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

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public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. 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? Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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

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Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Frameworks provide mental models, but “don’t usually help educators know what to do differently,” argues technology leadership expert Scott McLeod in his latest book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning.

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What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms?

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The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It The conference session was pitched as a debate on the question, “Is the Classroom Dead?” It does not take into account all of the developments that we know about the way people learn.”

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