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TPACK model: Strategies for effective educational technology integration

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Have you ever stepped into a classroom decked out with technology, but the learning goals for the technology weren’t clear? But if technology isn’t paired with good teaching and a tie-in to the subject matter, what’s the point? In 2006, Punya Mishra and Matthew J.

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OPINION: The world is changing fast. Students need data science instruction ASAP

The Hechinger Report

What do all these new tools and technologies have in common? Generative AI algorithms, like those used to create ChatGPT, train on large language datasets. Getting the data to fuel these technologies immediately leads to challenges with bias, accuracy, privacy and intellectual property rights.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with 'e's

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. During this time I also worked closely with several leading NHS surgeons and physicians as they developed new techniques and explored new technologies.

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4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking

Catlin Tucker

More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). Ultimately, our classrooms are a training ground for life.

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6 Practical Blended Learning Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

’s Study In the study “ Using Blended Learning in Training the Public Health Workforce in Emergency Preparedness ,” Moore and colleagues (2006) investigate the utility of a blended learning approach in public health emergency training. Moore et al.’s link] Moore, G. Judge, C., & Koh, H.

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Spaced repetition is the secret to overcoming learning loss

eSchool News

In fact, spaced repetition is the key to all learning of knowledge-heavy subjects, from preschool literacy and numeracy exercises through high school, corporate training, and beyond. In 2006, I lived and worked in Panama and so it became a priority to learn Spanish. So what’s “the tea?” Let’s start with a story.

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From Boilers to Vape Sensors, the ‘Internet of Things’ Means More Work for Schools

Edsurge

Sandra Paul doesn’t typically don a safety helmet and work boots to perform her job as director of information technology and operations for a 7,200-student school district in New Jersey. Overall, she says the internet of things is beneficial to schools that want to save money on overhead and a boon for creating new technology jobs.

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