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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

Last summer, we began an exciting pilot project to understand whether instructional technology coaching ultimately leads to closing the digital use divide in the classroom. Therefore, over the past year, we set out to explore the potential of classroom coaching to effectively foster more powerful use of technology.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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How Data Science Adds Computational Thinking—and Fun—to Gym Class

Edsurge

In the fall of 2002, the Oakland Athletics shattered a 55-year-old record with twenty consecutive games won. By applying rich data analysis to the sport, a practice known as sabermetrics. By applying rich data analysis to the sport, a practice known as sabermetrics. How, you ask?

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How to Focus on Conceptual Understanding While Practicing Student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 2)

100mentors

Image Source: IBO.org “Teaching based on conceptual understanding” Classifications and categories, principles and generalizations, and theories, models and structures, make up the components of conceptual knowledge (Krathwohl, 2002). Knowledge Building: Theory, Pedagogy, and Technology. Approaches to teaching and learning.

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Is Online Education Good or Bad? And Is This Really the Right Question?

Digital Promise

A Meta Analysis of the Empirical Literature ) examined the literature between 1985 and 2002. This meta-analysis highlighted that some applications of online education were better than classroom instruction and some were worse. Another notable analysis was published by the US Department of Education in 2010.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. I’ve updated this list adding two sets of resources. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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If girls are bad at math, should we blame their mothers?

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: In a second analysis of 35 years of national survey data, the researchers found a strong correlation between a young woman’s beliefs about women’s roles and her future daughters’ subsequent math scores. . Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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