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How Technology Can Help Deepen Students’ Learning

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Deep learning constitutes the three top levels of Bloom’s taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Fortunately, technology tools can provide support for each stage. Technology-Supported Surface-Level Learning. Technology-Supported Transfer of Learning. Technology-Support Deep Learning.

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Technology’s Role in Putting Learning Science Research To Work

Digital Promise

Technology supports communication and collaboration via email, blogs, and digital apps, among other tools. Supporting data gathering, analysis, and timely feedback. Numerous studies have shown students in collaborative learning environments outperform those in competitive or individualistic learning settings.

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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

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That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms. Educational Technology Support! Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools.

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The role of technology in the PYP

EdTech4Beginners

In addition to these general uses, PYP teachers should also use technology to aid the development of international mindedness, support inquiry learning and to help students to reach deeper understandings. How does technology support the development of international mindedness? How does technology support inquiry?

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He Paid Off Morehouse Grads’ Debt. Now Robert Smith Is Trying Income-Based Financing at HBCUs.

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A 2019 analysis by USA Today found that the percentage of families with Parent PLUS loans at HBCUs is twice that at all colleges combined, despite the fact that over 40 percent of Black families with such loans earn less than $30,000 a year. Others have committed to technology support services to the schools that are part of the network.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform. Student support technology supports students’ academic performance. One common form of student support technology provides round-the-clock remote access to academic tutors.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy and the implications it has for a digital classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

So can technology support higher order thinking? I would say YES it can SUPPORT and even ENCOURAGE higher order thinking. For analysis, try presenting students with data. A good tech tool to support this would be graphing software. Image courtesy of thefeedingdoctor.com. Show them ways of analysing it.

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