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STEM programs can’t keep up with AI–let’s focus on Power Skills

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Key points: Schools should focus on teaching skills that have enduring value See also: Here’s why STEM Career Days are a great idea See also: Building a STEM pipeline needs to start in kindergarten For more news on STEM learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM page First came headlines about AI-driven cheating.

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

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It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. In Gonzalez’s view, just getting a piece of technology into a child’s hand won’t help them improve where they’re lagging academically or even be effective at teaching them anything.

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

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Each has its own champions, teaching practices, and even hashtags; all have the potential to disrupt what we think of as traditional, teacher-centered education by giving students more voice in how they learn. See the resource list below for more suggested readings and teaching tools.) Heather Wolpert-Gawron offers a good role-model.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

There is a wealth of research on the TPACK and SAMR frameworks, Bloom’s taxonomy, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, the Authentic Intellectual Work framework, the Instructional Practices Inventory, the Florida/Arizona Technology Integration Matrices, and other mental models of technology integration and/or higher-order thinking work.

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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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However, new research suggests that math manipulatives are vital for efficient math teaching at any age or ability level. The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not.

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