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How Technology Can Help Deepen Students’ Learning

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For example, if we taught students the elements of the periodic table, gave them a multiple-choice test afterward, and then moved on to another topic, that would be surface-level learning. Fortunately, technology tools can provide support for each stage. Technology-Supported Surface-Level Learning.

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Technology Makes or Breaks Esports Programs

EdTech Magazine

Esports Equipment Can Support Other School Initiatives. In competitive gaming, milliseconds matter , and the technology supporting students can make or break an esports venture. For example, schools looking to bring VR equipment into the classroom often try to ensure the machines will also support an esports program.

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Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching

EdNews Daily

At those two levels, teachers are using technology in ways that allow students to create content for themselves, share that content with each other, explore subject matter, and communicate with one another in ways that aren’t possible in a more traditional environment. At this level, teachers are redesigning tasks via technology.

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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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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

SHENINGER: We need to be open to ideas and we need to know where to go to find good examples of what works in the classroom. However, it’s important to note that a lot of change can happen with little to no budget to support it. How does the technology actually improve on what we’ve done in the past? Content Subtype. Engagement.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

Ask a Tech Teacher

For example, you could just look at a map and do some measurements, or you can get out there with a trusty surveyor’s wheel and chart a space and learn real applications. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discusses this: Explicit typing, simulated application and practical application – Why is this not a thing?

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

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Technology supports educators with the analysis and meaning-making of their teaching, the first step to teacher self-reflection. For example, a search for “better checks for understanding” returns back 4.9 Teachers don’t have time to spend poring through articles. This is what we call the research rabbit hole.