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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

One way that we can exercise that is through our one-to-one initiative. We created opportunities for teachers to use mentor texts — so anything related to Genius Hour, MakerSpace, gamification — a lot of most recently published texts through practitioners and facilitators in the education world right now.

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Pigeon Pedagogy

Hack Education

The irony, of course. It has become a routine exercise to demonstrate this in classes in elementary psychology by conditioning such an organism as a pigeon.”. Gamification. That is, rather than punishing the dog when she misbehaves, the dog should be rewarded when she exhibits the desired behavior. Notifications.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Elizabeth Bassford, Vice President of Content & Implementation, Curriculum Associates As the multidisciplinary nature of astronomy is recognized, schools should look to expand curriculums with more astronomy-focused courses in 2024. They need the power to exercise their skill sets. Diane Myers, Ph.

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Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control

Hack Education

The other, of course, being Sigmund Freud.). The pigeons would peck at the target; the pecking in turn would control the missile’s tail fins, keeping it on course, via a metal conductor connected to the birds’ beak, transmitting the force of the pecking to the missile’s guidance system. Gamification.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Elizabeth Bassford, Vice President of Content & Implementation, Curriculum Associates As the multidisciplinary nature of astronomy is recognized, schools should look to expand curriculums with more astronomy-focused courses in 2024. They need the power to exercise their skill sets. Diane Myers, Ph.

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Re·Con·Figures: The Pigeons of Ed-tech

Hack Education

Education technology is not always loyal to institutions, of course; it’s not always loyal to democracy either; it’s not always loyal to learning or to teaching – to students or to teachers; but it’s always fiercely loyal to itself and its own rationale, to its own existence. The computer programming the child.”

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. Schools are turning to creative solutions such as immersive technology and gamification in the classroom. — Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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