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What is Active Learning? And Why it Matters

ViewSonic Education

Incorporating active learning in a lecture-based curriculum can be challenging. 6 To use the mini-lecture approach, the instructor delivers information in short chunks. During this final phase, the instructor steps in as a guide as needed to clarify information. Game-based learning. Collaborative learning groups.

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Blended Learning – How to Make it Work in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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5 Tips for Student Engagement and Concept Retention

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In today’s world, students need even less than 8 seconds to access information or find an answer to their question with search engines and online databases. This reliance poses a threat to the actual retention of knowledge learned in the classroom. For more information, see “Using Gaming Principles to Engage Students” .

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Active learning spaces

Learning with 'e's

Recently I wrote about collaborative learning spaces , and argued that we are entering unfamiliar territory. The boundaries of informal and formal spaces have blurred significantly, as have the boundaries between the real and the virtual. It appears that it no longer matters where learning occurs, as long as it is meaningful.

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Tips & Tools to Enhance Collaboration Between Tech & Curriculum

techlearning

Our educators are using Newsela’s categories of readings to find articles that lend themselves to comparisons or even the pro/con option in text set. This information is recorded in the K column of the chart. Curriculum is the foundation for planning and learning for students. These questions are listed in the W column.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Organizations and institutions spring into action, including gathering information about the scope of the problem and implementing emergency solutions. Now we are in the phase of sorting out which solutions have the best results so we can consolidate learning and direct resources appropriately.

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At the end of our tether

Learning with 'e's

We are living at a time in our history where the small device in the hand of the student is able to provide opportunities for any time, any place learning. The fact is, untethered learning is evident all around us. Increasingly, people are learning informally through their mobile devices.