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Will Existing Mental Models Threaten Post-pandemic Progress in Education?

Catlin Tucker

” I hope educators and educational institutions use this year and the lessons learned to reimagine “school” and how we design and facilitate learning. Since the pandemic began, I’ve worked with thousands of school leaders and educators. The Power of Mental Models. Stagnation or Progress.

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

eSchool News

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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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

Edsurge

The data below comes from the Ed Leaders workshop at the Austin Tech For Schools Summits. They are present when we’re building relationships with our peers, policies for our schools, or lesson plans in our classrooms. Learn more about how EdSurge Concierge can help make it faster, more reliable, and tailored to your school.

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

Edsurge

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Kay estimates that some 800 school systems across the U.S

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

Edsurge

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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Book review – Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

Dangerously Irrelevant

This post is a review of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today by Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray. There is lots of value in this book and a great deal of information that validates what we know about good leadership and strong school organizations. My short recommendation? What I liked about the book.

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#ICE18: Robert Dillon Explains the Pillars of Technology Integration

EdTech Magazine

After serving as a teacher, a principal and, currently, the director of technology and innovation at University City School District outside of greater St. Robert Dillon, director of technology and innovation at University City School District. We need to be thoughtful about that purchase for schools. Photo courtesy of Linkedin.