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The importance of agency in successful edtech adoptions

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Advancements in education technology History has taught us that innovation is inevitable. The sense of agency plays a pivotal role in cognitive development and includes recognizing oneself as the agent of behavior and an empowered independent. This is called access to agency. Agency is stick-to-it-tive-ness in action.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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Everest Knowledge Through Experience The influence of constructivist theories has been instrumental in shaping PBL, from Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which argues that knowledge is constructed through experiences and interactions , to Leslie P. And that's how people learn math.

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

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Another student expressed that interdisciplinary work “changed my thinking pattern … to a multi-field view” that helped them synthesize between bodies of knowledge and see other facets of the problems they worked on. We do not know what future challenges face us, but we do know that one day they will arrive.

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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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