Category: EDCI

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2023 Best Books for Kids — College of Education Gift-Giving Guide

Enough screen time – instead, give books to the children in your life! Books stimulate their brains and don’t require batteries. Here are some recommendations from Purdue University educators.

Purdue’s Office of Global Partnerships and Global Academic Committee are recognizing winners of Purdue’s 2023 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award, including Jill Newton, professor of mathematics education, who developed a Maymester in Tanzania program.

Newton receives 2023 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award

The Office of Global Partnerships and Global Academic Committee named Dr. Jill Newton as one of four winners of Purdue’s 2023 Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award during International Education Week (Nov. 13-17).
Students use AR-enhanced images of a Japanese beetle to document and classify the insects’ characteristics.

Lowell’s collaborative team develops XR/AR tech to assist teachers, engage students in science learning

How can instructors better teach science, specifically taxonomy and classification? A collaborative Purdue University team created innovative Extended Reality (XR) and Augmented Reality (AR) instructional materials and resources to help teachers and to enhance student learning and engagement. Students use...
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Ackerman Center: serving Indiana’s teachers, students with civics resources

A resource center housed in the Purdue University College of Education is impacting the university and the state of Indiana by providing needed civics education resources for Indiana school districts. The James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship developed and...
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Enhancing students’ training to handle radioactive materials more safely

Purdue University researchers have received a $50,000 internal grant from the University’s Innovation Hub to develop a Mixed Reality/Virtual Reality radiation safety training and assessment platform for students. The project is titled, “Development and Implementation of an Augmented Reality Assessment...
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PhD student Lathrop focuses education research on misinformation, media literacy & AI

Third-year doctoral student Ben Lathrop is helping frame the conversation surrounding dis/misinformation along with publishing about teacher-focused research and tools on critical media literacy.