Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Constructivism is a student-centered philosophy that emphasizes hands-on learning and active participation in lessons. Constructivists believe that learning is an active process so the most effective way to learn is through discovery. Learning is incremental. Learning is iterative.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

.’ You might even understand the purpose of a PLN–to provide educators with a collaborative learning environment–but think you don’t need one, or staff development provided by your school is all you can handle. How to build a PLN. Now that you’re convinced you need a PLN, how do you build one?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

It got me thinking about lesson plans in general — how far we’ve come from lecture-test-move on. Now, exemplary teachers focus on blending learning into the student’s life knowledge base with the goal of building happy, productive adults. Rather, it itemizes ways students interact with knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In education, case studies are widely used as a pedagogical tool to encourage critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the application of theoretical knowledge. They serve as a bridge between theory and practice, promote active learning and the development of practical skills that improve their teaching methods.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Today is Digital Learning Day. This is a day for leaders and learners to level up digital learning. Best practices for hashtag maintenance and open learning. The lessons learned from effective social media PD. ” Want to hear more about digital learning? The lessons learned from effective social media PD.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Facilitator- Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students. Educators: Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings. Mindsets can be changed.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. discuss two main types of prior knowledge which I want to draw your attention to: declarative prior knowledge and procedural prior knowledge. What is Prior Knowledge?

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 6, 2023

In today’s age, however, young students are becoming more engrossed with technology — toeing the line between obsession and general interest in technology. Through education technology, we can lead our young student generations to learn more in a faster, more cohesive method that promotes healthy living. Online Learning.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Last time we talked about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education , we’ve seen how smart speakers can help university students navigate campus life. However, voice-assisted technology isn’t the only one making a splash in universities; text-based communication is also a big hit. That was back in 2016 when professor Ashok K.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In the early 80s there was much hand-wringing among teachers and education policy-makers regarding how to teach computer literacy given that many teachers did not having sufficient training, and “micro-computers” were prohibitively expensive. Can use online resources for basic device troubleshooting.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But it also threatens the psychosocial learning students do in college, as well as the opportunities for personal development that so many of them seek. Given the importance of college for worldview development and cross-cultural exchanges, can interfaith learning continue in a virtual setting? We believe it can. But will it?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Students model how professional product teams work together to create prototypes for authentic users. Below, Melissa shares advice for how teachers can facilitate these kinds of powerful collaborative learning experiences with their students. Interested in learning more? Preparation sets up students for success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to so many daily tech-infused education. Category: ASSESSMENTS.

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Benchmark Education

MAY 4, 2016

A New World of Technology—in Classrooms, Around the Globe. So, how do we best prepare our students for college? Our students have grown up in a brave, new, digital world—so we look first to technology as a key part of the answer. Why Use Technology in the Classroom? Technology holds huge promise, but has it delivered?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Personalized learning has been an education buzzword for several years. A recent survey of by the state education technology directors association, or SETDA, put personalized learning at the top of the list of state priorities. But what does personalized learning actually mean, and how can school leaders do it?

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Passing Legislation Is One Thing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

It doesn’t have to work , mind you, but it does have to include plausible technology. One requirement is that if students have seen the technology in action, it’s disqualified from being the topic of their video — a commercial pretending that their invented technology actually exists. The focus was on learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

How to search. It includes certificates of achievement, badges at the completion of units, and a classroom tracking poster to show how students are progressing. Here’s how to use it in your classroom: Cover one unit per week as a class, which will take about forty-five minutes. Cyber-bullying. Plagiarism.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Even in the tech lab, which is my purview, I provide mini-how-to-write lessons before tech projects that include writing. Use technology to produce and publish writing. Conduct research based on focused questions that demonstrate understanding of the subject. These skills are part of their knowledge base for word processing.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened to the chapter being reviewed, homework as worksheets based on the text, tests regurgitating important facts. Transfer of knowledge is critical.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 14, 2018

There are some major shifts happening in the way perceive education and the mechanisms we use for teaching and learning. We have written about some of these changes in our previous blog: “ 7 powerful shifts towards the future of learning that is changing education ”. Education will also be technology assisted by the coming years.

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There is no box

JUNE 30, 2015

The Missing Literacies – Networking to Learn. This is not how we learn in the real world. The extent of networking to learn, if we were lucky, was putting four desks together and working in groups. In college, some of my best learning experiences were working on group projects. Kids sitting in rows of desk.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 5, 2023

How can we guide our students towards higher levels of thinking and deep understanding? The way we design learning objectives and activities plays a colossal part in the success of our teaching. For those who have already subscribed to Educators Technology, you will have received a copy in your inbox.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Technology has penetrated every aspect of life, and education is no exception. As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2015

In my experience, I’ve noticed that teachers are more likely to make positive changes when they get to decide when and how to change. I used to make changes in my classroom based on intuition - I just know what my students need - but found that intuition alone wasn’t enough to truly spark student learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

When at all possible, get your teachers out of familiar environments and give them opportunities to watch, engage with, and learn from other experts within their own district in locations like classrooms or schools that are unfamiliar to them. Let technology inform your approach to professional development. Build a PD playbook.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 22, 2022

You also want to ensure that the content is consumed efficiently and adds significant value to the consumer’s knowledge base. SCORM put forward specific ways and methods for creating effective and efficient learning management systems. How to Create an Interactive eBook in 10 Steps. to test the learner’s progress.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

You also want to ensure that the content is consumed efficiently and adds significant value to the consumer’s knowledge base. SCORM put forward specific ways and methods for creating effective and efficient learning management systems. to test the learner’s progress. This is where SCORM comes into play.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Vice President and Managing Director at SIIA, made this statement in a recent edWebinar , with Jeff Mao, CEO, Edmoxie LLC, Bruce Umpstead, Director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Ilya Zeldin, Founder and CEO of 2gnoMe.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The man has no knowledge of how to read the symbols or understand the language. What he does have available are detailed instructions about how to process the symbols and respond with other Chinese symbols. And yet we are still a long way from the point where we can converse with technology as we would another human.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

When Calgary Catholic School District was pushed to close its doors in March due to the novel coronavirus, students, faculty and other school staff had to quickly adjust to the new reality thrust upon them: navigating remote learning. “We They also had to figure out how to distribute nearly 5,000 Chromebooks for students to use at home.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

When Calgary Catholic School District was pushed to close its doors in March due to the novel coronavirus, students, faculty and other school staff had to quickly adjust to the new reality thrust upon them: navigating remote learning. “We They also had to figure out how to distribute nearly 5,000 Chromebooks for students to use at home.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2016

You’ve probably heard of the student-led “Genius Bar”, which is generally a team of student leaders that provide technical support for the technology devices and programs in their schools. What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? Here’s how it happened. Laura Busch) How Students Apply.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2016

Technology plus music is an easy, accessible way to put STEAM in lessons — and students love it. This means not just reaching all students with the content they must learn but making sure this information stays around in their heads to improve their school performance and knowledge base. It’s captivating kids.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 9, 2012

Pearson Promo/Intro to OpenClass Just discovered Pearson''s OpenClass , a learning management system with social and collaboration tools. First full-featured learning environment that''s free, easy to use and scalable." Read about how he Wants to Put Learning-Management Software in the Cloud. Or does it?

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 1, 2020

When Calgary Catholic School District was pushed to close its doors in March due to the novel coronavirus, students, faculty and other school staff had to quickly adjust to the new reality thrust upon them: navigating remote learning. “We They also had to figure out how to distribute nearly 5,000 Chromebooks for students to use at home.

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