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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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Blended learning occurs when an education program combines Internet-based media with traditional classroom methods. But blended learning is more than simply replacing lectures and books with web-based technology. These should be in place before unpacking a blended learning program. Infrastructure.

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End of Year Activities

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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. In the past my younger children have always used desktop computers and I have taught them about the basic parts of the computer. Well, this year we have replaced those desktop computers with tablets.

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10 Classroom Management Tips You Don’t Want to Miss

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Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin. What to do when Computers are Down? Here are ten of the to p classroom management tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: Is the Socratic Method Right for Your Class? How Great is MS Office Mix. 12 Tips on Hard-to-teach Classes.

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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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Meanwhile, I'm rapidly adding art literacy to my computer classes so that students have the language to make effective AI artwork generation accessible. For example, I've loaded my AP Computer Science Principles textbook into Bing Chat Enterprise. Understanding the names, periods, and artists is more important than ever.

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9 New Zoom Features (and one that’s Kind of Creepy) Announced April 19, 2022

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I have a friend who works at a college who says they are moving many of their professors who don't have Miro subscriptions to zoom because this whiteboard is so powerful.). See Zoom's support files about how to get started with the whiteboard and how to configure it. ( Central Library of Polls.

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