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Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation

ED Surge

The webinars, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS) , served as a platform for gaining valuable insights from education leaders, policymakers and edtech product developers. Educator and edtech consultant Rachelle Dené Poth agrees, sharing how she encourages her students to use AI-powered tools in the classroom.

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Our 10 Most Popular K-12 Stories of 2022

ED Surge

We dove into the role of teachers in edtech decision-making and the use of evidence in the development of learning technologies. We explored new efforts by school districts to address staff shortages and other ongoing fallout from the pandemic, including four-day school weeks and more flexible, better-paying teaching programs.

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Back to School for Leaders: How to prepare

Magic EdTech

As students go back to school in the fall, here are some of our key takeaways regarding how the classrooms are evolving to become more inclusive and flexible: 1. Invest in instructional technology coaches who assist teachers in leveraging edtech solutions. Creating a Flexible Learning Environment. Seize the School Year.

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Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better

Cool Cat Teacher

Figjam is a cool, flexible, fun, collaborative space for student projects, presentations, and collaborations. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What is Figjam? Now is the time to sign up for Research Quest from the Natural History Museum of Utah.

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How Instructional Designers Create Learning Experiences(LX)

Magic EdTech

At Magic EdTech, instructional design professional expertise is one of our core service offerings. Flexible structure allowing learners to master material in various ways at their own pace. How Magic EdTech LX Designers Work. Our examples focus on building critical thinking and problem-solving. Interaction design.

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The Role of Simulations in the Learning Journey

Magic EdTech

Simulations, on the whole, improve students’ critical thinking skills and empower their understanding of a variety of subjects. Much of the initial high costs of simulations was due to creation and development, luckily now there are some more flexible ways to bring this cost down and make it more attainable to administer.

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10+ Ways to Use Adobe Express in the Classroom

Cool Cat Teacher

Jesse Lubinsky Adobe Express and one that pops out to mind right away is text to image, which allows you to simply take text and turn it into an And so, you know, from an instructional standpoint, from a pedagogical standpoint, I think we're moving from this paradigm of having students search for content to creating content.