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STEM programs can’t keep up with AI–let’s focus on Power Skills

eSchool News

Teaching what’s timeless: Power skills and mental models The solution lies in embracing the timeless. This “meta-knowledge” is encapsulated by the set of understandings called Mental Models. Mental Models provide students with tools to understand the world around them. Take, for example, leadership.

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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

Edsurge

Most recently at our Austin Summit, we facilitated a workshop where over 60 school and district leaders indicated their level of comfort with the assumptions baked into different categories of edtech tools: Assessment, Collaboration and Communication, Curriculum, Data Management and Professional Growth.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

There is a wealth of research on the TPACK and SAMR frameworks, Bloom’s taxonomy, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, the Authentic Intellectual Work framework, the Instructional Practices Inventory, the Florida/Arizona Technology Integration Matrices, and other mental models of technology integration and/or higher-order thinking work.