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How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies

eSchool News

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning. In elementary settings, AI-powered educational tools can provide personalized learning experiences tailored to each student’s needs and interests.

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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

The two-story building also includes a makerspace and comfortable chairs in the library, a large courtyard with a covered patio that can serve as an outdoor class­room, and an Innovation Station that houses a computer lab, 3D printers, a video and audio production ­studio and a workshop where students build things.

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The Neuroscience of Surprise and How It Improves Learning?

The CoolCatTeacher

Today we will discuss how surprise applies to learning. Head to Lum.io, an award-winning digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences for more information and to sign up for FREE. Hypnotic conditions: Are they present in the elementary classroom?

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Can children learn from a “mixed-reality” game?

The Hechinger Report

Two Forest Grove Elementary School students show off their block structures for Nesra Yannier to photograph during an experiment. PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Photo: Jill Barshay. Photo: Jill Barshay.

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This global classroom features Mystery Skype and collaboration projects

eSchool News

Classroom walls don’t exist to Toni Olivieri-Barton, a library technology educator at Fountain Valley School. “Students need to learn at a young level that they have similarities and differences” with students from Mexico, Ireland, Kazakhstan and other countries, she said. She also taught in China.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Reading fluency is essential for effective reading comprehension at any age, but it’s especially critical once students go from ‘learning to read’ to ‘reading to learn.’ New technology in the library or for your counselors? Diane Myers, Ph. Information from these sources will guide your decisions.

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What Kids Can Learn When Blocks Get A Tech Boost

MindShift

PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. Kids love them.

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