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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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Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology

A Principal's Reflections

Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology. Cross-posted at teach.com.

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Why Digital Fluency, Adaptability and AI-Powered Learning Matter More Than Ever

ED Surge

As industries evolve and workforce demands shift, schools and districts have a critical role in ensuring students are prepared for whats ahead. Traditional education models, which focus on knowledge retention alone, arent enough. Consider this: Technology is advancing faster than traditional learning models can accommodate.

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Students Need Learning Opportunities Beyond Core Subjects. Here's Why.

ED Surge

This perception undermines my efforts and sends a troubling message to my students—that learning Arabic, or any subject outside traditional school disciplines, is less meaningful to their learning experience. This also reflects a broader issue that sends a damaging message to students about what’s truly important in their education.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. So yeah, so those are some of the things that I teach: information literacy, research skills, technology, how to use the public library, ASL, cursive, the Dewey Decimal System.

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An AI tutor helped Harvard students learn more physics in less time

The Hechinger Report

PS2 Pal was also instructed to encourage students to think and give it a try themselves before revealing the answer. Unguided use of ChatGPT, the Harvard scientists argue, lets students complete assignments without engaging in critical thinking. Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures.

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I Once Made a Student Cry, and It Made Me a Better Teacher

ED Surge

Education as a Humanizing Practice In Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paulo Freire argues that education should make students more human. It should nurture self-awareness, critical thinking and emotional intelligence, not just enforce compliance.