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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

Edsurge

Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. Other industries have experienced similar histories as new technologies rolled in.

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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

For the uninitiated, Smart Classrooms are digitally equipped learning spaces that come tailored with an array of teaching and educational resources, most of which are dependent on some form of digital technology. Given the surge in Smart Classroom technology requirements, the demands on these IT professionals gets ratcheted up ever further.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Prepare students for a technological society. Most researchers agree effective keyboarding isn’t instinctual and training should begin before bad habits are created. This conclusion was reinforced by Feutz (2001). In the absence of training, they will learn, but likely wrong. Improved creative thought.

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Top 5: Rebooting the Oral Exam Tops Most-Read List for October 2023

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Can technology help make them less time-consuming to deliver? How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist : Since winning the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001, Carl Wieman has devoted the bulk of his energies to trying to improve teaching. What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

The term was coined by author Marc Prensky to describe a person who grew up surrounded by technology and is familiar with the Internet from an early age on. Hillary Scharton writes that children aren’t born knowing technology, and that the belief that digital natives excel at multitasking can be detrimental to their learning.

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10 Reasons Why Phonemic Awareness Is Important for Early Literacy Development

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Digging deeper, Griffith and Olson note that training in phonemic awareness directly contributes to children’s word recognition and spelling abilities. Effective When Taught Early : Many studies, such as those by Kozminsky, suggest that early training in phonemic awareness significantly contributes to initial decoding skills.

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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Journal of Education and Training Studies, 1, 98 –105. The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It , by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ). Epstein, J. & van Voorhis, F.

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