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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

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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. sharing digitally to build knowledge.

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Pre-K Learning: Enhancing Education with Digital Technology

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A child of age four picks up an iPad and starts a game. A friendly voice from the iPad says, click on the word bake, which is colored red. Children who received high-quality, practical knowledge-based learning in their formative years are less likely to fail in high-school. This is the digital age.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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Our classrooms are more diverse. Plus: No longer do students submit a project that only the teacher sees (and then a few are posted on classroom bulletin boards). These are available 24/7 for students, not just during classroom hours. Students are digital natives, already in the habit of learning via technology.

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Beyond the Genius Bar: Cultivating Leadership With a Student-Led Tech Team

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What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? Busch's student tech teams have four sub-committees: the “Newcast Directors," the “iPad Consultants," the “Makerspace Mentors," and the “Cyber Squad." I couldn’t agree more. Our school here in Wisconsin did just that, and the results have been astounding.

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

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And we've seen test scores go from 29 percent to 68 percent in one semester when you can deliver the student the exact learning environment that they need to overcome the gap in their knowledge base. We saw a big push by schools back in 2010 and 2011 to adopt iPads on a large scale. They had no idea what to do with them.

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Novel Ideas for Writing Instruction

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“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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

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