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The synthesis of the extracted effect sizes, with the support of the validation process, revealed a significant positive small to moderate effect size favoring the utilization of technology in the experimental condition over more traditional instruction (i.e., technology free) in the control group.

we feel that we are at a place where a shift from technology versus no technology studies to more nuanced studies comparing different conditions, both involving CBI treatments, would help the field progress

it appears that the second-order meta-analysis approach represents an economical means of providing an answer to big questions

A recent synthesis of more than 25 meta-analytic studies investigating the role of computer-based technologies in student learning found that the teacher may play an even greater role in students’ technology-enhanced learning than the nature of the technology intervention itself.

professional development programs can improve instruction when they immerse teachers in inquiry investigations

Inquiry investigations engage teachers in activities such as comparing alternative forms of curricula and pedagogical techniques, analyzing the range of students’ ideas in a targeted subject matter, connecting students’ ideas to specific elements of instruction, and critiquing lesson plans in a mutually supportive teacher community

The space is meant to blur the lines between disciplines and to tear down the walls—literally and metaphorically— between instruction and research, so that the research being conducted in one lab provides the content for the curriculum being taught next door.

We want to elevate the level of discovery—be it in research or teaching. Problem-based learning is as an effective route to that goal and the ISE-Lab will provide the perfect environment for implementing an integrated science curriculum using PBL. The problems that need to be solved don’t fall into neat disciplinary areas, nor do students think that way. PBL is about the real world.

Education is not the transmission of information or ideas. Education is the training needed to make use of information and ideas

Educators are coaches, personal trainers in intellectual fitness

It is as though elite educators, upon noticing that we can't program a computer to discern what is on the mind of an undergraduate, decided to pretend that if we just let those seeking an education talk among themselves (in grammatically felicitous sentences), they will somehow come to express difficult ideas in persuasive arguments and arrive at coherent, important insights about society, politics, and culture. As someone who spends time with students in directed conversations on difficult subjects, I'm sure this method won't work. We will, instead, produce graduates who cast assumptions they've never really questioned into grammatically correct slogans, and the sloganeers with the catchiest phrases, the most confidence, and the most money will shape the future