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4 focus areas to embrace innovation and avoid school system failure

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The school systems and dynamic leaders that embrace change will succeed and create an educational environment that is more equitable and prepares students for their futures. Those districts and systems have successfully implemented changes and innovations since the pandemic started.

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Free computer training resources and courses

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As technology changes and schools upgrade software, add new apps, change hardware or operating systems, and more, faculty, staff and students need training and support. The Office 2010 course is great and I am sharing it with our users to help them transition from Office 2003 to Office 2010 because of the different menu system.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

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Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts. To master keyboarding, one must be able to let fingers flow freely (Waner, Behymer, & McCrary, 1992), a concept backed by Bloom’s idea of automaticity and discussed by Wronkovich (1998), who defines it as a “system of automatic habits corresponding to the system of tasks”.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

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His message was that classroom rituals are a training ground for power dynamics students face out in the real world. A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. Davidson has spent her career encouraging innovation in education. Trust your students.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

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The schools have “guides,” not teachers, and there are specialized training programs to become one.) No wonder, then, that “Montessori education is often seen as niche and elitist,” says Joel Mendes, executive director of Prepared Montessorian, a program that provides training to teachers and parents in Montessori methods.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

This tactic has been popular among military training applications for quite some time. If virtual reality is reliable enough to train our armed forces, is there any reason not to implement the same technique at educational institutions across the world?

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What Can Traditional Higher Ed Learn From Hamburger U?

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And as they do their homework on how to set up and run their online programs, some colleges are even looking to other sectors, like the corporate trainings that big companies run for their employees online. Kidwell: Back in 2003, real estate was a crazy market. I was at Keller Williams Realty, which was a small regional player.

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