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Substance Over Assumptions and Generalizations

A Principal's Reflections

This week I came across a post by Larry Ferlazzo that asked educators to provide their response to why EdTech has over-promised and under-delivered. So what is the biggest problem in EdTech? Artifacts : Examples of digital lessons, projects, assessments (formative, summative, rubrics, etc.) Nor should it!

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5 Clear Ways Digital Benefits Learners

A Principal's Reflections

Collaborative exchanges among peers, teachers, authors, and mentors can turn a simple student writing product into a multifaceted and informative artifact. By selecting appropriate tools, students can create artifacts that demonstrate their conceptual mastery while acquiring and applying essential skill sets.

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Creating Interactive Lessons Through App Smashing

A Principal's Reflections

Content consumption does not equate to the construction of new knowledge, discourse, answering questions, solving a problem, or creating a learning artifact. That is a good start, but not a solution if learning is the goal. Here is where app smashing comes into play.

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Assessing the Value of Interactive Whiteboards (IWB's)

A Principal's Reflections

In each case, an activity can be designed to get kids using the IWB to collaborate, manipulate, solve problems, and create artifacts of learning. Blended learning represents the best option in the form of station rotation, choice boards, and playlists.

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Improving Instruction in a Digital World

A Principal's Reflections

Allowing students choice over which tools they will use to create artifacts of their learning that demonstrate conceptual mastery builds a greater appreciation for learning while simultaneously preparing them for the real world.

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How Edtech for Teachers Helps Collaboration and Professional Learning

Edthena

There are plenty of reasons and ways to use edtech with students in the classroom, but what about edtech for teachers? Watch the full interview above or read the highlights below, including how edtech for teachers can help boost collaboration. Edtech for teachers bridges the gaps to more collaboration.

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Which Edtech Tool Should I Choose?

Digital Promise

How can educators feel confident that an edtech tool supports learning? As an educator, I struggled to find reliable information about edtech tools as nearly every product I looked at claimed that it was based on research. an easily accessible public facing artifact shares the product’s research basis, such as a blog or video. “We

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