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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

One drawback to LMS platforms is that they are not uniform in the level of technological support that they provide to users. This becomes a problem in the educational realm, as different academic disciplines typically require different levels of baseline technological support.

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The role of technology in the PYP

EdTech4Beginners

For more information, please refer to the IB website. What does the PYP say about technology? Though many schools teach ICT as a discrete subject, the PYP strongly emphasises that technology should also be used as a tool for learning by all teachers and students. Technology has made these things possible for all teachers.

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Connecting Parents to Student’s Digital Lives

The CoolCatTeacher

Mike: We’ve started a weekly email to about 400 parents so far, where we’re covering topics like digital citizenship, security, filtering, social media — everything that really relates to how students should use technology today. Vicki: Wow, how do you do that? and how parents can work with that idea at home.

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#ICE18: Redesigning a Classroom Is Not About Being “Pretty for Pinterest”

EdTech Magazine

In Learning Transformed , we refer to such design as the “cemetery effect” and it’s imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students. Social media is like a giant search engine that we can tap any time. We can connect with other educators.

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Resources for Teachers and Instructional Coaches – September 2021

Edthena

Many school systems issue weekly newsletters to keep the school community up-to-date on safety policies and conditions, as well as provide updates on social media feeds and emails. Communication from school to home about safety protocols has been constant since March 2020 due to changing health conditions and safety protocols.

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Ambient learning

Learning with 'e's

This approach to ambient learning (some might also refer to activity learning ) proves to be more authentic, and the learning can be applied directly to tasks in situ - real learning for real contexts. 'On On the job' training has always existed - but has been based upon the apprenticeship model (see yesterday's post for elaboration).

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IUT Conference 2018 – Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design

Learning Confluence

technologies support connected and collaborative pedagogies. Holistic approaches with a focus on multimodal design extends learning into online spaces for improved engagement, provision for response choices (text, audio, video), online publishing and media creation while fostering new pedagogical approaches. REFERENCES.