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How Technology Can Help Deepen Students’ Learning

EdNews Daily

In order to do that, we need to ensure that students regularly operate at the deepest levels of learning: analyzing, breaking things down, making connections, evaluating different situations, etc. Deep learning constitutes the three top levels of Bloom’s taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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New Online Platform from Vernier Boosts High School Students’ STEM Learning with Fun, Interactive Investigations and Projects

eSchool News

BEAVERTON, Oregon, March 31, 2022 — Leveraging standards-based instructional content and its award-winning technology, Vernier Software & Technology is announcing Vernier Connections , an innovative web-based platform to engage high school students in hands-on STEM learning and exploration.

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

Since the days of writing on wooden shingles with charcoal in one-room school houses, an increasing array of objects – pencils, paper, scissors, paste, books, and microscopes, to name a few – have been routinely used in classrooms to help students deepen understanding and record and communicate what they learned.

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From pencils to pixels: Tech is shaping the future of education

eSchool News

Undoubtedly, the pandemic accelerated the shift to technology adoption in schools. However, this push to digitize doesn’t just involve remote learning technologies, but also tools for in-person learning. These touchscreens help bring learning alive, off the page and into the actual world.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. E-textbooks: A Personalized Learning Experience or a Digital Distraction? Educational Technology Support!

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Teacher Self-Reflection is Hard. Here’s How Technology Can Help

Edthena

That’s the reason why teacher self-reflection is included in most schools’ professional learning standards and rubrics. Technology such as AI Coach by Edthena can serve as a teacher self-reflection tool. Technology supports educators with the analysis and meaning-making of their teaching, the first step to teacher self-reflection.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy and the implications it has for a digital classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a teaching framework that classifies learning from lower order to higher order thinking. So to put it simply, remembering is the most basic part of the learning process and creating something entirely new from what has been learnt, is the most complex. Technology or pedagogy?

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