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Novel Ideas for Writing Instruction

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“All of our teachers have had ample professional development in writing process and pedagogy, which helps to provide a strong knowledge base around the most effective practices,” says Gale. The district is seeing great results from its investment in technology-based tools and in training teachers to use them.

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Beyond the Genius Bar: Cultivating Leadership With a Student-Led Tech Team

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What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? Busch's student tech teams have four sub-committees: the “Newcast Directors," the “iPad Consultants," the “Makerspace Mentors," and the “Cyber Squad." I couldn’t agree more. Our school here in Wisconsin did just that, and the results have been astounding.

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

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And we've seen test scores go from 29 percent to 68 percent in one semester when you can deliver the student the exact learning environment that they need to overcome the gap in their knowledge base. We saw a big push by schools back in 2010 and 2011 to adopt iPads on a large scale. They had no idea what to do with them.

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Why schools need a knowledge base

eSchool News

When I have a problem with my iPad, I look to Google. Google is my worldwide knowledge base for fixing my toilet, unsticking my iPad, and figuring out the origin of that clunk sound my car started making. Next page: The importance of a knowledge base).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel and his team used the 40,000 some odd questions that students had asked in previous versions of the course to build out Jill’s knowledge-base. The iPad would solve that,” he said. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones.

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