Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

These types of tools—many of which mirror popular consumer technologies—are a natural extension of the technology students and teachers use outside of the classroom. In fact, it requires the same level of candor and thoughtfulness that product developers should bring in understanding educator and student challenges they want to solve.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Dillon recognizes that moving forward with technology integration in K-12 is about closing the experience gap so that administrators, teachers and students see examples of how to improve education. to talk about how districts can make these changes and graduate students who are ready to take on the world. Photo courtesy of Linkedin.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

The purpose of this workshop is to help administrators and teachers assess when higher-order thinking skills and student agency factors are (or are not) present in classroom uses of technology by students and teachers. Purpose and objectives. Right now we are doing a poor job of helping educators with these tasks. Register here!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

Technology must be leveraged and used as an accelerant for student learning. I wish they spent more time here talking about a visioning process that was less leader-centric and focused more on educators, students, and parents figuring out together what their why is instead of simply being sold their why by the leader.

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Lab to Class

MARCH 31, 2024

  While these math manipulatives are common in math classrooms for younger children, there is a clear trend of less of a focus on visualizations as students get older. Math manipulatives are often relegated to only being used for students with Dyscalculia or other learning difficulties. Gros et al.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans. So, there is a teacher, there is a student.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

That’s what professor Jerry Wind asked the audience at the the Reimagine Education conference this week, and he guessed that most envisioned a professor at the front of a group of students gathered in rows. The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Nearly nine out of ten students graduate high school. Yet, according to Gallup polling of students , more high school students are actively disengaged in school than are engaged. He offered a different mental model through a new metaphor. We have achieved near-universal basic literacy.

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