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The importance of agency in successful edtech adoptions

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Access to agency How should educators approach adopting a technology like AI where there is no past experience to serve as precedence? This is called access to agency. The sense of agency plays a pivotal role in cognitive development and includes recognizing oneself as the agent of behavior and an empowered independent.

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How school leaders can foster a culturally responsive framework

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Providing professional development on cultural competence Effective professional development on cultural competence is essential for equipping educators with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to engage effectively with diverse learners.

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The Case for Expanding the Definition of 'Personalization' to Meet the Needs of the Whole Child

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Technology plays a critical role in this process; not just in how students experience learning, but also in how educators access and use tools and information to leverage and enrich the time they have with their students. Cognitive development includes skills like those involved in memory and processing information.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. However, it usually doesn’t.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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In particular, the age and cognitive development of your students has a profound impact on their ability to succeed in different online learning environments. To increase equity, you should set up your asynchronous learning environments to maximize accessibility. Each approach is best suited to different contexts.

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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

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In addition, DevTech recruited facilitators, such as educators and museum coordinators, from all over the country to host these events in their respective communities and created Family Coding Day protocols that are freely accessible and can be adapted for other coding technologies. Shift the focus to exposure, rather than knowledge.

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Big Tech Needs to Treat Our Children Better

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I’m a believer in the merits of technology and have written about how technology can be used to broaden access to knowledge , connect people and even improve empathy. But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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