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Promoting Student Agency in Learning

Defined Learning

Over the past two school years, educators, students, and their families have experienced learning and living in new ways. Although those school years may not have gone as we had planned and we may not have covered as much of the content as we had hoped or had opportunities that we wanted for our students, learning still happened.

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It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?

ED Surge

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. A great deal of edtech purchases went unused , equity gaps widened , and teachers and students were burned out. Students take the medicine, their bodies respond, and hopefully a positive change takes place.

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Why Early Childhood Teachers Require a Unique Approach to Tech Coaching

ED Surge

“My students can't use these digital programs.” “I Our students already have so much daily screen time.” In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these. It’s exhausting to get them all logged in.”

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Improving Teacher and Student Engagement Through Creativity

ED Surge

Engagement and creativity play such important roles in the learning process, but with the myriad of other requirements and obligations, they can easily get lost in the abyss of deadlines and mandates. Creativity helps develop a deeper sense of learning, yet we keep our “creative” units until after state testing is over.

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To Make Assignments More Meaningful, I’m Giving Students a More Authentic Audience

ED Surge

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. A core part of that is preparing students to write out in the real world. To what end?

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Technology is Here to Stay: Now What?

Ask a Tech Teacher

He has some interesting reflections on technology’s place in education: Remember the days of Oregon Trail on the old Apple IIe’s or students drawing pictures with Kid Pix. Many platforms offer a more advanced gaming process that builds student vocabulary or is more engaging today. Most companies offer such opportunities.

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Earth Day Class Activities

Ask a Tech Teacher

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was passed. Lesson plans for Earth Day Too often, Earth Day events focus on massive worldwide apocalypses that students can’t impact, events like the death of rainforests and the melting of glaciers. It can be any ecology-sensitive book that will inform students on this subject.