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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

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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. professional learning products which provide content and support for teachers versus professional development systems which districts can use to support teachers.

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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. Heather Wolpert-Gawron offers a good role-model. The more concrete, the better.

Skills 167
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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.

Math 52