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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This knowledge base, formed through previous educational encounters, personal experiences, and cultural background, significantly influences how learners perceive, process, and integrate new information. Moreover, the research highlights the importance of differentiating between declarative and procedural knowledge.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Throughout the school year, students work on design thinking strategies and building a skillset so they can develop their own prototypes. Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. Although this unit occurs at the end of the school year, my teammate, Karen Schaeffer.

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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.

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

MindShift

While these strategies are important parts of making learning relevant to students, they may not be enough on their own to improve the quality of writing. The strategies New Dorp teachers used to fill gaps in students’ understanding came from Judith Hochman’s book Teaching Basic Writing Skills , and they seem simplistic.