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What Is a Modern Learning Environment?

EdTech Magazine

Education has shifted dramatically in recent decades — from an emphasis on fact memorization through “drill and kill” and “sage on the stage” teaching styles to a focus on higher-order thinking and future-ready skills such as critical thinking and problem solving.

Learning 360
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If we’re not irrelevant, what are we?

Dangerously Irrelevant

But we rarely foster ‘future ready’ policies, instructional and leadership practices, or school organizational redesigns. utilize digital technologies in academic- and work-productive ways that go far beyond social uses or mere replication of analog instructional practices. We talk a lot against federal and state policy.

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Education technology and the future of Higher Ed leadership

Neo LMS

Another 20 percent of respondents delved into more detail to point out that personal electronic devices, such as tablets and smartphones, are changing the way students and instructors alike approach education.”. Education technology and the future of Higher Ed.

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3 Techniques for Promoting Resilience in Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

We typically hear that while most learners own smartphones, they are “only” using them for things like social media and text messaging. Burning Glass data suggest that it’s not the whiz-bang, Jetsonian technologies that are most needed for learners to become “future ready.” These data tend to be confirmed by adult educators.

Software 303
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Trending: This style of learning has teachers and students re-imagining Future-Ready

eSchool News

With tablets, smartphones, and access to computers, students can search for answers to their questions in a way that wouldn’t have seen possible a decade ago. Richard Byrne, blogger, speaker, and former high school social studies teacher.

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What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers

Edsurge

And the work has led her to strong views on the question of whether or not to ban smartphones in schools. Not always be focusing on our to-do list and what's in the future. Readiness is important. She hopes to reframe this period of development as what she calls “a time of possibility.” But we need to be in the nowness, too.

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Why Talking About 'Screen Time' is the Wrong Conversation

Edsurge

Destinations serves school districts with flexible CTE solutions to get students “future-ready” for a changing job market, providing career exploration, real-world experience, and certification prep. This week’s podcast is brought to you by Destinations Career Academy, powered by k12. Yeah, it was in Slate.