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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

Ask a Tech Teacher

An article on “ the importance of ICT in the classroom ” by a professional acquaintance of mine, Hayley Bertwistle, makes a similar point far more succinctly than I could and she is far from alone in making it. When looked at in this manner, it is like saying the walls of your house are the foundation rather than what is under your feet.

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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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Innovative Educators named Bammy Awards finalists!

The Innovative Educator

He also is always on a quest to support students in learning in ways aligned to their interests, strengths and talents as he wrote about in this great lesson that he implemented [link] For his colleagues at his school, Deven has led the development of a more technology-capable staff through one-to-one training of tech-phobic or reluctant teachers.

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Access State-Reviewed Instructional Materials with SETDA’s Dashboard

edWeb.net

A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Technology and Capstone Courses

Dr. Shannon Doak

Technology can enhance the structure and requirements of the program by enabling students to do more. In “How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? Furthermore, technology can assist the structure and requirements of the program by supporting students in their own ability to keep track of and organize data gathered through the project.

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An Obstacle to the Ubiquitous Adoption of OER in US Higher Education

Iterating Toward Openness

see this article on the $400 textbook ) for open educational resources (OER). Three of the articles written for Murder, Madness and Mayhem achieved Featured Article status on Wikipedia and have already been viewed by hundreds of thousands of readers with hundreds of thousands more to come.

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