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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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Scaffolding Questions to Develop Deeper Understanding

A Principal's Reflections

While conducting some coaching visits at Wells Elementary School recently, I saw Ms. At first glance, all I saw were student responses to knowledge-based questions on the interactive whiteboard to check for understanding. Mican using Quizizz. What I saw next really made me smile.

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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

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

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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. This gives teachers options—a collection of proven strategies and approaches that they can try in their classrooms. Hold PD discussions at sites across a district.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

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People love to try guess what Apple is up to—that’s true for the company’s education strategy as well. But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. When you first took on that role leading education strategy at Apple, what was your vision, and how did you see education then? What's our vision?

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

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Eben Dowell, Senior Research Analyst in the Office of Research, Evaluation and Advanced Analytics at the Ohio Department of Education, explained the department’s five-step approach to getting their educators to embrace the evidence-based mindset. Step 1 – Understand the value of evidence-based strategies for students and schools.