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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. But there has been progress, both with the tools themselves and the teaching practices we employ to incorporate technology into the classroom. How do we do that?

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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

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Culture, structure, time and technology. We now need to leverage technology and use time in a different way.” But his focus these days is on keeping daily rhythm and rituals that allow for students to be in discussion and collaboration with each other, including regular communication protocols. We have culture and structure in place.

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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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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

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2021), emphasizing the establishment of environments conducive to students’ intellectual development. Assistive Technologies: Integrating assistive technologies, such as screen readers and speech-to-text tools, can enhance accessibility for students with disabilities. Dyer, Rebekah. 1 (June 30, 2022): 171216.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

2021), emphasizing the establishment of environments conducive to students’ intellectual development. Assistive Technologies: Integrating assistive technologies, such as screen readers and speech-to-text tools, can enhance accessibility for students with disabilities. Dyer, Rebekah. 1 (June 30, 2022): 171216.

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

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Most educators–and parents–focus technology benefits on how it helps academically, but efriend Joe Peters reminded me the other day that there’s more to it than that. Technology also helps to prepare students for the future and improves the retention rate of information. Taking Advantage of Technological Innovations.