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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

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Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., 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. link] Coulter, S. 19-01-0021.

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

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They’re definitely not ideal replacements in terms of what we were looking for,” he says. Natick Public Schools has been using TenMarks since it launched in 2009, Nolin says. Curley says they decided on a combination of IXL and DreamBox and have been ramping up with those products in recent months.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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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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Key Digital Skills for 21st Century Teachers

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Richard Riley, Secretary of Education under Clinton, quoted in Trilling & Fadel, 2009, p. Whether you are teaching online or in a hybrid setting, you will definitely fall back on their service to help with communicating ideas, illustrating main points, and sharing information in visually consie ways.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) But these outlandish claims of a powerful piece of learning software never matched what materialized.

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