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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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Understanding concepts: What is digital citizenship?

Hapara

Digital citizenship tools for teachers Edtech tools that support digital citizenship make it easier to teach students while learning is happening. ✔️ K-12 lessons and courses will help your school make digital citizenship a priority in addition to academic standards. appeared first on Hāpara.

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What is pedagogy? Understanding the foundations of effective teaching and learning

Hapara

Educators can do this through consistent formative feedback based on academic standards so learners can progress toward more complex activities. FREE E-BOOK FOR EDUCATORS Explore SEL strategies that will help you create a more positive and equitable school and district culture. Download now The post What is pedagogy?

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How to Improve Student Engagement at Scale

eSpark

Students vote on what books they’d like to read as a class. Most teachers simply don’t have enough time or energy to write rigorous lessons that both engage students and meet a diversity of academic needs. Guiding Questions: What are my students interested in? How can I tap into this interest? Interaction.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

The next question gets asked just as often, said Guernsey, whose book Screen Time , looks at ways electronic media affect young children. “Is Knowledge pills, robo-graders, brain implants and other dystopian edtech. Photo by Jennifer Dev. Is screen time bad?”. Live from SXSWEdu: #NewSATs or No SATs? Digital Learning Day cometh.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

of Education, author of 12 books including the recent Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Danger to Our Public Schools; Cindy Cisneros , Vice President of Education Programs at the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board; and Gavin Dykes , from England, Managing Director of Cellcove, Ltd.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. But poorly integrated standards, curriculum, assessment, and intervention materials have always been a problem. A follow-up post will explore what’s changed (or not) on the supply side—both industry and investment.