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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. Keyboarding 101.

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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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Innovative Educators named Bammy Awards finalists!

The Innovative Educator

For his students, he made a difference by taking over a library that had become moribund, out of date, anachronistic, completely disorganized and with no technology. Secondary School Principal - Chris Lehmann Chris Lehmann not only talks the talk. " “Technology should be like oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.”

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Technology and Capstone Courses

Dr. Shannon Doak

In the Guide to Capstone Education from the National Capstone Consortium there are a series of questions posed about technology and the role it should, could or might possibly play in a capstone course. How will technology enhance the structure and requirements of the program? In “How Does Technology Facilitate Learning?

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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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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). Take Murder, Madness and Mayhem , Project Management for Instructional Designers , and Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology as examples. None of these assignments will ever see the bottom of a garbage can.

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