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

Hapara

Their strategies should be tied to pedagogy. It includes teaching strategies, learning activities and assessments. If they build on the foundations of teaching, using new strategies and technology, they’ll be able to support the type of learners they have today. Their tools should be focused on pedagogy. So what is pedagogy?

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

Edsurge

The design of a summer adventure program at Santa Fe Public Schools exemplifies some of the best of these emerging acceleration strategies. Focus on gatekeeper standards. While acceleration strategy encourages exposure to grade-level standards, it also acknowledges that not all standards are created equal.

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FETC Future of Educational Technology… Orlando Florida… Please Join Me!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

First… I hope you enjoyed the over 150 STEM Resources in the last few posts. In the space below I have posted my contribution to FETC and promise you will walk away with some amazing ideas, resources, strategies, and future collaborators. I also have also provided those over 150 STEM Resources. January 27 – 30.

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New AI tool helps teachers tackle math

eSchool News

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

Edsurge

Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. That said, those paths are not fixed in stone.

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Tomorrow’s New Normal: What It Means for Professional Development

edWeb.net

She is a contributor to state and local academic standards and teaching exemplars that help create high learning expectations and opportunities for all students. Her focus as the professional development specialist is to deliver tailored professional development to all staff while supporting campus-wide AVID strategies (WICOR).

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

Edsurge

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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