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

Hapara

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] When your school adopts a new edtech tool, educators may be excited or apprehensive. The SAMR Model is one way to make sure that educators are able to use a new edtech tool without feeling overwhelmed. The SAMR Model was designed by education researcher Dr. Ruben Puentedura in 2010.

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Tech Access in Schools: Making Edtech Accessible to All

Digital Promise

Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome. Students on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are even less likely to have used technology in interesting ways. percent).

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Technology for the purpose of WHAT?

Dangerously Irrelevant

Recently I had the pleasure of publishing a post on ISTE’s blog titled Before Using School Technology, Know Your EdTech Purpose. In that post, I connected the ISTE Standards for Students and the 4 Shifts Protocol. Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! Here’s an excerpt: Hope the post is useful to you. Happy reading!

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Upgrading the Remote Learning and Hybrid Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

During my time as a principal, I worked with EdTech organizations such as AVer Information in order to help ensure their solutions are relevant, up to date, and effective. The right solutions can greatly assist educators as they navigate through the new and uncertain future of teaching and learning.

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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019

Edsurge

As we look ahead to the future in edtech, we see an industry marked by significant change and stubborn challenges. 2018: A Lesson Review One frustration frequently expressed by Top Hat customers has to do with a lack of coordination among edtech solutions.

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

100mentors

In PBL, we have our students solving real-life problems and we intend to empower their 21st-century skills; in other words, we establish meaningful connections between school and life beyond school. It goes without saying that we should assess both students and these outcomes in an equally “authentic” way (Bell, 2010).

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How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. A school can have average daily attendance of 90 percent and still have 40 percent of its students chronically absent, because on different days, different students make up that 90 percent.”