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4 Core Purposes of Education, According to Sir Ken Robinson
2022年3月2日 · What is education for? As it happens, people differ sharply on this question. It is what is known as an “essentially contested concept.” Like “democracy” and “justice,” “education” means different things to different people.
Integrating Instructional Strategies with Technology | Edutopia
2024年2月23日 · Creating an instructional playbook emerged as a pathway to support teachers with leveraging technology, not just as a supplementary tool but as a crucial component in enhancing impactful teaching strategies, ensuring that …
6 Essential Strategies for Teaching ELLs | Edutopia
2019年4月12日 · To learn about these needs—and best practices for addressing them—I interviewed a range of educators and observers, including Larry Ferlazzo, an educator and author of The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide; longtime teachers of English as a second language (ESL) Emily Francis and Tan Huynh; and the journalist Helen Thorpe, who spent a year …
10 Teacher Picks for Best Tech Tools - Edutopia
2021年2月5日 · 10. Parlay: For those of us who like to discuss rich texts with students, Parlay lets us connect with students remotely, facilitate discussion, and track how the dialogue builds. As students respond, Parlay shows who is contributing and where the conversation is moving as the software visually tracks student responses in a discussion web.
Reflection as a Learning Tool in the Classroom | Edutopia
2023年4月25日 · Reflection is a powerful tool for enhancing learning and knowledge acquisition and is essential for teachers and students. When students engage in reflective thinking, they are better able to analyze and evaluate their experiences, which enables them to extract meaning and actively process what they have learned and to make sense of it.
Using Technology to Support Student Engagement - Edutopia
2023年7月5日 · Students engage deeply in class when tech tools encourage them to construct ideas, collaborate with peers, and create unique work.
Developing Student Leadership Skills - Edutopia
2024年4月11日 · 1. Identify Existing Programs and Opportunities: What student leadership opportunities exist at your school? Consider the full spectrum of both curricular and extracurricular programming: athletics, theater and clubs, peer mentorship programs, outdoor education and community service, and even small group projects within the classroom.
5 Research-Backed Studying Techniques - Edutopia
2019年4月4日 · 4. Interleaving practice: Students may rely on blocked practice, studying a set of problems—such as multiplication problems—as a group until they feel mastery. A more effective method of studying is to work on a set of problems that are related but not all of the same kind—for example, a set of math word problems that call for addition, subtraction, …
7 Smart, Fast Formative Assessment Strategies | Edutopia
2019年4月26日 · 2. Low-stakes quizzes and polls: If you want to find out whether your students really know as much as you think they know, polls and quizzes created with Socrative or Quizlet or in-class games and tools like Quizalize, Kahoot, FlipQuiz, Gimkit, Plickers, and Flippity can help you get a better sense of how much they really understand.(Grading quizzes but …