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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I We selected Ballard and her peers for our series of focus groups because of their leadership in supporting the effective use of technology in their schools.

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How to Use Oral Presentations to Help English Language Learners Succeed

MindShift

These standards call for students to make effective and well-organized presentations and to use technology to enhance understanding of them. Oral presentations can take many different forms in the ELL classroom—ranging from students briefly presenting their learning in small groups to creating a multi-slide presentation for the whole class.

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Two Models for Leveling Up How You Integrate Technology and Teaching

EdNews Daily

At this level, teachers are redesigning tasks via technology. For example, in a brainstorming activity about westward expansion in American history, Paul puts students in groups of four, gives them a tablet and tells them to type a list of things they already know about the Old West. Modification.

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Can Learning be Equitable if the Student Isn't Able to Access Learning Resources?

Connecting 2 the World

In online education, it may not be obvious for an instructor (unless it is made explicit in the course design) that a student is from a community in which the basis of learning and how to learn, understanding of what "information" or "knowledge" is, and/or the rhetorical style is different from the standards of the educator/educational system.

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This Teacher Started a Hands-On PD Lab That’s Sparking Change Across the District

Edsurge

Along the way, we learned a lot about how to teach coding skills and what types of professional development opportunities effectively supported our efforts. I became increasingly frustrated with the lack of technology support and PD opportunities in our district. I decided I was well-positioned to help make a change.

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Role of Tech in Ed: Consideration #1

The Innovative Educator

Innovative educators know how to move technology from being viewed as a weapon of mass distraction to being used as a tool of engagement, but this isn’t intuitive for everyone. Not sure how to begin? Start with these ideas of ways to use technology to support teaching and learning.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

So I’m trying to figure out… what’s the missing link here? We had a group of these young men here. You have 300+ million people who have 300+ million ideas about how education is. So great classroom teachers understand how to look outside of the box. Many of them have been recognized at the highest level.

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