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How Technology Can Help Deepen Students’ Learning

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Fortunately, technology tools can provide support for each stage. Technology-Supported Surface-Level Learning. Technology for whole group settings, e.g., interactive flat panel displays and presentation software, can engage students by using videos and vivid images to get them curious and excited about a subject.

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

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Take a class of thirty students, tell them they are going to learn how to type only by using it in searches on google and creating reports in Microsoft Office. Anyone who has been instructed in learning a musical instrument knows that before you can start performing songs you have to learn how to play the instrument.

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Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching

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Once the school started getting classroom computers, tablets, and Chromebooks, Paul began placing notes, resources and worksheets on his website and having students download the documents and complete notes and summary activities in a Word document or Google Docs. Augmentation.

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Here’s Why Teachers Adopt New Tech — and Why They Don’t

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I can’t count the number of technological tools that were marketed directly to me during my 14-year teaching career. And the number of education-specific apps, services, and software I actually used consistently? If the technology supports this, it meets the primary requirement. Those I could easily count on one hand.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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Feedback: One teacher in Northern California told my team that when her class started using personalized learning software, her students were “just click, click, clicking away.” So much of today’s educational technology supports students in mastering new skills and standards, but few tools facilitate inquiry- or project-based learning.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

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Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. So, Leah, what’s your first idea for using technology to engage kids in science? I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. Date: March 13, 2018.

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