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

Catlin Tucker

I fear schools will revert to what is comfortable and what aligns with existing mental models instead of questioning the status quo, taking inventory of the lessons learned this year, and paving a new path forward. Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments.

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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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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

Edsurge

EdSurge connected with Caulfield to talk about his strategies for managing today’s flood of information — and how new AI tools will impact efforts by educators to teach information literacy. If there's one thing we want to teach students, it's how to better choose what to invest their attention and time in. Information is abundant.

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

Edsurge

Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. 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.

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

Edsurge

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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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

Edsurge

And they are especially present when we build or implement technology to support teaching and learning. Too often, school leaders focus on finding the right instructional model and assume that the technology will fit. Discovering the right edtech is hard. But how aware are educators of the assumptions behind edtech tools?

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

Dangerously Irrelevant

This will NOT be a sit-and-get session with a few questions at the end. We will be talking continuously with each other throughout the workshop, so questions will be actively solicited throughout rather than waiting until the end and letting just a few folks ask questions. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013.