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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I especially appreciated the following quote, “On his blog, Gorman shares what he has learned with a focus on how tech enables project-based learning.” Learn more at the conference master classes page. Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards. “We

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Quality Is Key Educators seek engaging, hands-on, interactive content that allows students to participate fully and think critically throughout the learning process. E-textbooks: A Personalized Learning Experience or a Digital Distraction? Teaching in a Digital Age: How Educators Use Technology to Improve Student Learning.

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What Schools Reopen, It Shouldn’t Be Business as Usual

Edsurge

While it is important to assess students’ learning and keep some records of what skills they have mastered, the more important process of learning involves dialogue, teacher feedback, student learning conversations and self-reflection. Still, we needed to identify the most important and critical areas to focus on.

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How to Run a Parent Class

Ask a Tech Teacher

With that comes either disinterest or pushback against your efforts to blend tech into learning. You can solve this by offering tech classes to parents, to teach them either the skills their students are learning or an introduction to tech in their lives. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Not Just for Reading Class Anymore: 5 Tips for Teaching Literacy Across Multiple Subjects

Edsurge

But after talking to a number of different educators and reading their various accounts, what I can tell you is that your peers have discovered creative, technology-supported ways to approach teaching reading, writing and vocabulary in their multi-subject classrooms—and they were willing to share it to help you out. The initiative?

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction. Every student is unique and learns differently. Often the tools available either meet some of the teachers’ needs or are prohibitively expensive.

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How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed

MindShift

Teaching students to design effective oral presentations has also been found to support thinking development as “the quality of presentation actually improves the quality of thought, and vice versa” (Živkovi?, Additionally, t he Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards specifically focus on oral presentations.

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