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Personalized Learning and Digital Tools Weave Strong Fabric for Student Success

EdTech Magazine

Teachers in personalized-learning classrooms say that, using technology, they are better able to differentiate instruction , are more aware of student needs and are able to self-direct their own professional development efforts. Personalized Education Makes Students Future-Ready.

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What's Really Getting in the Way of Teachers Embracing Edtech?

Edsurge

Ertmer first distinguished between “first- and second-order barriers” to the effective use of technology in the classroom in 1999, referring to categories of challenges that are sometimes called “external and internal barriers.” A teacher in another school with less support might be less effective in using edtech.

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How to ensure edtech ROI? Ask these 4 questions

eSchool News

Designated edtech coordinators can take the lead, working with principals and curriculum leaders to set goals, leading professional learning, and fostering digital tool adoption. This collaboration also ensures technology support teams will understand the importance of edtech tools and keeping them accessible and functioning.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

Yet even that kind of change signals to students that the technologies that touch their lives, in work, studying or in leisure, are going to continuously change. Many of those technologies support collaboration. But in the past, many of the “professional learning experiences” offered to them have been flaccid or poorly designed.

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Leadership Coaching and How Students and Teachers Benefit

Digital Promise

Out of this body of work, we developed a theory of change for digital transformation to support and guide our work with educators on the frontlines of technology-supported innovation. Technology Infrastructure. Personalized Professional Learning. Establishing Goals and Program Evaluation.

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Not Just for Reading Class Anymore: 5 Tips for Teaching Literacy Across Multiple Subjects

Edsurge

But after talking to a number of different educators and reading their various accounts, what I can tell you is that your peers have discovered creative, technology-supported ways to approach teaching reading, writing and vocabulary in their multi-subject classrooms—and they were willing to share it to help you out.

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Teacher Self-Reflection is Hard. Here’s How Technology Can Help

Edthena

That’s the reason why teacher self-reflection is included in most schools’ professional learning standards and rubrics. In the AI Coach platform, teachers have specialized tools to analyze their classroom teaching videos and then leave timestamped comments tied to their professional goals.