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Building a Culture of Digital Innovation in Education with Student Devices

EdTech Magazine

I’ve spent the past few years as an instructional coach showing teachers how to integrate technology into the curriculum. During that time, I’ve learned that for teachers to truly embrace digital innovation in the classroom, they will need to be supported by a culture that fully embraces educational technology.

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Assessment Culture: What It Is and Why It Matters

Edsurge

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

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Spaced repetition is the secret to overcoming learning loss

eSchool News

Just as “turnt,” “on fleek,” and “adulting” have become trending words in pop culture, so too has “spaced repetition” become a buzzword in education. Some educators are obsessed with it. And yet it remains the most underrated and underutilized learning principle in the history of education.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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5 ways to teach and assess learning in the age of AI

eSchool News

Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others fret it may weaken the teaching of critical thinking and increase bias by spreading misinformation about different groups and cultures. Encourage students to look beyond the classroom for deeper learning.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

Edsurge

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. This past June, I received an email inviting me to participate in a webinar on Gratitude-Based Learning (GBL). Kimmerer advises readers that “we must learn to practice gratitude, not just as a fleeting emotion, but as a way of life.”

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Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?

Edsurge

Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education at the University of Michigan, is an enrolled member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. He lives a two-and-a-half hour drive from the tribe’s reservation, which makes it hard for him to help his two young kids learn about their Native heritage. he wondered.

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