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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

As it turns out, what students say they want from their school experience, or about learning in general, can be rather illuminating for those charged with teaching them. And we also talked about screen time, self-directed learning and why kids today don’t drust dot com domains. For students today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). When teachers and schools engage in high-quality collaboration, it leads to better achievement gains in math and reading for students.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

While individual members may have differing levels of competency, the group must be able to work collaboratively to achieve group norms and defined level of competency. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002).

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Organizational learning theories

Connecting 2 the World

The first is based on the idea of organizational knowledge management in which knowledge is codified into information which the organization and individuals can access, monitor, acquire, and store (Allee, 1997; Contu & Willmott, 2003; Raelin, 2008). Organizational learning: A socio-cognitive framework. References: Akgun, A.,

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student generated content as a collaborative learning tool, British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995.

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Five Ways Design and Making Can Help Science Education Come Alive

MindShift

Studies show that the best predictor of STEM career choice in adulthood is linked to whether kids self-report seeing themselves as scientists when they grow up by 8th grade (Maltese & Tai, 2011). 2003; Cornett 1986). They act, think and work as real scientists and inventors. Joy and laughter should be welcome in any classroom.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These principles of Universal Design have transitioned into the educational sphere through various models, such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL; Rose & Meyer, 2000), Universal Design for Instruction (UDI; Scott et al., 2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., Universal Design for Learning.

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