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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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When a student is a contributor,” he adds, “it turbo-charges their ability to employ the other competencies and their content knowledge.” Book group discussions can jumpstart conversations among colleagues. The Human Factor The unifying theme of these various frameworks seems to be the human factor.

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Book review – Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

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My favorite is probably the quote from Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis: ‘In the absence of knowledge, people make up their own.’ Tom and Eric discuss the concept of return on instruction but the chapter is framed dominantly within a lens of technology infusion. ’ Some minor quibbles. Chapter 3 is similar.

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

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and quickly discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each. | . | 10 minutes – We will start the workshop by looking at some different technology integration and/or deeper thinking frameworks (TPACK, SAMR, RAT, Bloom’s, Webb’s, IPI, AIW, etc.)

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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not. The researchers suggested that the analysis of diagrams and other visualizations should be considered as a useful teaching approach.

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