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Flexible Seating Creates Vibrant Learning Spaces

Middle Web

As she works on a grant proposal to fund an update of her classroom furniture, Kathleen Palmieri shares what she’s learned from researching how students benefit from flexible learning environments, including boosts in creativity, engagement, collaboration, focus and achievement.

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Improving Teacher and Student Engagement Through Creativity

ED Surge

Engagement and creativity play such important roles in the learning process, but with the myriad of other requirements and obligations, they can easily get lost in the abyss of deadlines and mandates. Creativity helps develop a deeper sense of learning, yet we keep our “creative” units until after state testing is over.

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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

ED Surge

They’ll need to find ways for school employment to be far more flexible, which will mean profound changes in how they work. More flexibility is the number one priority for job seekers. Almost three-quarters of knowledge workers plan to leave their jobs if they don’t get enough flexibility. What will they look for?

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5 Things I Learned About AI, PBL, and Creativity at #ISTELive

Cool Cat Teacher

The ISTE Mainstage event today had several great takeaways relating to AI, creativity, Game based Learning, and more. Here are the things I learned from this event. is a powerful tool for creativity. Project Based Learning. for Learning. Creativity 5. Adaptability & Flexibility 8.

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Create Flexible Learning Opportunities

PCS Edventures

How can you create flexible learning opportunities with a self-directed STEM curriculum? Learning environments are laboratories of creativity and curiosity. In learning labs, learners brim with excitement, and STEM learning quickly becomes their favorite time of day! Make this form user-friendly.

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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?

ED Surge

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments. I learned early to be open to change.

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Confronting the School Staffing Crisis With Creative, Community Solutions

ED Surge

We learned quickly that this roller coaster isn’t just for first-year teachers. I have been floored by the response—such urgency, such depth of creativity, such generative thinking. Educators know what they need, administrators have wildly creative solutions and parents want to play a role.