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AI accreditation for schools: Why innovative tech requires an innovative implementation framework

Accreditation emerges from industry-defined standards of quality. To earn accreditation, a school must produce evidence that it meets those standards. (Different accreditors use different language and organize content differently, but we all validate the same essential standards.) And as the Middle States AI advisory team was designing RAIL to enable AI adoption while avoiding “integration,” […]

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The rise of ‘micro-schools’: Parents opt for alternative child learning amid public education concerns

Micro-schools offer students a small community as well as flexible schedules and assignments “A lot of micro-schools these days focus on project-based and experiential learning, too,” Barham said. “The kids I’ve met are really engaged because they’re not just sitting at desks — they’re out in the community, collaborating on hands-on projects and drawing real-world

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Student-designed 7th grade climate curriculum aims to bring joy, rigor

The developers of a new climate-centered, open source curriculum focused on land subsidence in California’s Central Valley promise the lessons for 7th graders will be joyful, engaging and rigorous. That’s because the developers, ages 12-23, are students themselves and have keen insight into what middle schoolers want to learn and how they connect with information.

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The Teen Brain – 10 minute short film

Teens say, ”Understand us!” The Teen Brain is a new 10-minute short film that explores what’s happening in the teenage brain, illuminating that teenagers are emotionally brilliant super-learners with brains that are undergoing rapid and significant remodeling and development. It is based on the latest research on adolescence, and showcasing both teens and doctors and

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AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China

The two most popular AI helpers in the U.S., as of May, are both Chinese-owned. One-year-old Question AI is the brainchild of the founders of Zuoyebang, a popular Chinese homework app that has raised around $3 billion in equity over the past decade. Gauth, on the other hand, was launched by TikTok parent ByteDance in 2019. Since its inception,

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Five Reasons to Bring Our National Parks into the Classroom

When we consider taking a vacation, we often make plans to visit our national parks. Whether it is the nostalgia from family road trips growing up, or just a desire to escape our daily routine and reconnect with the outdoors, over 300 million Americans travel to the 429 units managed by the National Park Service across the United States

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Unfulfilled Promise The Forty-Year Shift from Print to Digital and Why It Failed to Transform Learning

The shift from print to digital is the most significant change in how human beings learn since the printing press. It marked a shift from information scarcity to abundance, a shift from searching to sorting. It changed what, how, and where people learn, and not always for the better. Social media feeds displaced newspapers, YouTube

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