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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. It also sets the stage for effective personalized learning.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. discuss two main types of prior knowledge which I want to draw your attention to: declarative prior knowledge and procedural prior knowledge.

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10 Effective Ways Teachers Can Make Learning Relevant and Meaningful

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It’s allowed me to discern not just what literature suggests but what truly works in the dynamic, ever-evolving environment of a classroom. In this post, drawing from both scholarly research and my personal experiences, I aim to share strategies that can make learning more relevant and meaningful for students.

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Hemet Unified School District Adopts LETRS for New Two-Year Professional Learning Program

eSchool News

It also offers professional learning sessions led by national LETRS experts. These sessions provide classroom application examples of the learning and refine and extend participants’ understanding of the content. Hemet USD began rolling out LETRS in March 2022 as a two-year, cohort-based program. “At

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Lessons from a school without walls

The Hechinger Report

No classroom walls divide them. “It There are no classrooms but rather a series of contiguous, multipurpose spaces arrayed around the central stairs, which themselves double as social meeting areas or lecture seats. The 10 grades are each split into groups with a designated base (analogous to a homeroom) and teacher.

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

Edsurge

It offers some anecdotes about how Steve Jobs thought about computers in education, including how he referred to computers as an “amplifier for intellect” the same way a bicycle amplifies the physical push of the rider. There's a new application called Classroom, which allows a teacher to monitor the classroom. This was 1978.

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The Divided Stories of Education Reform, Personal Cognitive Revolutions, and New Superheroes

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I will not hide my perspective on this: I find this focus not just counter to research into productivity in knowledge-based activities (see Dan Pink''s Drive for references), but believe it actually invites into the educational arena the short-cut numerical achievement tactics which have characterized the economic debacles of our day.