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Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System

ED Surge

Instead, we take a more personalized approach that provides choices for what and how students learn to support their growth. In this kind of learning environment, where a student’s creativity and critical thinking skills are constantly challenged, John took some time to adjust.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

ED Surge

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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How to Refresh the STEM Curriculum in Your Classroom

STEM Sport

The primary challenge for educators is to develop and maintain a STEM curriculum that is both responsive and adaptable to these ongoing advancements. This approach not only enriches their knowledge base but fosters critical thinking and creativity – skills essential to the real-world implementation of skills.

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Freedom to Learn

User Generated Education

Significant learning takes place when the subject matter is perceived by the student as having relevance for his or her own purposes. “A A somewhat more formal way of stating this is that a person learns significantly only those things which he perceives as being involved in the maintenance of or the enhancement of his own self” (p.

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

A classroom or library can be transformed into its own makerspace, a space for powerful student learning by doing the following realistic and workable actions: Removal of Obsolete, Non-Flexible Classroom Desks (including the traditional teacher’s desk). An Agile and Nimble Learning Environment.