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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom. And guess what?

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Trade programs — unlike other areas of higher education — are in hot demand

The Hechinger Report

Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville student Robert Nivyayo works on his car during auto collision repair class Wednesday, April 13, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Among them is 26-year-old Cheven Jones, taking a break from working on his 2003 Lexus IS 300. I really enjoy just working on the body of the car and learning.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Cordi, Thomas Schreiner, and Björn Rasch (2023), prior knowledge is seen as a pre-existing understanding that influences memory consolidation during sleep. discuss two main types of prior knowledge which I want to draw your attention to: declarative prior knowledge and procedural prior knowledge. IJ STEM Ed , 6 (33). link] Cordi, M.

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PROOF POINTS: The value of one-size-fits-all math homework

The Hechinger Report

Advocates call this concept “personalized learning” but this sci-fi idyll (or dystopia, depending on your point of view) has been slow to catch on in American classrooms. Those longer-term results were published in June 2023 , and they were good. I rarely hear about “personalized learning” any more in a classroom context.

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Technology’s Impact on Student Learning: Insights from the Speak Up 2022 Congressional Briefing

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In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., My purpose behind this post is to introduce you to UDL, explain what it is and talk about the different ways you can use it in your classroom to enhance your teaching and boost students learning. As Gargiulo and Metcalf (2023, p. To start with, Courey et al.

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Why teacher-authors don’t give everything away free (& neither should you)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I don’t think most people realize how much time and effort goes into turning one’s own classroom resources into something that is useful and adaptable for other teachers. When I created a form for my own classroom use, I couldn’t just upload that to TeachersPayTeachers and expect it to make sense to other educators.