Adapted
from Usable Knowledge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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from Usable Knowledge, HGSE's initiative to make education research and best practices accessible to the public.
Not exact matches
Below, excerpts
from a conversation we convened in his honor, featuring the two other founders of
Usable Knowledge, Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt and Associate Dean Keith Collar.
The book stems
from a series of conferences held at HGSE that examined ways to link research in practice and create
usable knowledge.
Usable Knowledge is an online resource
from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that aims to make education research and best practices accessible to educators, district and network leaders, policymakers, members of the media, nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, and parents.
Next fall, HGSE is hosting a
Usable Knowledge conference that will synthesize insights
from leading researchers around the world who are building links between biology, cognitive science, and educational practice.
He would like «use value» — the
usable knowledge one gets
from education — to be preferred to «exchange value» — what one gains
from the credential.
Usable Knowledge would like to hear
from you.
Usable Knowledge is an online resource
from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that aims to make education research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, members of the media, nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs, and parents.
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from research and practice leaders at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In a series aimed at closing the gap between research and practice,
Usable Knowledge has partnered with Digital Promise on a project that collects questions
from educators across the country and poses them to experts at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Fischer and Blatt offer other examples of the range and depth of information on the
Usable Knowledge site: how school systems can become «data wise,» by using test results to improve instruction; why education leaders need to overcome the universal «immunity to change» in order to move their organizations forward; how «teaching for understanding» is driving innovative use of distance learning for professional development; and what new insights
from research brought a truce to the «reading wars.»
«We hope decision - makers
from all levels of education and government will come to
Usable Knowledge looking for insight on one question, and then come back regularly because they find the site provides interesting and applicable resources on many issues.
Findings
from the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP) survey, and how it can help education leaders and researchers create more of an impact, are discussed in the following HGSE
Usable Knowledge blog post....
This vast
knowledge base has been essentially inaccessible to teachers because of its sheer size and the research format that often requires significant time
from which to glean
usable information — time that teachers do not have.
The genesis of
Usable Knowledge developed
from the principal belief that the research taking place at Harvard could achieve far greater impact if communicated and disseminated effectively to others working in the field of education, according to Ryan.
Since players are limited to
usable characters
from the chapter currently being viewed; players are encouraged to either cultivate a playable
knowledge of available characters or turn on Stylish mode.