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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D., I need to reiterate with my teachers that the tech tool itself isn't the be all, end all,” Ballard said.

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How Classroom Furniture Has Evolved in the Last Decade

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Since 2007, flexible and collaborative learning spaces have been on the rise.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom. The concept of a 21st-century classroom has evolved significantly.

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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

But the reality is that there are not enough people with this background in the edtech industry. The journey into the edtech industry is different for everyone. Like many fellow founders in this space, I left the classroom to create solutions to the challenges that I faced as a teacher and tech director.

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Edtech and Social Emotional Learning #sel

The CoolCatTeacher

Edtech and Social Emotional Learning. In my own classroom, I have my students run Hour of Code each December for the whole school – grades K5- sixth grade. Have you seen some other edtech tools besides Minecraft that can have this kind of social emotional impact? Transcript for Episode 137. They become more empathetic.

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How to Improve Checks for Understanding

A Principal's Reflections

The background knowledge that students bring into the classroom influences how they understand the material you share and the lessons or learning opportunities you provide. Hattie and Timperley (2007) identified these phases as feed-up, feedback, and feed-forward.

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Want Easier Principal Walkthroughs? Try Virtual Classroom Walkthroughs

Edthena

Principal walkthroughs are a strategy often used by school leaders and team leaders to sample instruction across multiple classroom environments. But even before Covid-19 upended our PD routines, organizing a walkthrough required the observer to block out an amount of time to see all classrooms in one go. Virtual walk-throughs.

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