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Digital vs Traditional: How Digital Education Is Changing the Educational Landscape

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This fundamental paradigm shift cleared the path for the emerging trend of digital education, which has permanently changed how students learn and teachers teach. Giving kids the necessary 21st-century skills and digital literacy has become crucial in this brave new world.

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Remember our Veteran’s Today

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Following a tradition inaugurated by King George V in 1919, the day is also marked by war remembrances in many non-Commonwealth countries. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3)

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According to the National Center on Education Statistics , the number of adults with children under the age of 18 reporting that “computers were always or usually available for education purposes” has risen to 94 percent. Nearly all of these skills are required for jobs in a digital world with an increasingly distributed workforce.

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What is Constructivism and How Does it Fit Your Class?

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Constructivism builds on well-accepted education ideas like Jean Piaget’s belief that play is critical to learning, Marie Montessori’s teachings that exploration is essential to growth, and Lev Vygotsky’s theory that knowledge leads to further learning (the foundation for life-long learning). Traditional teaching vs. Constructivism .

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3 Ways To Improve Student Success With Strong Course Design

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In the traditional classroom setting, there is not much we could do to ramp up students prior to the start of the course. of learners (higher education and further education) believed that digital skills were crucial in their career but only about 50% believed that their course prepares them for it.

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How to go Paperless in Your Classroom

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To kickstart your paperless digital classroom requires a modicum of preparation. Take a few weekends this summer to set up a class blog and class website and get comfortable with the digital side of your school. digital devices for students–Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, or netbooks. erasing is easier on digital devices.

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PCAS Expansion, Growth, Research, and SIGCSE 2024 Presentations

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One course is like the Media Computation course I developed at Georgia Tech, but in Python 3: COMPFOR 221: Digital Media with Python. When we first offered it, we called it “Python Programming for Digital Media,” and at the end of registration, we had only five students enrolled! The course title has changed.

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