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Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology

eSchool News

As digital natives, today’s students have grown up with technology integrated into every aspect of their lives, and education is no exception. In response, students are also choosing the devices they want to use for learning, and why shouldn’t they? Other tools going the way of the overhead projector? Enter the age of BYOD.

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Google’s Adaptive Learning Technologies Help Amplify Educators’ Instruction

EdTech Magazine

high school class has 30 students, according to research from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and while each student learns in their own way, practice and specific feedback are repeatedly shown to be effective in modern classrooms. Achieving both aims at once sounds like a tall order, but adaptive learning technologies help to do…

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Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week. Even a decade ago, technology was an extra class in student schedules where now, it is a life skill. Kindergarten is the perfect time to start (for the reasons listed below–they love it and learn fast).

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Google’s Adaptive Learning Technologies Help Amplify Educators’ Instruction

EdTech Magazine

high school class has 30 students, according to research from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and while each student learns in their own way, practice and specific feedback are repeatedly shown to be effective in modern classrooms. This saves educators time and provides insight into students’ learning processes and patterns.

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Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Embracing the Student-Centered Classroom

Catlin Tucker

In my experience leading the shift to blended learning, the only way to truly engage students in learning is to allow them to actively lead the process, make decisions, and pursue learning through a lens of interest. This means that teachers must let go of control and allow students to take ownership of their learning.

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Universally Designed Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Second, technology is here to stay. So, how do we design and facilitate learning experiences to remove barriers and allow all students to succeed? How can we leverage technology to provide meaningful choices within a learning experience and create the time and space needed to work with individual students or small groups of learners?

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3 Principles for Using Technology in the Classroom to Personalize and Improve Learning

Catlin Tucker

Technology is a distraction. I hear comments like these in almost every professional learning session involving technology. I don’t think teachers are frustrated with technology itself. Theyre frustrated with the way its being used, especially when it fails to create meaningful or engaging learning.