber?" James Flynn says that we are now "thinking in more sophisticated ways," Steven Pinker claims that "we are living in a period of extraordinary intellectual accomplishment," andLinda Gottfredson argues that "modern innovations mak...
one year ago by Jonathan Wai
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Q&A: The Educational World Is Flat
Tom Vander Ark is an educational innovator who thinks like an engineer. He is currently the CEO of Open Educational Solutions, a partner in Learn Capital, and director of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. Previously he served as President of the X PRIZE Foundation and was the Executive Director ...
one year ago by Jonathan Wai
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Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence?
Consider this. Ever since you were a kid, can you remember taking a standardized test that didn’t have a math or verbal section? I can’t. Pretty much all of them have math, science, English, reading, and maybe writing sections. Even when you got to high school, and you took the SAT or ACT, there were verbal, math, ...
one year ago by Jonathan Wai
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