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The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade. Here’s What’s Next.

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But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. Staffing models varied, but most schools featured in the report used a variety of new but related roles. Yet the authors found challenges as well.

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

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Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas. In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement. The more concrete, the better.

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

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ISTE Administrator Standards A-2, ISTE Teacher Standards T-2, ISTE Coach Standards C-2. 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. Date / time.

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

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Tom and Eric back these up with a variety of research studies to support the importance of each one. Tom and Eric do a great job of citing research in their book, but it would be helpful to have some research-based frameworks and mental models that tie the list items together. All of this is good.

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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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Perhaps books will have a diagram or teachers will attempt to explain a way to visualize a higher level math concept, but rarely do math textbooks and other math exercises for middle and high school explicitly focus on visualizations.

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Why Education Is a ‘Wicked Problem’ for Learning Engineers to Solve

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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.