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Raising the Smart Classroom’s IQ – By Dr. Paul Fornelli

ViewSonic Education

Lastly, Kinesthetic learners need a more tactile, “hands-on” approach to their studies; they learn best via the use of simulations, personal experience, and/or repeated practice. One drawback to LMS platforms is that they are not uniform in the level of technological support that they provide to users.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

When districts invest in new instructional technology, many teachers find that at first their students are quiet and focused, clicking away on activities aligned to their instructional needs. 7th Grade Informational Writing: How is social media used in times of crisis? 6th Grade Narrative Writing: Who were the Greek gods?

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It’s late 2015 and we’re still overblocking the Internet

Dangerously Irrelevant

One of my doctoral students’ dissertations at the University of Minnesota , for instance, found that overzealous school filtering prohibited student access to online content essential for satisfying state Social Studies and Health curricular standards. Sometimes it’s simple confusion around what actually must be filtered.

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What are Good Tech Goals for Students?

Ask a Tech Teacher

But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. The metric for measuring technology skills isn’t a rubric with a list of skills (i.e., Everyone who uses technology knows it breaks down. One study predicted a 114% chance of having tech problems when using a computer.

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Are we more intelligent?

Learning with 'e's

Carr's essential thesis is that we are bombarded with content on the Internet, and cope with this by reducing our depth of study whilst increasing our breadth of study. So the future of technology supported learning is uncertain and contested. Such questions are exactly what the study of the future is all about.

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10Q: Helen Keegan

Learning with 'e's

In today's 10Q interview, Helen answers questions about her philosophy on learning, social media and her current projects in higher education, including alternate reality games: Who are you? heloukee (online), Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media and Social Technologies at the University of Salford.

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Technology and Capstone Courses

Dr. Shannon Doak

Technology can enhance the structure and requirements of the program by enabling students to do more. In “How Does Technology Facilitate Learning? Furthermore, technology can assist the structure and requirements of the program by supporting students in their own ability to keep track of and organize data gathered through the project.

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