Beyond Blackboards Uses Engineering Design and Robotics to Improve Math and...
Originally published in October 2011 Working with The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, area school districts, and members of the education industry, the College of...
View ArticleAdventures in learning: Turn students into explorers and take learning past...
Originally published in March 2011 Let’s say you have to teach a dozen college freshmen how to whip up a batch of chocolate éclairs, and the extent of their culinary experience up to now has been...
View ArticleLearning, Unscripted
Here’s a description of a classroom where a wealth of learning occurs. Students choose small groups and the teacher asks them to plan a vacation. They can go anywhere. The first group decides on...
View ArticleLetting Aliens and Robots Do the Teaching
Over the past couple of decades, UT Austin’s College of Education has become a national leader in preparing STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) teachers who can motivate and ignite learning...
View ArticleThe UTeach Effect
When UT Austin’s College of Education and College of Natural Sciences created the teacher preparation program UTeach, they never dreamed that the President of the United States would be applauding it...
View ArticleWorkshop Offers Strategies to Rejuvenate Computer Science Education
February 5, 2015 To address a critical shortage of K-12 computer science teachers, students and courses, the Texas Regional Collaboratives for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching (TRC)...
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