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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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PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it’s not just about the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. His analysis indicates that low math performance is common throughout U.S. More analysis is needed to see if there’s a stronger link between school closures and test score changes. One hypothesis is that technology is distracting teenagers.

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

The future of education is technological. To resist technology, therefore, is to undermine students’ opportunities. To resist technology is to deny students’ their future. These technologies foreclose rather than foster future possibilities. Necessarily so. Or so the story goes.

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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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Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging

Digital Promise

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. The zone of proximal development in Vygotsky’s analysis of learning and instruction.

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Research-based Strategies for Teaching Sight Words

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Use Technology: There are many apps and online games that can help make learning sight words fun and interactive. These include: Contextual Analysis: Rawlins & Invernizzi underscores the significance of deriving sight words from familiar texts. This continuous cycle of analysis helps make words ‘stick.’

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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

A 2003 analysis of 15 cases of school shooters found all but two suffered from social rejection. Students who are drawn to gaming are often equally captivated by the broader technology ecosystem. This can include managers, marketing staff, technology and finance professionals, medical staff and recruiters.

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