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Using a Student-Centered Approach to Promote Computational Thinking

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How can teachers engage students to learn problem-solving skills across the curriculum? One program has set out to teach computational thinking (CT) and coding skills in a problem-centered approach, fostering a student-driven learning design. EdSurge: How would you describe the CoolThink curriculum adoption for your school?

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Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin

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In fact, it’s transformed 21st-century education, offering a normative tool for adapting to varied student needs, a scalable approach to differentiating for student learning styles, and a collaborative must-have with its vast offering of virtual meeting and storage options. Infrastructure. Online Course delivery system.

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Balance the Delivery

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Four to six hours in front of a computer for instruction. School administrators and teachers are feeling the fatigue, as well as their jobs become increasingly dependent on computer and phone usage. The plan was to have students go an entire day without using their computers. Unaccounted time for social media and gaming usage.

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Embracing Flexibility: Enhancing Robotics and Computer Science Classes

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As educators, we eagerly anticipate the start of a new school year while using our summer break to recharge and prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead. In this article, we will explore how embracing flexibility and innovation can enhance your robotics and computer science classes.

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End of Year Activities

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Many of these, educators would love to teach but “just don’t have time for “, even though they align well with broad goals of preparing students for college and career. Here’s a great question I got from Sandy: I am a computer teacher for Elementary as well as for preschoolers…ages 3 and 4. Do you have any ideas?

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How Tech Enhances Class Performance

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California has recently increased state investment in school technology , focusing on better broadband connections and supporting further teaching of computer science. However, blended learning takes the positive aspects of technology and combines them with tried and tested teaching methods.

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8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the Classroom

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The US Office of Educational Technology says, "Everyone in education has a responsibility to harness the good to serve educational priorities while also protecting against the dangers that may arise as a result of AI being integrated in educational technology." Is this a problem we need to care about or talk about?