A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2022

UNESCO provides a relevant description below: Beyond its conventional concept as a set of reading, writing, and counting skills, literacy is now understood as a means of identification, understanding, interpretation, creation, and communication in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich, and fast-changing world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

When I first addressed this issue fifteen years ago, it was all about replacing traditional classroom tools with one on a computer. Look at what you’re doing in your lesson plans and consider what tech tools could replace what you currently use. If you’re practicing math skills, use one of the many online math programs.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Do any of my points need additional evidence or explanation to support my claim?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Once skills are taught, it’s important to use, reinforce, and refine them. Here’s an overview of keyboarding for grades K-8: Kindergarten Kindergarten is about mouse skills, getting hands on the keyboard and learning good posture. Here are quick answers to these common questions: Will keyboarding replace cursive writing?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

From creating realistic images and art to producing music and writing, generative AI's potential to help students learn and demonstrate their creative thinking skills in fundamentally new ways is truly awe-inspiring. Supercharge creative thinking, don’t replace it. Understand the value of creativity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2024

It keeps you connected, helps manage your schedule, and can even be used for quick tasks and research on the go – skills invaluable in school and work environments. These items are often durable and provide better performance, ensuring that you won’t need to replace them frequently.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These are the very skills and activities that separate people from robots, yet instead of developing them, students are told to act like robots and simply spit back information on exams. While project-based learning may help lift standardized test scores, its real power lies in improving problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2022

Keyboarding skills are critical, especially to summative year-end testing. Printing is being replaced with sharing and publishing. Each time I update it, I include a list of what has changed since the last update, something like: Windows updated its platform—twice. Student work is often collaborative and shared.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2024

As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection. By creative thinking, they do not mean they need people who can draw and paint well.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

More than 48 percent of those queried believe that hard skills will become less important and soft skills, such as reasoning and creativity, will increase in demand, according to the survey, conducted in March by Philadelphia-based Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While many people fear that AI systems will replace humans in the workplace, we take a human-centered perspective that sees AI systems working with humans and helping to augment human skills. People should always play a leading role in education, and AI systems should not replace teachers, ever.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

She underscores the potential of AI-generated content to empower students, granting them agency over their learning journey, fostering higher-order thinking skills and introducing innovative educational challenges. Agreeing with Glass, webinar host Hooker suggests, “A teacher won't be replaced by AI.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

An increasing number of K–12 schools are bringing drones into the classroom as new use cases show how useful unmanned vehicles can be to teach science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics skills. . Buy replacement parts: For entry-level drones, replacement motors cost about $10, while gears and propellers cost about $2 each.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Oftentimes, schools mix and match EdTech solutions from different brands , only to discover that compatibility is often tied to a brand’s proprietary products, potentially requiring the complete replacement of existing hardware with new alternatives.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

She also says, “Technology should supplement, not replace, an educator.” Technology should supplement, not replace, an educator.” As a coach or teacher, you can also pair a stronger learner with one who needs more support or put together a group with different skill sets. Learners are able to become the experts in the room.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2022

AI can't replace: 1. Interpersonal Skills (like listening) 7. Some things I'd like to share in my endeavor to learn more about VR, AR, AI, etc. VR can improve Emotional but not Cognitive Empathy. #AI Critical thkg 2. Judgment & complex decisions 3. EQ & Empathy 4. Creativity 5. Collaboration & Teamwork 6.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Chemical engineering offers endless opportunities in industries like mining, energy, production, and pharmaceuticals, especially if you have skills like critical thinking and mathematical and scientific reasoning. Global Versatility The skills and qualifications required for some jobs aren’t internationally recognized.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Immersive learning makes it possible for students to reach learning objectives by activating their curiosity, and engaging with their questioning and experimentation, which ultimately helps in the development of useful problem-solving skills. Thus, recreating relevant features for learning can have a positive impact.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2024

Ed is accessible to students and families in multiple languages, shares information to support learning needs and helps students improve skills and pursue interests.” “Teachers are have been and will always be central to education,” Carvalho said. “Artificial intelligence will never replace the talent of a teacher.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We teach beautifully diverse groups of students with various skill levels, needs, language proficiencies, and learning preferences. I don’t want AI to replace the human element of education; I want it to elevate it. Before AI, designing for learner variability was an arduous process that may have felt unsustainable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

