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Translating Complex Concepts for the Youngest Learners (March 2018 J-WEL Week)

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Angela Belcher

Professor, Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Angie Belcher, pK-12 @ J-WEL Faculty Co-Director and MIT professor, is convinced that even the most complicated concepts can be translated for the youngest learners. In this clip, she discusses teaching children how to amplify DNA.

Topics: Curriculum Design Early Childhood

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STEM
J-WEL pK-12

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Alex Shvonski, Joel Grimm, Claudia Urrea, Kirky DeLong, Saif Rayyan

Date: 22 June 2022

When thinking about experiential learning, one might think of laboratories with specialized and expensive equipment, elaborate large projects, or internships.

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Learning Approaches Webinar Series: Active Learning

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Saif Rayyan, Glenda Stump, Peter Dourmashkin

Date: 15 June 2022

Are you struggling to keep your students engaged? Are your students having a hard time paying attention in class after months of remote learning?

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Date: 8 June 2022

Design Thinking is a protocol for imagining human-centered innovations and solutions for ambiguous challenges.

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Sanjoy Mahajan

Date: 18 February 2021

Many students, even at MIT, cannot apply calculus in downstream science and engineering courses. For example, many students can evaluate integrals but cannot translate a physical situation into an integral.

Human Skills Workshop Curriculum and Materials

Content Author:

Glenda Stump, George Westerman

Date: 28 January 2020

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The OECD Learning Compass 2030

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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Introduction to the Compassionate Systems Framework in Schools

Content Author:

Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab

Date: 1 April 2019

In education, where interest in social and emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, and systems thinking is growing, we find both an opportunity and a need to develop models of thinking and teaching that prepare students to better understand and respond to the systems to which these issues belong.

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Hybrid Ed Workshop 2018: Looking Back and into the Future

Content Author:

Carlos Delgado Kloos

Date: 21 June 2018

The closing presentation from the HybridEd Workshop 2018, held June 21 on the MIT campus.

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Hybrid Ed Workshop 2018: Activity 2 Panel 3

Content Author:

Mary Ellen Wiltrout

Date: 21 June 2018

The sixth panel from the 2018 HybridEd Workshop, featuring Daniel Seaton, Product Owner for DART at Harvard University; Brad Wheeler, Learning Experience Designer for the Boston University Center for Teaching & Learning; Liling Huang, Lecturer in Chinese at Boston University; and Robert Rubin

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