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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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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. Getting Started.

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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. Having said that, Integrated Learning by itself has its own pitfalls.

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

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Instead, the district opted to facilitate the collaboration with a far more cost-effective solution: flat-panel TVs and screen mirroring software. “By The technology was supposed to let teachers share their screens without being tethered to a desk. Vivi’s hybrid hardware/software model is another big plus for Rugg.

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

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So can technology support higher order thinking? I would say YES it can SUPPORT and even ENCOURAGE higher order thinking. Ask them to work on Google Docs so that you can guide them through comments and feedback and encourage application of knowledge. A good tech tool to support this would be graphing software.

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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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