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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? She co-founded edtech company LangInnov to address what she saw as a gap in the market for assessing Latino children’s reading abilities.

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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

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EdSurge connected with Caulfield to talk about his strategies for managing today’s flood of information — and how new AI tools will impact efforts by educators to teach information literacy. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. What is critical ignoring and why is that something you're highlighting?

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The 7 Habits of Successful Academic-Innovation Leaders

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We practice mental models grounded in a pragmatic view of change. To do this, we read constantly and digest everything in order to practice sensemaking—helping to identity the signals in the noise. In everything we do, we take time to consider needs and requirements. We identify dependencies and assumptions.

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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. See the resource list below for more suggested readings and teaching tools.) Credit: EdSurge.

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Book review – Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

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Disclaimer: both are friends of mine so keep that in mind as you read below. There are numerous ways to give students access to deeper learning, greater student agency, and more authentic work opportunities that don’t involve learning technologies. Questions I have after reading this book. My short recommendation?