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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this post, we will delve into the intricacies of prior knowledge, guided by significant research findings, discuss some of its types and examples, and explore how this understanding can transform educational practices. The implications of these findings are far-reaching for educators and researchers.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. It allows each person to contribute with shorter deadlines and individual deliverables and makes it easier to assess each person’s contribution. Make space for students to truly work as a team. Collaborate with teachers in your school.

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

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Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. While it can be hard to share out the myriad of little things teachers do that are so effective, we do have a tool that can help—data. Build a PD playbook.

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Novel Ideas for Writing Instruction

techlearning

All of our teachers have had ample professional development in writing process and pedagogy, which helps to provide a strong knowledge base around the most effective practices,” says Gale. The district is seeing great results from its investment in technology-based tools and in training teachers to use them.

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Is It Time To Go Back To Basics With Writing Instruction?

MindShift

If language was breaking down at the level of the sentence, I didn’t know how to break it down or what to do about it,” Scharff Panero said. And I didn’t know how to expect more.”. There’s a belief that you immerse kids in it and they kind of figure it out,” Scharff Panero said. wrote below grade level and only 3 percent of U.S.

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

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Teachers committed to true anti-racist instruction and learning must ask themselves: What are the knowledge bases of early childhood education that reproduce racial inequalities? Are certain voices, experiences, and identities excluded from how we conceptualize early childhood education? Anti-Racist Education: How to Get There.

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