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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

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Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. These practical techniques will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities by creating intentional opportunities to enhance social and communication skills.

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The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work

Faculty Focus

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. These practical techniques will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities by creating intentional opportunities to enhance social and communication skills.

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Photoshop Basics

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Encourage them to explore, engage their critical thinking and active learning skills. Then have them select the ‘Help’ files. This takes them to the Adobe CS website and exposes a vast database of questions and answers. Remind them this is where they can find answers independent of teacher assistance. Open a picture.

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Language Arts teacher: These are “My Tech Essentials” for high schoolers

eSchool News

These app essentials will help keep high school students engaged while learning language arts, and teach them how to form the arguments and enhance learning comprehension. The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions.

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Achieve3000 Acquires Literacy Startup Actively Learn

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Achieve3000 , a provider of online reading and literacy tools, announced it has acquired Seattle-based Actively Learn , which also provides a suite of online reading materials and instructional supports aimed at helping students build literacy and critical-thinking skills. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

eSchool News

Makerspaces are a great example of STEAM learning, letting students combine creativity and art elements into more traditional STEM topics. As STEM has risen in prominence over the past decade, arts education has yet to achieve the same recognition and integration. You can’t have one without the other.

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Building Student Ownership through Active Learning Strategies

Faculty Focus

As students complete their undergraduate programs and prepare for the professional world, they are expected to bring critical thinking and problem-solving skills with them to the workplace and their communities. This exercise can be repeated for several rounds to allow students to discuss the same topic with multiple other students.