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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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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

It means that when you have questions, you trust them to inform your thinking, guide your research, and provide answers and directions scaffolded from their personal experience. How to build a PLN. Now that you’re convinced you need a PLN, how do you build one? It doesn’t mean they have all the answers. Participate.

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

Edsurge

The state education agency also established a committee to advise the state on how to bring the TEAACH Act to life in schools and produced a webinar series to support the mandate’s implementation. As a PD facilitator, Hurh says she prioritizes modeling how to incorporate Asian American history in a way that treats the community with dignity.

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Preparing for Growing Pains

Reading By Example

Mineral Point Elementary is my third school as an administrator and second as the head principal. It’s hard to provide advice on how to deal with specific situations that arise when the status quo is being challenged. I also taught for seven years. What can we do to prepare for the different obstacles that will come our way?

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How Culturally Responsive Education Affects Student Engagement and Learning

MindSpark

“I’ve found it helpful to think of culture as a tool that doesn't so much anticipate how people will act. rather, it's more about what themes, references, and experiences - individual and shared - inform peoples' perceptions. How does this blog inform our MSL values? Why should you read this book?

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

Edsurge

For example, imagine that you are an elementary school principal who is looking for opportunities to strengthen specific third grade math skills in the new school year. Let technology inform your approach to professional development. Build a PD playbook.

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10 tips for teaching critical thinking + information literacy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Back in episode 216, I spoke with Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project about how educators can be informed media consumers and advocates for truth. Now we’re ready to do a deeper exploration into how we can support students in information literacy. It should urge them to think, “Wait, what I am seeing?