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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this post, we will delve into the intricacies of prior knowledge, guided by significant research findings, discuss some of its types and examples, and explore how this understanding can transform educational practices. IJ STEM Ed , 6 (33). Is prior knowledge essential? link] Cordi, M. Schreiner, T., & Rasch, B.

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4 Tips for Facilitating Powerful Student Collaboration

Digital Promise

Building their skillset and their knowledge base makes them eager to solve authentic problems. Students must show how they used feedback to improve their design in the final presentation. Make space for students to truly work as a team. Students need the space to truly own their work. Interested in learning more?

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

The state education agency also established a committee to advise the state on how to bring the TEAACH Act to life in schools and produced a webinar series to support the mandate’s implementation. As a PD facilitator, Hurh says she prioritizes modeling how to incorporate Asian American history in a way that treats the community with dignity.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. We need to teach people how to think. What use is an Internet full of knowledge if no one can pick it up and harness it for good? But it shouldn’t be.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

Now, after two years of cobbled-together pandemic learning, many college students not only are less prepared than they should be, they’ve forgotten how to be students. Even in a normal year, Treisman said, students don’t all show up with the same level of preparedness or knowledge base. I don’t lower the standard,” he said. “I

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Aliteracy: 3 Signs Boys Have It (and what you can do about it!)

Fractus Learning

An aliterate person will have the foundational reading in place to survive, but they won’t have the advanced literacy levels necessary to thrive in a global, knowledge-based and information-driven world. How do I know? By talking to my boys, I was finally able to figure out how to do just that.

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Is it time to redesign your curriculum for the 21st century learner?

eSchool News

It’s not a stretch to say that today’s educational paradigm is preoccupied with the “how” of learning. Educators are grappling — either by choice or decree — with how to incorporate digital devices, new learning standards, and more collaboration and critical thinking into the already-packed school day.