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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Antonio Vigil is director of innovative classroom technology at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade. Here’s What’s Next.

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But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. But in practice, they “used technology to reduce their student-to-teacher ratios during teacher-led instruction” to help lighten the load, according to the report.

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

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It’s hard to measure, but leaders at the forefront of the 21st century learning movement tell me they still see too many students sitting passively while teachers deliver instruction; too much technology is still used to replace routine tasks rather than turbo-charge the experience of learning. The more concrete, the better.

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