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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

Train: If you’re an administrator, schedule a faculty training session on how to use your school’s technology and answer any questions.[11]. Media-literate students should be aware how to combat misinformation, think critically, and evaluate their sources. March 2020. How to Teach a Room of Digital Natives.” Bowman, Sam.

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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

Edsurge

It forced school systems to not only rethink their instruction but also figure out how to best use technology to facilitate instruction. Before the pandemic, teachers across the country taught students how to read, how to code and how to determine mathematical concepts like the area of a circle mostly from in front of the classroom.

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Choice and Engagement During a Pandemic #engaginglitminds

Reading By Example

If you want to read more about choice, I recommend the 2004 book The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz). We were thrown into this situation – no precedence for how to teach through a pandemic or how to keep the same quality of learning. This post is part of our 2020 Summer Book Study. What perfect timing. .

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Example: Teach students how to critically evaluate media representations of race. By facilitating discussions and encouraging critical analysis, educators can equip students with the tools they need to navigate media thoughtfully and responsibly. Practical Steps: Use current events or media examples to facilitate critical discussions.

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Performative Youth: The Literacy Possibilities of De-essentializing Adolescence

Educator Innovator

This article details the ways in which one educator, Rachel (a pseudonym), redesigned her AP English curriculum to support students in reading a variety of texts using a “Youth Lens” (Petrone, Sarigianides, & Lewis, 2004).

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Rethinking Recess Leads to Results On and Off the Playground

Edsurge

The nonprofit began to scale its model nationally in 2004. They learn how to model good behavior and how to explain the rules of the games they learn to different ages. They're making good decisions about what to do and how to solve the problems that come up naturally.” We're not seeing the problems.

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New early-college high school to pair students with neuroscientists

The Hechinger Report

Six Florida high school students are spending this year at the prestigious Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience , learning data science techniques and how to use them to analyze images of the brain. The Max Planck Academy, then, will be an expansion of a model FAU High School started in 2004, when it opened with just seven students.

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