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How Digital Tools Improve Teaching and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

When digital tools are integrated in a pedagogically sound fashion they also promote and enhance other essential skills sets such as communication, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, entrepreneurship, global awareness, and digital responsibility/citizenship. digital learning educational technology ICLE'

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For Teens Online, Conspiracy Theories Are Commonplace. Media Literacy Is Not.

ED Surge

That’s according to a new study by the News Literacy Project, which also found that teens struggle with identifying false information online. This comes at a time when media literacy education isn’t available to most students, the report finds, and their ability to distinguish between objective and biased information sources is weak.

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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

ED Surge

Now all of a sudden, without asking teachers to give up their weekends to grade,” he says, “we can give all that information to the student and teacher within seconds.” But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback.

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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation

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Educator and edtech consultant Rachelle Dené Poth agrees, sharing how she encourages her students to use AI-powered tools in the classroom. You have to show students how [generative AI] is just a tool and let them know that this is not supposed to replace their own critical thinking, creativity and all these skills they need,” says Poth.

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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

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But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. The result is the book “ Verified: How to think straight, get duped less and make better decisions about what to believe online.”

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Research shows lower test scores for fourth graders who use tablets in schools

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. “Technology is not bad in general,” she said, “although I would argue for younger children, it’s questionable whether it has benefits.” ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. Math anxiety can increase cognitive load, which is the mental effort required to process information.

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