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Turn the Page: Looking Beyond the Textbook for Culturally-Responsive Curriculum

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This responsibility goes far beyond ensuring factual accuracy; it extends to creating culturally-responsive curriculum that not only integrates the experiences of diverse cultures and historically underrepresented groups, but also actively engages cultural learning styles and scaffolds students toward freedom of thought and independence.

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How to help IT teams manage digital transformation

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Whether they’re talking about one-to-one computing initiatives, digital textbooks, using “smart” interactive whiteboards and 3D printers in classrooms, or moving to full-scale “flipped” instructional models, educators are excited about technology’s potential.

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Illinois district launches digital math tools

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Illinois’ Mundelein School District 75 and Discovery Education are launching a new partnership bringing Discovery Education’s new digital math textbook to all middle school students district-wide.

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Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024

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Key points: Today’s students deserve modern tech tools that suit their learning styles and tendencies 5 of the biggest education trends in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page It’s 2024!

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How I use digital curriculum in my math classroom

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Finding applicable resources for discovery-based learning that would fit into existing lesson plans was not always easy. Along with that, the curriculum supplement that came with our new textbooks was starting to replace some of the traditional paper-and-pencil work that we had been doing.

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Friday 5: Personalized learning

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AI can play a role in making personalization more robust in education , along with transforming the student learning experience. Learning now is so much more than making notes from a textbook and critiquing other people’s ideas.

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App of the Week: One of the best note-takers out there

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If there’s a chart in the textbook they want to reference quickly, they can snap a picture and add it to their notes. Bottom line : An excellent tool that lets students make their notes thorough and useful in the way that best suits their learning styles and abilities. Click here to read the full app review. .

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