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Edtech Tools for SPED, Math, and Reading

A Principal's Reflections

I still vividly remember having lunch with Dave Moyer, the superintendent, where he explained in detail the vision that had been set for the district, centered around the six C's (collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, character, citizenship). It was at this time that the decision was made for me to assist.

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

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It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Heather Brantley Educator, Instructional Technologist and Edtech Consultant EdSurge: What sparked your interest in incorporating more technology into your teaching methods?

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How AI Can Foster Creative Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

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It won’t necessarily have those pedagogical pieces baked in or the accessibility and other edtech integrations that you need. It won’t necessarily have those pedagogical pieces baked in or the accessibility and other edtech integrations that you need. Check if the AI tool is actually designed for education specifically.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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While he’s enthusiastic about its potential, others are less sure what to think about it. For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year. These days, Kohn thinks of a chatbot as a sort of a TA-plus.

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How Educators Save Time and Energy in Their Content Creation and Feedback Loops

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It is not uncommon for teachers to spend hours searching through edtech tools to customize and differentiate for individual student needs. What if you want to see what your students are doing on those screens in the traditional classroom? In a typical setting, we can move around our classroom.

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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3)

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creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, resiliency) and crosses multiple disciplines (e.g. And, regrettably, when it comes to education, they remain constrained by tradition. Making games cultivates a range of hard skills (e.g. coding) and soft skills (e.g.

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Facebook Makes It Cheap to Market to New Students. But It Costs Colleges Dearly.

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Enrollment marketers piggybacked on the traditional practice from our colleagues in admissions of buying lists of names of students who have taken the ACT and SAT. We’ve aligned ourselves with a partner that is in direct opposition to the values higher education claims to hold dear: truth, curiosity, democracy, critical thinking and debate.