Digital citizenship is a holistic and positive approach to helping children learn how to be safe and secure, as well as smart and effective participants in a digital world. That means helping them understand their rights and responsibilities, recognize the benefits and risks, and realize the personal and ethical implications of their actions. Please find […]
The K12 Lab is a catalyst for creative confidence in the elementary and secondary education sectors. Through workshops, resources or tools, we teach using immersive real-world projects where creative problem-solving matters most. We aim to obliterate opportunity gaps in K-12 education by experimenting with new models and sharing design approaches with stakeholders in the K-12 sector. […]
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Good schools have intentional—not inherited—features. They share a set of agreements that create coherence around a few animating ideas. Strategies, structures, schedules, systems, and even spaces are aligned. Everything works together for teachers and learners toward a few key priorities. Please click here for the full article.
If you have not liked/joined the group Standards Based Learning and Grading on Facebook, please do! Here is a connection from a Facebook post where two educators share their work with secondary teams. Every standards-based system looks a little different, but they should all have a few things in common. First, there need to be […]
Opinion: Sure, an AI aced an eighth-grade science test, but the method it used highlights its lack of common sense or anything resembling human understanding. Check out the article here.
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“Learning knowledge and skills is like standing in the middle of a forest, surrounded by trees: It’s easy to spot details but hard to see patterns.” Consider these 3 questions to help students go from surface to deeper learning.