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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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Scaffolding Questions to Develop Deeper Understanding

A Principal's Reflections

The message that I try to convey is that technology should not be separate from sound instructional design, but instead serve as a ubiquitous entity that supports or enhances curriculum, instruction, and assessment. While conducting some coaching visits at Wells Elementary School recently, I saw Ms. Mican using Quizizz.

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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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Rediscovering @CK12Foundation Flexbooks And More!

The Web20Classroom

Something that could adapt with the ever changing knowledge base educators and students could pull from along with being more personal. There are Flexbooks for middle school and even some for Elementary Math. A while back there was a push to move away from traditional textbooks and move to something more flexible and nimble.

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

Edsurge

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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ETA hand2mind Unveils Daily Math Fluency at 2018 NCSM/NCTM Conferences

techlearning

Developed by elementary math expert Brittany Goerig, Daily Math Fluency activities are designed using visual models and manipulatives to support classroom math curriculum without cutting into instructional time. She spent 17 years in the classroom as an elementary math teacher.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

Edsurge

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. And that assessment should not be something where you take the kids out of a learning environment, throw them into a lab and test them separately. So we probably had more education software in the early, early days of the PC than anyone else. This was 1978.