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

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It was her own struggles as a math student, which overlapped with her parents’ difficult divorce, that motivated Noriega to strive to cultivate a classroom where her students feel both loved and capable of doing math. There’s a missing human connection when it comes to teaching students about technology, he says.

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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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Math manipulatives are used in many early years math programs as a way to help young children visualize the mathematical concepts they are learning. Math manipulatives are often relegated to only being used for students with Dyscalculia or other learning difficulties. Gros et al.,

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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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What If We Stopped Calling Them Classrooms?

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That’s a big problem that is slowing change in college teaching, argued Wind, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and one of the organizers of the conference. The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It

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