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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? According to the study, learners who only received teacher training and did not engage with the online learning tools had poorer achievement scores. Teachers enjoy a boost in student engagement The use of interactive technology helps make lessons fascinating.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. The implications of these findings are far-reaching for educators and researchers.

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A Guide to Choosing an Interactive Learning Platform

ViewSonic Education

Great online learning platforms go beyond traditional lesson delivery by offering a range of interactive elements, from virtual classrooms and multimedia presentations to discussion forums and dynamic assessments. This can help improve the engagement, motivation, and comprehension of students.

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Students who are not performing at grade level in the core subject matters (Dove & Honigsfeld, 2013, pp.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

KITABOO is one of the best digital tools for the classroom because its content is designed for bite-sized learning with knowledge nuggets, interactive assessments and gamification. The platform facilitates instant assessments and feedback so teachers can stay connected to their pupils in real-time.

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

Ask a Tech Teacher

Teachers get tangled in a web of standards, mission statements, and assessments, and spend too much time on what their institution considers essential. We can’t teach students everything they’ll ever need but what we can inspire them to be lifelong learners, to know how to figure something out when it slaps them in the face.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

Neuroscience, and the measurement of emotional immersion, will become a key innovation and a new precision metric of student engagement. Focusing on how students learn rather than what they learn will eventually lead to changes in conceptual frameworks of “teaching” and instructional practices.

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