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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. From a broader perspective, this discussion about prior knowledge also underscores the need for personalized learning approaches.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur. It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material.

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How to Keep Student Minds Open to New Worldviews Even When Campus Is Closed

Edsurge

Interfaith friendships seem to form when students engage with peers of other worldviews both formally and informally, such as while socializing or using a shared interfaith space on campus. One potential avenue for action is to ensure that required diversity courses meaningfully and intentionally incorporate religion.

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5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students login – no email required. The website is easy to navigate and the variety of material keeps students engaged for hours (really — I’m serious). Many students need help to learn the right way to keyboard and how to type with speed and accuracy. Let students pick the skills they would like to learn.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

We hear a lot of talk now in Ed Tech circles about how we can get these students engaged and speak a language that they’re speaking. We bring these students into a virtual world. So in the program that I use, the Anne Frank house was actually re-designed in the virtual environment for the students to visit.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

I’m pleased to say that more and more education leaders and technology products providers are regularly talking and doing something about this. Educators will prioritize SEL over technology controls as cyberbullying deterrents. The amount of data that is in educators’ hands can be overwhelming.

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

Ask a Tech Teacher

Once students graduate from the traditional education system, there are several ways to learn more of what they want to know including: Adult education — the acquisition of formal qualifications or work and leisure skills when formal education ends. Knowledge work — includes professional development and on-the-job training.

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