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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. In this culminating project-based unit, students design prototypes for real users that address issues related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

When used appropriately, these tools can help educators create learning environments that incorporate key research-backed principles shown to underlie effective learning in the following ways: Supporting personalized, differentiated and self-paced learning. Supporting collaborative learning.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

’ You might even understand the purpose of a PLN–to provide educators with a collaborative learning environment–but think you don’t need one, or staff development provided by your school is all you can handle. Or maybe you think, ‘Of course [Amanda] has a PLN. She’s a geek.’ What is a PLN.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

We are seeing schools and districts starting to be more creative and collaborative with PD, expanding beyond school-wide workshops to include professional learning that recognizes the existing competencies and knowledge base individual educators bring to their work.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

This knowledge (especially in knowledge based industries) becomes the organization’s product. As a result, the management of knowledge becomes more than access to embedded knowledge; it becomes the organization’s identity. Re-embedding situatedness: The importance of power relations in learning theory.

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Technology Tools Used in Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

This accessibility broadens students’ knowledge base and encourages independent exploration. This allows class time to be dedicated to interactive discussions, collaborative activities, and hands-on projects. Real-time assessment: Technology tools allow for real-time assessment and immediate feedback.