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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. You’re expected to cultivate skills that prepare students for real-world challenges. Cost-effectiveness is another critical advantage.

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Closing the digital use divide with active and engaging learning

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Active learning with technology involves the use of edtech tools and digital resources to discover, analyze, and apply learning. Passive learning doesn’t help students develop future-ready skills, like critical thinking or creativity, in the same way active learning does.

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How Leveraging Curiosity May Keep Students Engaged From Afar

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NASA STEM @ Home For Students Grades K-4. STEM Activities for Kids. 18 Stay at Home STEM Activity Sites for Learning and Fun. I’m also seeing students start to build their own little pods. FIRST @ Home Activities & Resources. Research proves FIRST drives STEM engagement and outcomes.

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Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind

Catlin Tucker

Blended learning is “active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to give students more control over time, place, pace, and/or path of their learning.” They are not passive consumers but rather active participants.

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A Teacher’s Insight and a Suite of Apps Revitalized Geography—Boosting Student Engagement and Collaboration

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The Board wanted to help teachers better engage students; to do this effectively, it needed clearer insight into teacher needs. Leveraging its technology investments, OCSB got that insight—as well as a brand new geography curriculum that increased student engagement and collaboration. .

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Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning

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Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. One of IU’s early redesign efforts saw it transform an old indoor swimming pool.

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Digital Experiential Learning: 7 Steps to Transform Ordinary Classroom Activities

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7 Steps to a Genially Transformation In a rapidly changing educational landscape with a focus on developing and nurturing future-ready learners, it is vital for educators to inject experiential learning into our classrooms whenever possible. To learn how to use the new add-on, take a look at the quick and free Genially Academy course.