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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. discuss two main types of prior knowledge which I want to draw your attention to: declarative prior knowledge and procedural prior knowledge.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. ET for a webinar “ How to Create Powerful STEM Learning Experiences with Technology, ” where I will share more about student collaboration, the engineering design process, and project-based learning.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

District leaders, school administrators and educators need sustained support to effectively and respectfully implement the shifts behind a curricular mandate like this. Professional development is a key part of building awareness of this absence and a knowledge-base for the educators who will be teaching students directly.

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Connecting Computer Science to Today's World

Tech Helpful

Recently I had the opportunity to talk with a STEM district leader and heard concerns about teaching both more and higher level computer science classes in their district. STEM jobs are the fastest growing need in our country today but so many states need to step up to create more fluid opportunities for this to happen.

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ETA hand2mind Unveils Daily Math Fluency at 2018 NCSM/NCTM Conferences

techlearning

Developed by elementary math expert Brittany Goerig, Daily Math Fluency activities are designed using visual models and manipulatives to support classroom math curriculum without cutting into instructional time. She spent 17 years in the classroom as an elementary math teacher. per grade level.

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Reading Role Models: Why They Matter for Boys

Fractus Learning

I see it as imperative for both genders to thrive, not just survive, in the global, knowledge-based, information/technology-driven world they’ll live and work in together as adults. More women than in the past are graduating from college in the STEM fields, and for the first time, women make up the majority of law school students.

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Is It Time To Go Back To Basics With Writing Instruction?

MindShift

Most educators acknowledge that literacy is important, but often the focus is on reading because for a long time that is what achievement tests measured. in educational leadership. She is now the director of the Center for Educational Leadership at Baruch College, part of City University of New York (CUNY).