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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? It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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

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PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) now compares the global competence and collaborative problem-solving skills of students from different countries along with more traditional scores for reading, math, and science.

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What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms?

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The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It I was working in a rural school, and I was trying to teach math to kids—radius and pi—and I decided we were going to learn this by going to buy pizza at the grocery store,” she said.

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