Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

At the same time, innovative education leaders and classroom teachers are engaging, motivating, and nurturing students to develop mindsets for college and career readiness and lifelong learning, and they are supporting social and emotional development. Education researchers and neuroscientists are learning more about how people learn.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Context matters, especially when it comes to classroom learning. It's a double-edged sword: Students and teachers have more access to digital media than ever before. Overall, it's essential to think about whether digital media and technology are enhancing students' learning, or potentially even detracting from it.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The answer is to value staff by providing them with relevant learning opportunities as they work. In many large organisations today this is changing, with learning and development now conducted largely while employees are on the move, or sitting at their work stations. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 2, 2018

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul. Despite that feeling, there are options.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. Wait, TVs to Support Collaboration? Access wasn't the only problem, explains Rugg. TED Talk: Why Technology Can’t Fix Education.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district, one of the largest in the United States, are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving. About the Presenters.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I was asked to write an opinion piece for the Western Morning News earlier this week as a response to the comments from Ofsted and their advisers on the use of technology in schools. Many teachers are left wondering whether personal technologies such as smartphones actually have a place in education and what risks and threats accompany them.

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