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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. The social and intellectual development that both students and instructors undergo when we discuss and debate ideas is at the center of why we educate. Leverage partners.

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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

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Over at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, a New York public school named after the African-American civil rights leader that stresses intellectual development and social involvement, Jeff Palladino sits in his principal’s office for the last time in what promises to be a long while.

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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That student’s intellectual development will be stunted, and her ability to make sense of new information will be compromised. Consider two paths: the first taken by a student for whom facts exist independently of reality, and for whom all facts (as long as they fit into an existing world view) have equal merit.

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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

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We would not be in this room, I would not be able to speak with you today, if there wasn’t perseverance, courage, creativity, intellectual development—all of these things that people of African descent have been and continue to be in this country, and the power of the spirit of African Americans is being celebrated today.

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Beyond Digital Literacy: How EdTech Fosters Children’s Social-Emotional Development

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Technology also helps to prepare students for the future and improves the retention rate of information. A child’s emotional well-being and self-confidence is essential to social and intellectual development. The meta-analysis found that SEL promotes a variety of academic, emotional and social benefits for learners.

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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

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Those human needs include pastoral needs, intellectual development, socialization, those sorts of things. I think you gotta separate those things. I mean, our intention is to meet the deepest human needs that our students have. So I think mental health falls under something that's sort of essential.

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