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Relevant Thinking and Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

The ability to think relevantly enables them to connect classroom learning with real-world applications, fostering deeper learning and cultivating critical life competencies such as problem-solving, adaptability, and creativity. Educators should ensure students have a firm grasp of essential information in the classroom before progressing.

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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. online information. cloud computing.

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The Siri and Alexa Test

A Principal's Reflections

Whereas in the past, knowledge could be readily accessed from encyclopedias and books, this took time. The Internet drastically changed this process by ushering us all into the Information Age. Artificial intelligence is now a disruptive force that allows anyone to instantaneously access basic knowledge and facts.

STEM 473
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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

As the teacher leading my SXSWedu classroom, I made a wrongful assumption my entire class entered the room with the same knowledge base. Teachers have been surfing the Web for lesson plans and ideas for their classroom for years. Define OERs. If you want to integrate OERs successfully, I’d suggest starting here….

OER 168
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What is Constructivism and How Does it Fit Your Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Because new information is blended into prior knowledge, the result is – of course – subjective, heavily dependent upon the personal lens of each learner. That, in turn, is dependent upon their society, culture, past knowledge, personal experiences, and more. It is an active response to the receipt of new information.

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A Guide to Choosing an Interactive Learning Platform

ViewSonic Education

Interactivity in the Classroom Gone are the days of passive learning, where students simply absorbed information without playing an active role in their learning. Today, the aim is to foster peer collaboration, engagement with digital tools, and teacher-student communication within the classroom.

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First AI-powered School Year Begins, Ushering in a New Era in Education

eSchool News

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.