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How K–12 Classrooms Can Benefit from Robotics

EdTech Magazine

Here are a few emerging approaches: Project-Based Learning: PBL focuses on giving students real-world challenges that help them develop problem-solving skills. Tech integration — from laptops and mobile apps to robots — aligns with students’ everyday experience and helps them connect with critical concepts. by Doug Bonderud.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Students can access the tests on laptops, desktops, and tablets. The best part of Socrative is that you can use it on almost all digital devices, including smartphones, laptops, computers, and tablets. The platform facilitates instant assessments and feedback so teachers can stay connected to their pupils in real-time.

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Pre-K Learning: Enhancing Education with Digital Technology

Kitaboo on EdTech

Children who received high-quality, practical knowledge-based learning in their formative years are less likely to fail in high-school. For a generation that started using tablets, smartphones, and laptops before joining the school, the digital method is the best pre-k learning technique. WANT TO KNOW HOW KITABOO WORKS?

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SMART, Samsung offer a boost for collaboration

eSchool News

SMART amp is a cloud-based solution, available on virtually any browser-enabled device. All too often, schools teach knowledge-based skills like the “3 Rs” (writing, reading and arithmetic), but fail to adequately focus on the “4 Cs” (communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity).

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Learning to learn: A skill set for the 21st century student

Neo LMS

In today’s knowledge-based economy, employees are challenged by new situations at work every day, so they need to constantly learn and improve their skills in order to be successful. Learning doesn’t stop when we finish school. At the end of the month, they all get a paycheck. Digital literacy skills.

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10 tips for teaching critical thinking + information literacy

The Cornerstone for Teachers

” Use mobile devices — not just computers — when having kids analyze information. This is important because when looking for credibility markers, sources, or publishing dates, different steps are required on a mobile device than it does on a laptop or a desktop. ” Or, “Why are they showing me this?”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. One Laptop Per Child. WTF is Unizin ?!

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