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How Building Bonds in the Classroom Can Motivate Better Teaching

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Researchers believe it may be in part due to their age and development, and partly because secondary school teachers are content specialists who can dive more deeply into their subjects. In addition, as course content becomes more challenging in higher grades, teachers may tend to use these complex strategies more often.”

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The importance of agency in successful edtech adoptions

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As educators introduce new technologies in their classrooms, successful adoption and improvements to student outcomes will hinge on thoughtful strategies and intent to embrace change. Advancements in education technology History has taught us that innovation is inevitable. This is called access to agency.

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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. Fully asynchronous online learning is probably best suited to adult learners who are motivated to apply what they learn to their work.

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To Be Ready for Kindergarten, Teachers and Researchers Say Social-Emotional Skills Are Key

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One is physical development, including gross motor skills, which allow kids to run, hop and skip, as well as fine motor skills, which help children hold a pencil or use scissors. Another is cognitive development, such as reasoning and problem-solving.

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What to Know About the Rise of Smartwatches Among Kids

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Many people said in interviews that it is natural for children to want to have access to the same technology their older siblings, parents and peers have. But that doesn’t seem to be the key motivator behind parents’ purchasing decisions. And watches, like most other devices, are built with persuasive design.

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

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Just like math or literacy, social emotional skills and mindsets build toward more complex skills - like self-direction, curiosity and purpose - as students develop. Such a developmental trajectory is proposed in the Building Blocks for Learning , which I developed for Turnaround for Children.

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Big Tech Needs to Treat Our Children Better

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I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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