TC to Partner with Columbia on Climate Change Education Initiatives Funded by the National Science Foundation The $25 million grant funds a new Columbia research center that will receive support from Teachers College faculty on developing climate change programming for NYC public schools TC......
With a $2 million NSF grant, TC’s Paulo Blikstein hopes to turn kids into investigators TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWSROOM Joe Levine August 7, 2020 The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), introduced in 2013, were hailed for their potential to transform K-12 students into “mini-scientists” who could learn core concepts......
Faculty and students at two TC research labs have teamed up with a local business to make and distribute shields and other gear to provide personal protection for doctors who intubate COVID patients TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWSROOM Joe Levine May 29, 2020 You’re a doctor in......
For the expert in new technologies, investment and valorization of research must be on the agenda of higher education leaders and the Brazilian government REVISTA ENSINO SUPERIOR (Brazil) May 06, 2020 (Google translated, original Portuguese text below.) How to build a leading university for......
The risk of a radical shift to online learning after the crisis ends By NICHOLAS WASSERMAN, NATHAN HOLBERT and PAULO BLIKSTEIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS APR 08, 2020 With the coronavirus pandemic, every educational institution is rapidly converting to online education. This ubiquitous incorporation of technology is an enormous......
A Topic that Pushes Buttons Sparks fly at TC’s conference on the future of artificial intelligence in education TC Newsroom Sept. 20, 2019 Joe Levine Is artificial intelligence (AI) the “killer app” that educators have been waiting for, or just an over-hyped “next big thing”?......
Sobral, Brazil. Science education has been undergoing important transformations around the world, moving from content transmission models to the integration of scientific practices such as asking questions, analyzing data and building models. Since 2017 a team of researchers from TLTLab are working with educators from......
The TLT Lab is a collaborative endeavor that depends on the expertise and contributions of many partners, fellows, academics, researchers, and students to advance the innovative learning technology that it aims to study and implement. Among these collaborators are two former TLTL doctoral students, Marcelo......
The FabLearn Italy 2019 conference took place on Nov. 20-22 in Ancona, Italy....
Florence, Italy. Since 2018, the TLTL has partnered with the research arm of the Italian Ministry of Education, the Institute for Innovation in Education Research (INDIRE), to revamp science education in Italy. The partnership is bringing the TLTL developed Bifocal Modeling framework, a new approach......
Washington DC, USA. TLTL faculty director and Columbia University Associate Professor Paulo Blikstein spoke at the Inter-American Development Bank recently as part of an event examining the role of Technology in Latin American/Caribbean Technical and Vocational Education. Blikstein delivered a talk to the bank’s staff......
Bangkok, Thailand. The Blikstein TLT Lab, in partnership with the Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning (DSIL), facilitated a series of teacher professional development workshops in Bangkok, Thailand during the last week of August as part of a 5-year initiative funded by the Suksapattana Foundation. The......
