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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

Ask a Tech Teacher

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. sharing digitally to build knowledge.

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Relevant Thinking and Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

It also ensures that education remains dynamic and meaningful, preparing students to make informed decisions and contribute positively to society. Hence, nurturing relevant thinking is essential for equipping young minds with the competence to transform knowledge into action and meet the demands of the future head-on.

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The Siri and Alexa Test

A Principal's Reflections

I share the personal story above as access to artificial intelligence in the form of Siri and Alexa has impacts on the education space. Whereas in the past, knowledge could be readily accessed from encyclopedias and books, this took time. The Internet drastically changed this process by ushering us all into the Information Age.

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First AI-powered School Year Begins, Ushering in a New Era in Education

eSchool News

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.

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For Educators Who Get In Trouble But Want To Stay In Their Professions

The Jose Vilson

The burgeoning educators had great questions, but the one that feels most germane to the moment was about getting into trouble. I simultaneously had the dubious distinction of being the first of the NYC education bloggers at the time to have their blog blocked by the whole NYC Department of Education. So activate on.

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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

As the teacher leading my SXSWedu classroom, I made a wrongful assumption my entire class entered the room with the same knowledge base. So I explained to my class that Open Educational Resources (OER) could be most easily defined as “free stuff on the Web.” Define OERs. Talk to my librarian.

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What is Constructivism and How Does it Fit Your Class?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Constructivism 1) encourages students to use active techniques (such as experimentation and problem solving) to build their knowledge base and then reflect on and/or talk about how that is changing; and 2) encourages teachers to guide activities that address and/or build on student conceptions. Education applications.