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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

While autonomous school buses may be far down the road, companies like RobotLAB are already designing interactive learning experiences that incorporate autonomous machine s to teach programming. Analysts predict the line between the real and digital worlds will continue to blur as current technologies advance and new tools are developed.

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Tips and Strategies to Boost Student Engagement

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Disruptions like school openings and closures, shifts between remote, hybrid, and in-person learning, new policies and procedures, and the loss of shared traditions have made things difficult for everyone. Tips to help students get engaged with learning: 1. Acknowledge students' social and emotional well-being.

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Screen Time in School: Finding the Right Balance for Your Classroom

Graphite Blog

If you're like me, you might notice a huge difference between how fast and well you read on a phone or laptop versus a paper magazine or book. In Redefinition, digital tools enable a complete reimagining of the learning activity. Bring media balance into your curriculum. Reinforce Media Balance at Home.

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The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. The organization’s blog offers useful insights and advice on classroom technologies, digital citizenship, personalized learning and more.

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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Teachers combine the three elements in ways they see fit to personalize learning in their classrooms. ” “The model pulls together the best from modern learning theories and BC teachers’ advice. focus on higher-order learning. address Core Competencies. integrate Aboriginal world views and knowledge.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Alec Couros is a Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, networked learning, social media in education, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” ” But what did Facebook do?