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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

This evidence can be drawn from various sources, such as research articles, data sets, personal observations, or historical examples. Historical Debates: Students could make claims about historical interpretations, provide evidence from primary and secondary sources, and ask questions about different historical perspectives.

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Guest post: Using EdTech and AI to reduce social inequality

EdTech4Beginners

An article on the newspaper “The Independent” in 2017 claims that the gap between the number of students from private and public schools to reach university has never been larger. And last year, an article on the newspaper “The Guardian” argued for the complete abolishment of privates schools in the country.

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Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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What is plagiarism?

PlagiarismCheck

Meanwhile, referencing incorrect or even non-existing resources, inaccurate authorship, or citing primary sources contained in the secondary source instead of addressing the original are all variations of plagiarism. Some students do not even realize that they significantly violate the rules by being unattentive to referencing their sources.

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AI Is Everywhere. Now It Wants to Teach You Chinese.

Edsurge

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin. There’s definitely a lot of source material.

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Piaget Stages – The Development Of Intelligence and Reason

Fractus Learning

This article explores the four stages of Piaget’s theory of intellectual development and how caregivers and teachers can practically apply it today. . Secondary Circular Reactions. From 8 months to a year, children develop coordination of secondary schemas; the child begins to show intentional actions. Age: 2 to 7 years.

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The shape of minds to come

Learning with 'e's

She made some important contributions to his stages of cognitive development theory (which will be featured in greater depth in some upcoming articles on this blog). The transition between primary (elementary) school and secondary (high) school is marked when children reach the age of 11 (or 12 in some countries such as Scotland).