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What is the SAMR Model and how can it enhance student engagement?

Hapara

Read on for a full rundown of how it can help educators use technology to enhance student engagement. The SAMR Model was designed by education researcher Dr. Ruben Puentedura in 2010. He explained that his research at Harvard as a graduate student in the 1980s led to the SAMR Model. What is the SAMR Model then?

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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Writing deepens learning and positively impacts academic performance, improves our students’ ability to establish and maintain relationships, and helps students manage their complex emotions. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016). Plus, it works across all subject areas! Kiuhara, S.

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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha

Edsurge

The guest, Allison Russell, was talking about the emotional intelligence of young people and mentioned that she’d just learned that her daughter was part of Generation Alpha , which refers to people born after 2010. I had questions and I wanted to know more. From their earliest years, he says, “they have been screenagers.”

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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Practice Guided practice is when the students engage in learning target activities under the guidance of a support system that can assure success. Feedback is valuable when it is received, understood and acted on (Nicol, 2010). Assessment is an integral component of a coherent educational experience. & Cocking, R.

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Teaching and Learning in a Project-Based World – #6 Evaluating Project-Based Learning

100mentors

It is now time to break down the last stage of this process: evaluating projects and assessing students. While project evaluation can be an interesting – even pleasant – process for educators, student assessment can be quite tricky. How do we respond to this challenge by assessing innovatively?

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ChatGPT, Am I Who You Say I Am?

My Island View

I have had my own blog site, My Island View , since January 15, 2010, so I have amassed a great number of posts on many aspects of education. In terms of his views on education, Tom believes in learning-centered teaching, student-learning assessment, and student engagement. I have been using an App called ChatAI.

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30 Effective Classroom Attention Getters with Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In the dynamic world of education, keeping students engaged and attentive is a challenge every educator faces. 2010) linked boredom to attentional problems in class, while Maroldo (1986) noted its association with lower GPAs and a decreased motivation to learn. 2010; Ziv, 1988). Boredom, as Vogel-Walcutt et al.

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