They can also help students develop peer relationships to improve self-esteem and social skills, which contribute to enhancing academic performance. Promotes independence Students with disabilities can acquire skills that empower their independence through assistive technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

There are some students who will greatly benefit from the information that this doesn’t replace all your steps, but it might simplify some things.” It’s not a replacement for skill and coding or the ability to read and understand things,” Ross said. That’s a skill set. It supports the notion that it’s a tool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2016

When I first addressed this issue fifteen years ago, it was all about replacing traditional classroom tools with one on a computer. Look at what you’re doing in your lesson plans and consider what tech tools could replace what you currently use. If you’re practicing math skills, use one of the many online math programs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2023

This means not just providing students with laptops and online resources, but ensuring they have the necessary skills to find, validate, apply, and curate the vast amount of information now available to them. When mechanized technology was introduced, it was primarily used to replace repetitive and rote physical tasks.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2023

The world is changing rapidly, with new technology being developed daily and jobs being replaced by automated machines and artificial intelligence (AI). This means that the future of work will require a different set of skills than needed in the past. The primary focus must be increasing cognitive demand for our students.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This is especially critical in K–12 environments as millennials age out of the school system and are replaced by Generation Z. Here are a few emerging approaches: Project-Based Learning: PBL focuses on giving students real-world challenges that help them develop problem-solving skills.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

That is the work we do that cannot be replaced by technology. If they request a 1:1 coaching session, they should have work they are struggling with or questions about specific content or skills they want to focus on. A teacher’s value lies not in their expertise but in their ability to connect with learners.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In my last post we explored surprising findings that many recent high school graduates (and by definition digital natives) arrive in the workplace or college, without sufficient computer skills. The question research such as ERIAL is asking is: are the tools of that curatorship trustworthy replacements for real-life librarians?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

I want the Mac skill to have a heading and then I want a short 2-4 sentence introduction explaining that topic. Mac Skills Prompt Creation , January 12, 2024, Using Prompt Perfect ‘s Custom GPT I did have to enter and link my account with “prompt perfect.” Research and Explain: Dig deep into your chosen skill.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It won’t be long until operating a drone is considered a good skill to have on your teacher resume. Aside from field trips, which are time consuming, drones can be effective when used to survey an area, capture footage of places that would otherwise be inaccessible for your class, and teach students valuable mapping skills.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

Far from being a barrier to AI adoption, this requirement can actually catalyze the creation of a continuous learning culture among educators, equipping them with future-ready skills. Policymakers agree, and have already introduced legislation highlighting the importance of teaching these skills in classrooms.

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Neo LMS

MAY 5, 2020

As educators, we can help our students to build upon the basic skills and knowledge and then pursue their own curiosity to take it to the next level of exploration. Last year, VentureBeat referred to a shortage in people with the much needed AI tech skills. Read more: Will AI replace teachers? All in all.

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Neo LMS

MAY 14, 2020

Let’s imagine that most lectures or teacher-centered activities are replaced with asynchronous learning. While academic knowledge is important, and should not be dismissed, there’s a need to teach at least some more practical skills as well, at least at the K-12 level. Read more: Teaching students specific technical skills.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 7, 2019

The traditional one-to-many lecture format fails to foster these skills and education is quickly moving to adopt constructivist approaches, with students working together to make connections and develop knowledge. With no projector to maintain, IFPs reduce both costs and staff time related to calibration, replacing bulbs and cleaning filters.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Tablets in classrooms can help students develop digital literacy skills early on. Cost and Durability: While the initial investment in tablets can be high, textbooks, in the long run, can be more economical, especially considering the potential costs of repairs, updates, or replacements for digital devices.

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Edthena

JANUARY 11, 2024

The reflective process allows teachers to identify skill gaps, set goals, and make changes more quickly than otherwise possible. In this way, AI coaching serves to enhance a school’s coaching process rather than replace it. Contact Us to Try AI Coach What is AI Coaching?

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

Finally, teachers who used AI as a substitute teacher implemented an approach resembling what many say they fear when it comes to allowing AI into classrooms: that AI-equipped systems could replace teachers. I would never feel threatened by something like this or like it would replace me.

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