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8 Non-Digital Remote Learning Ideas

A Principal's Reflections

In this case, he/or she would just do it on a piece of paper that the student could refer to before moving on. Scaffolded questions and tasks : Piling on low-level questions that are recall and knowledge-based don’t constitute learning. With a playlist students choose the order they want to complete all the activities.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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How Culturally Responsive Education Affects Student Engagement and Learning

MindSpark

rather, it's more about what themes, references, and experiences - individual and shared - inform peoples' perceptions. In addition, picking a song that fits Hamlet’s character is a trans-disciplinary application of characterization AND is high engagement because the student’s knowledge base of music (their culture) is valued.

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Students who are not performing at grade level in the core subject matters (Dove & Honigsfeld, 2013, pp. Planning leads to the development of explicit strategy instruction that includes guided practice and collaborative student work—which ultimately fosters high levels of student engagement. References Dove, M.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur. It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

We hear a lot of talk now in Ed Tech circles about how we can get these students engaged and speak a language that they’re speaking. We bring these students into a virtual world. So when you asks questions about what do the students get out of it? Sometimes it’s a hard concept to describe. It’s a virtual environment.

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Beyond the Genius Bar: Cultivating Leadership With a Student-Led Tech Team

Edsurge

After all, many of us would agree that the students are the ones who are usually the most knowledgeable, up-to-date resources for what is the latest and greatest with technology, so why not tap into their large knowledge base and cultivate their leadership potential? The Various Student Tech Team Sub-Committees.

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