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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This involves recognizing, respecting, and using students’ cultural backgrounds and experiences as conduits for effective teaching and learning. But culture is an elusive concept and mandates a definition here. 8) But what’s the relation between culture and teaching, one might ask? Retrieved from [link]. Griffo, V.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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