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Empowerment Through Choice

A Principal's Reflections

The underlying idea in this approach is that choice gives employees a sense of personal control, which can enhance their intrinsic motivation towards their work, resulting in higher morale, creativity and innovation, better performance, more significant organizational commitment, and lower turnover (Chua and Iyengar, 2006). Case in point.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. As such, teaching and learning are “always mediated or shaped by cultural influences, they can never be culturally neutral” (Gay, 2018, p. xii cited in Gay, p.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Students always receive feedback on their answers and if they’re wrong, they’re given feedback on how to answer similar questions in the future. Even simple feedback, such as right or wrong, has been correlated with student learning outcomes (Faber et al., American Educational Research Journal, 48(2), 462-501. Rittle-Johnson, B.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. And it places women in leadership positions throughout the school.