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Continue reading →: Rethinking the time spent at school: Could flexibility improve engagement and performance for students and teachers?
Is it possible to reduce the time students spend in classrooms and schools? Would such a reduction be better for learning and retaining teachers? How should learning be more flexibly enacted in the post-pandemic era? Why are some schools have moved to 4 days a week? Jim and I wrote…
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Continue reading →: Introduction to Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao
Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao G. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao Published by Solution Tree, 2023 Williamson McDiarmid is the Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Distinguished Chair of Education at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Yong…
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Continue reading →: How Not to Kill Creativity?
This is the draft of my chapter on creativity in the book Creative Provocations: Speculations on the Future of Creativity, Technology & Learning co-edited by Danah Henriksen and Punya Mishra that is recently published online. Read the published article here. How Not to Kill Creativity? Yong Zhao University of Kansas University of…
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Continue reading →: Preface to Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao
Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao co-authored by G. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao will be published by Solution Tree in November. Below is the preface. Preface Everyone is born with a probability for their future. Birth locations, family circumstances, and community resources shape the likelihood of a particular…
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Continue reading →: Introduction to New Book: Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World
Learning for Uncertainty: Teaching Students How to Thrive in a Rapidly Evolving World By G. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao Published by Taylor and Francis on Jan 31 2022 Introduction How do we prepare our children for a world that is yet to be made? This is the question we want…
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Continue reading →: Side effects in education: Taxonomy of educational outcomes
I co-authored this article with Daniel Yiorgios Rigney, which is just published. Below is the abstract and you can read the entire article here. Outcomes in education are complex and numerous. Seemingly simple instructional choices can have far reaching implications for a student’s interest in a subject, their social network,…
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Continue reading →: Introduction to My New Book: Learners without Borders
My latest book Learners without Borders: New Learning Pathways for All Students is published by Corwin in July 2021. Below is Chapter One. It may surprise you to learn that teenagers in Nepal are using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to learn English and Egyptian, study dinosaurs, and take high-level STEM courses. On…
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Continue reading →: New article: Build back better: Avoid the learning loss trap
My article Build back better: Avoid the learning loss trap published in Prospects on March 4 2021. Below is the abstract and you can read here. Abstract A dangerous trap exists for educators and education policy makers: the learning loss. This trap comes with a large amount of data and with sophisticated…
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Continue reading →: New article: The changes we need: Education post COVID-19
Just published in Journal of Educational Change: The changes we need: Education post COVID-19 Yong Zhao and Jim Watterston Accepted: 28 January 2021 Read here or Download the PDF here Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both unprecedented disruptions and massive changes to education. However, as schools return, these changes may…
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Continue reading →: Watch Ep4 Creativity in Crisis: How well is creativity understood? A Conversation with Barb Kerr, Haiying Long, Ron Beghetto, & Yong Zhao
12:00-1:00pm Friday, September 25th US Pacific Time: In Episode 4 of Creativity in Crisis, we have invited Professors Barb Kerr and Haiying Long as our guests to discuss the current status of creativity. Please submit your views of the three questions we will use to drive our conversation below. Barbara…
More about Yong Zhao
Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Additionally, he worked as a professor of educational leadership in the Faculty of Education at University of Melbourne and senior researcher at the Mitchell Institute of Victoria University in Australia. He was a visiting Global Professor at University of Bath and a visiting scholar at Warwick University in the UK.
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