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Sixth grade students at Quest to Learn, a New York City public school, recently got a two-week break from regular class work to build a giant Rube Goldberg machine. The project, for example, required

A collaboration of central Ohio school districts, businesses and community groups will give more high-school students a jump-start on college and work skills. Starting this fall, students in several local districts can enroll in career pathway programs that will focus on health care, information technology, robotics and logistics.

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.

"Whatever trendy term winds up sticking-'Re-Gen,' 'Gen Z,' 'Pluralist' or 'Homelander'-know that this group now entering its college years is your workforce of the future."

"Seriously, I don't. I don't teach at all in the traditional sense of the word. For this class, I am not the teacher up in front of the room making notes and expecting the students to copy them. My students learn what they need to learn to accomplish the task that has been set for them. I provide guidance to individuals, small groups, and the whole group when needed. I make available the necessary resources or access to those resources they need to accomplish their own learning. I give them guidelines and objectives but very little direct instruction."

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Editor's note: Ben Wildavsky is director of higher education studies at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York, and policy professor at SUNY-Albany. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. (CNN) -- If you want to know how U.S.

Describing her high school experience in the United States, a Finnish exchange student put it this way: "It was like elementary school in Finland." Sixteen-year-old Elina wasn't the only foreign visitor to think schools here are ridiculously easy. Surveys show about 90 percent of international students believe classes are easier in the United States than at home.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A dozen students at Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Ensley have taken a pilot online engineering class this year, according to a news release from the school on Monday. The college-level coursework is focused on programming with MATLAB using an online learning platform developed by Birmingham firm Slate XP and the Online Engineering Academy at Hoover High School.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

In the classroom, fiero -- excitement that gamers experience when they overcome challenges -- makes students see that they're empowered players in their own education. They're released into the exciting adventure that learning can be.

If you didn't make it to any of the three public tours at Neil Armstrong Middle School to learn about the school's pilot program involving the use of iPads, don't despair. If you have two minutes, we've got two YouTube clips and a brief comment (below) from Nichole Carter, an 8th grade language arts teacher who's been a leader in the school's transition to digital learning in the classroom.

To instruct or not to instruct has been a source of controversy in the field of applied linguistics since Krashen first introduced his comprehensible input theory in the 1980s. The debate over the utility of explicitly learned knowledge in language learning has come full circle again thanks to a new crop of digital immersion platforms, including Duolingo, Lingua.ly and Bliu Bliu.

For Boss's Day, my office staff at Howe Elementary in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., gave me the book QR Codes in Education by David Hopkins. In it, Hopkins describes those ubiquitous squares we see everywhere as being "like a barcode, but [containing] more data than just a number string."