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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

For example, at many post-secondary institutions, a teaching space is considered to be a Smart Classroom if it merely comes equipped with nothing more than a microphone, computer, video projector. One drawback to LMS platforms is that they are not uniform in the level of technological support that they provide to users.

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Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?

Ask a Tech Teacher

When learning piano for example (apt for typing), you learn where to place your fingers, to keep your wrists raised to ensure easier movement rather than resting them on the desk, how to interpret what you read or hear and translate that into music. This isn’t equitable teaching; it is convenient teaching.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

Ask a Tech Teacher

For example, you could just look at a map and do some measurements, or you can get out there with a trusty surveyor’s wheel and chart a space and learn real applications. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discusses this: Explicit typing, simulated application and practical application – Why is this not a thing?

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SCALE-UP Classroom Technology: Supporting The Learning Environment

ViewSonic Education

The SCALE-UP classroom is one example of these dramatic shifts. SCALE-UP is turning many aspects of the traditional classroom upside-down, including how technology is used. For example, students can use projection and screen-sharing technology to share ideas or solutions with their teams or with the whole class.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Vrain , we’ve implemented artificial intelligence to provide teachers with extra support and to deliver high-quality, meaningful, and relevant professional learning opportunities. In this evolving educational landscape, technology plays a pivotal role. AI’s contributions to edtech don’t stop there.

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How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed

MindShift

Technology Support —It can’t be assumed that students have experience using technology tools in presentations. Concept Attainment involves the teacher identifying both “good” and “bad” examples of the intended learning objective. However, we don’t explain why it is a “yes.”

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Vrain , we’ve implemented artificial intelligence to provide teachers with extra support and to deliver high-quality, meaningful, and relevant professional learning opportunities. In this evolving educational landscape, technology plays a pivotal role. AI’s contributions to edtech don’t stop there.

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