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National Academies Launch Collaborative for Advancing Science Teaching and Learning in K-12

WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have launched the Collaborative for Advancing Science Teaching and Learning in K-12 (CASTL-K12), a new activity that will ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Learning Science at Home

Homes are special places of discovery, abounding with scientific phenomena and engineering marvels. Carol O’Donnell Homes are special places of discovery, abounding with scientific phenomena and ...

NZ's draft science curriculum favors rote learning over critical thinking

Research and practice over the past several decades have revealed that a truly knowledge-rich science curriculum encompasses ...
University of Massachusetts Lowell

UML Certifies First Faculty in Technology Enhanced Active Learning

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology ...
Education Week

Learning Science in Informal Settings

A major recent study showed that informal science learning can play an important role in improving student learning in that subject. Such out-of-class learning can include trips to zoos or museums and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Teaching About Real-World, Transdisciplinary Problems and Phenomena through Convergence Education

In its 2018 Federal STEM Strategic Plan, a collaboration of government agencies wrote that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education should move through a pathway where ...
Forbes

What Teachers Need To Know About The Science Of Learning--And What They Don't

Lately there’s been a push to acquaint educators with “the science of learning.” But only some aspects of that science actually help teachers do their jobs. Others just waste their time. But there are ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Designing Citizen Science to Support Science Learning

This study will examine how citizen science projects can be designed to better support science learning. It will explore the potential of citizen science to support science learning, attempt to ...
Center for American Progress

Using the Science of Learning to Redesign Schools

Policymakers must reimagine instruction and school structures to reflect the latest science of learning. Policymakers and educators need to reimagine the American school experience in order to better ...
Drexel University

Advancing the Art and Science of Teaching

The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) provides resources, workshops and one-on-one pedagogical support to Drexel University’s faculty and teaching assistants. We work with instructors across every ...
Education Week

Future Teachers Are Unfamiliar With Basic ‘Learning Science,’ Report Finds

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...