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How Technology Can Help Deepen Students’ Learning

EdNews Daily

In order to do that, we need to ensure that students regularly operate at the deepest levels of learning: analyzing, breaking things down, making connections, evaluating different situations, etc. Deep learning constitutes the three top levels of Bloom’s taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. So have students learned more? But is asking how much students have learned the right question? Google Classroom-2014.

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Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching

EdNews Daily

Fortunately, there are two models that can help teachers effectively transition into sophisticated, student-centered technology use that transforms learning in their classrooms: the SAMR model and the TPACK model. For augmentation, teachers use technology to make a functional improvement in an existing task. Augmentation.

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Classroom Tech Can Drive Student Engagement—But Schools Need to Choose Wisely

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When Logan City School District knocked down most of their aging red brick high school, they remodeled and rebuilt their way to a two-story, technology-infused learning center. Wait, TVs to Support Collaboration? The technology was supposed to let teachers share their screens without being tethered to a desk.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy and the implications it has for a digital classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a teaching framework that classifies learning from lower order to higher order thinking. So to put it simply, remembering is the most basic part of the learning process and creating something entirely new from what has been learnt, is the most complex. Technology or pedagogy? Evaluating.

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

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From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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