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From curiosity to clarity: Showcasing career paths to young learners

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Not just general practitioners–these middle schoolers aimed high and discussed specialties like cardiology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, plastic surgery, and anesthesiology. The range of careers students presented was impressive and included jobs like animators, hospice nurses, and lawyers.

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Why Stubborn Myths Like ‘Learning Styles’ Persist

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For years, a stream of articles have tried to dispel pervasive but wrong ideas about how people learn, but those ideas still linger. For example, there is no evidence that matching instructional materials to a student’s preferred “learning style” helps learning, nor that there are “right-brain” and “left-brain” learners.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Platforms like Zoom or Google Classroom enable real-time discussions, while forums foster ongoing dialogue beyond scheduled sessions. Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning.

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Unmute the Classroom: Unleashing the Power of Student Participation

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How do we break this silence and boost student participation in our classroom? Here we’ll dive into strategies to encourage more active participation and examine why participation matters to students and educators. The most widely used strategies use the active learning approach.

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Why are technology tools important in teaching and learning?

eSchool News

Key points: Technology tools help students develop critical workforce know-how Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News Discover Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning Technology tools have become indispensable in K-12 teaching and learning, revolutionizing educational landscapes.

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5 FETC 2024 sessions that grabbed our attention

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Attendees will learn directly from top ed tech experts and successful real-world practitioners in hundreds of in-depth workshops and hands-on sessions. Sessions, keynotes, discussions, and the expo hall will connect attendees with need-to-know details on the latest edtech innovations shaping the education landscape.

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Schools and districts that ignore TikTok’s lessons are bound to fail

eSchool News

Phenomena-based learning involves leveraging real-world scenarios and observations in learning to help students better understand their environment and uncover the steps necessary to solve problems and answer complex questions. Try, fail, learn, repeat. Or, if you’re Maynard Kereke (Hip Hop M.D.),