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Tips for Supporting Students With Special Needs Using Technology

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Foster Collaborative Learning While technology in education often focuses on individual learning, fostering collaborative learning is equally essential for students with special needs. Collaborative learning nurtures social skills, builds confidence, and enhances problem-solving abilities.

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Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning

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It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Early Numeracy as a Cornerstone of Long-Term Academic Success

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However, despite the emphasis on STEM in later years, the importance of early numeracy in shaping long-term academic success is equally critical yet sometimes overlooked. Just as early literacy sets the stage for reading comprehension, early numeracy establishes a critical foundation for mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

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Using a Student-Centered Approach to Promote Computational Thinking

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How can teachers engage students to learn problem-solving skills across the curriculum? One program has set out to teach computational thinking (CT) and coding skills in a problem-centered approach, fostering a student-driven learning design. How do teachers and students benefit from a problem-centered coding curriculum?

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Engaging All Learners: Expanding High School Options for Success

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These institutions typically adhere to a one-size-fits-all approach, offering a rigid curriculum that doesn’t necessarily cater to the diverse learning needs and styles of all students. You must be ready to adapt your teaching strategies, align the use of technology with learning objectives, and ensure equality in access.

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Holiday Activities To Keep the Learning Going

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It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Pre-holiday school days are great for supporting school goals surrounding Habits of Mind, problem-solving, and critical thinking with websites that focus on those skills.

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Resources You Need During Covid-19

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What are the biggest problems I face moving my teaching online? Tech knowledge–don’t give up; there are only so many problems. Once they’re solved, most of the rest of the experience will go smoothly. Problemssolve these together, you and the parents. What do I do?