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William Brannick

Study Shows Which Technology Factors Improve Learning | Earth Times News - 0 views

  • “The most exciting findings were identification of which implementation factors improve learning outcomes,” said Tom Greaves
  • “We found that technology-infused classes in core subject areas, such as science and math, and in intervention classes such as Reading, Title I, English Language Learners and special education, were a significant factor in improvement
  • “In our practice, we see how personalization and individualization of instruction work best when students have 100% access to a computing device,”
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  • 1) Technology-assisted classes help students stay in school - reducing drop-out rates, 2) Schools with 1:1 learning programs, when properly implemented, have better education success than do schools with fewer computing devices and poor implementation 3) But 80% of schools under-utilize technologies they have already purchased.
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    Key findings from 1:1 study
William Brannick

Study: '21st Century Learning' Demands Mix of Abilities - Inside School Research - Educ... - 0 views

  • The committee found these skills generally fall into three categories
  • ognitive skills
  • Intrapersonal skills,
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  • Interpersonal skills
  • and conceptual models within a specific subject area, and even experts often fail to apply
  • Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing and it is very challenging," Mr. Pellagrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way. We do know how to promote transfer but it is limited in scope."
  • The committee found students develop the best ways to solve new problems by learning
  • Yet the keystone skill, the one that underlies and connects skills in all three areas, may be the trickiest to teach and test: a student's ability to transfer and apply her or his existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.
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  • ng knowledge when a problem is presented in a totally new context.
  • "Transfer is deeply connected to your knowledge base and your skill in an area,"
  • "If we really believe that the fundamental proposition here is transfer, it would dramatically affect what we did in curriculum assessment and instruction,"
  • "In math, for example, we wouldn't necessarily just give kids these problem sets but engage them in identifying, framing and solving real-world problems that would use those problem sets."
William Brannick

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning - 0 views

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    A visual description of 21 century skills by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning
William Brannick

Buck Institute for Education | Project Based Learning - 0 views

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    Institute on Project Based Learning
William Brannick

Learning Objects Community - Objects of Interest - 0 views

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    Various ways to implement web 2.0 tools in the classroom
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