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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Modern educational tools make it possible to add a practical edge to math lessons, as students can observe math structures at play in the real world and see how people apply these formulas to solve common challenges.

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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

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In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. sharing digitally to build knowledge.

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5 Technology Workflows Your School Needs

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Reading Time: 4 minutes As schools order Chromebooks to include in their curriculums, it’s important that schools are ready to implement new technology workflows. Therefore, in this blog, we are going to review 5 technology workflows your school needs before getting Chromebooks. How are you tracking the circulation of the device?

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

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We can’t teach students everything they’ll ever need but what we can inspire them to be lifelong learners, to know how to figure something out when it slaps them in the face. How do you create lifelong learners? Take time in classes to 1) teach students how to research on the fly, and 2) allow them to do it.

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Do It Right the First Time: How to Maximize Your Edtech Investment

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Unfortunately, so are school budget restrictions, unmanageable workloads and aging (not to mention underperforming) classroom technology, to name just a few concerns. Yet, there are plenty of school districts whose implementation success stories provide useful guidance for finding new technology solutions to improve instruction.

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How to Build Your PLN

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Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. How to build a PLN. Reach out to them.

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How to Blend DoK into Lesson Plans without a Comprehensive Rewrite

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It got me thinking about lesson plans in general — how far we’ve come from lecture-test-move on. Now, exemplary teachers focus on blending learning into the student’s life knowledge base with the goal of building happy, productive adults. Rather, it itemizes ways students interact with knowledge.

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