By Tanya Roscorla, Center for Digital Education
A shift in education from passive to active learning is occuring, as shown by curriculum from the Digital Harbor Foundation, BatelleEd and Arizona State. The STEM Core curriculum emphasizes inquiry, projects and production around app development. And at the end of the process, students will have an app to market in app stores. “We’re more interested in saying, ‘We want producers, we want makers, we want somebody who isn’t just using a website to learn, but is making a website to learn,” said Andrew Coy, executive director of the Digital Harbor Foundation. That hasn’t always been the mindset, though. For so long, education has been stuck in the 19th century Industrial Revolution style.
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