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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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After you’ve completed the assessments, discuss your strengths and challenges, prioritize key areas and determine goals. Districts must get buy-in from a multidisciplinary team, including a family representative, on a shared, inclusive technology vision, and develop a strategic implementation plan before selecting tools.”

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Many of my students who are already successfully applying their extensive knowledge and skills on class assignments and extracurricular activities are told that because they cannot demonstrate mastery of academic content through a specific set of conditions, they have failed. If we want a different world, we must educate differently.

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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

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So earlier this summer, researchers at Stanford and Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit education consulting firm, brought together 70 representatives—mostly from academia, but also from government, leading nonprofits and the commercial education technology industry—to discuss some of the hot-button issues surrounding big data in higher education.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

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The collected data from students can be used to start a discussion. In addition to clarifying what skills and knowledge students need to do well in the course, the conversation can revisit the reasons why it’s a required course. Sources of students’ anxiety in a multidisciplinary social statistics course. Becker, J. Bailey, M.

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How One Professor Uses Podcasts to Teach Empathy and Social Justice

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Since then, Calarco has shared an episode of This American Life to inspire discussion on the sociological imagination and ”how thinking like a sociologist means stepping outside our own bubbles.” She also relied heavily on YouTube videos to bring her podcasting knowledge up to date. “Each week, we will use episodes of popular podcasts.

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Teaching Courses that Provoke Student Anxiety

Faculty Focus

The collected data from students can be used to start a discussion. In addition to clarifying what skills and knowledge students need to do well in the course, the conversation can revisit the reasons why it’s a required course. Sources of students’ anxiety in a multidisciplinary social statistics course. Becker, J. Bailey, M.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. Harrison Parker, Executive Vice President, Linewize In 2024, the role of generative AI in education will be at the forefront of many academic discussions.