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Navigating the digital landscape by fostering classroom digital wellness

Hapara

Listen to an audio version of this post: Because most classrooms integrate technology now, it’s not enough to teach academic standards. Digital learning can be engaging and meaningful and prepare students for life beyond school. With strategies and tools, educators can create a balanced and safe digital learning environment.

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Approaching an Online Computer Science Degree: What You Need to Know

EdTech4Beginners

Understanding the Online Learning Environment Embracing the online learning landscape is the first step toward your academic success. Prospective students should prepare to adapt to a virtual classroom setting, where interactions happen through screens and learning materials are predominantly digital.

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An Expanded Definition of Student Success

Digital Promise

To help accomplish their vision – that every students get not just to but through college – Brooklyn Lab leverages Cortex, a digital learning platform where student data and work can be accessed by students, teachers, parents, and administrators alike. Mastery of Rigorous Standards. Positive Youth Development.

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Six Steps to Project Based Learning

eSpark

The new legislation urged districts to embrace project based instruction aligned to academic standards and 21st century skills. Luckily, the vast majority of successful project based learning activities share a set of key characteristics that educators can replicate in the classroom and across a district. 1) Essential Question.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Vice President and Managing Director at SIIA, made this statement in a recent edWebinar , with Jeff Mao, CEO, Edmoxie LLC, Bruce Umpstead, Director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Ilya Zeldin, Founder and CEO of 2gnoMe.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

eSpark

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

eSpark

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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