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How Digital Tools Improve Teaching and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Understanding how they are impacting teaching and learning will help guide your consideration of which tools are useful and how to best implement them. How do you see digital tools transforming teaching and learning? Image retrieved from https://l2lbyte.wordpress.com/learning-videos/ Currently, online tools.

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Devices Need to Support Learning

A Principal's Reflections

At NMHS we place a great deal of emphasis on creating artifacts to demonstrate conceptual mastery. Another image created by my friend Bill Ferriter puts into perspective the importance of establishing learning outcomes when integrating technology as part of the teaching and learning process.

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Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Taught Them

TeachThought

For example, you can implore students to ‘think critically,’ but if they don’t have even the basic phrasing of critical thinking (e.g., ‘This is important because…’), critical thinking will be beyond their reach.

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Standardization Will Destroy Our Education System, If It Hasn't Already

A Principal's Reflections

As a leader this is the type of teaching and learning culture that I want to foster and cultivate, one where creativity flourishes, students find relevancy and meaning in their learning, and teachers are given the support to be innovative. A teaching and learning culture powered by intrinsic motivation will achieve this.

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An Updated Guide To Questioning In The Classroom

TeachThought

If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think, then focusing on how we can help students ask better questions themselves might make sense, no? Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers The ability to ask the right question at the right time is a powerful indicator of authentic understanding.

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The Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

When I work with teachers, I encourage them to design their online station to prioritize at least one of the 4Cs of 21st-century learning: (1) critical thinking, (2) communication, (3) collaboration, and (4) creativity. Creativity Allow students to use digital tools to create artifacts of their learning (e.g.,

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Most Students Think History Is Boring. Here's How We Change That.

ED Surge

Throughout this lesson, my students not only learn the content but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze evidence, put together persuasive arguments and respectfully debate their peers. Introducing these artifacts often prompts students to share their own, creating a powerful, emotional experience.

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