Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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To Improve Education – Focus on Pedagogy Not Technology

To Improve Education – Focus on Pedagogy Not Technology | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

It’s an exciting time for technology in education. Global tech companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are promoting adaptive teaching systems to give each student a personal tutor that responds to their personal needs and ability. Machine learning systems can analyze data from online learning platforms to predict a student’s future performance. Virtual reality offers alternative worlds of historical re-enactment and scientific wonder. Even drones have been recruited to the teaching of geography.

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Teaching Analytics: Analyze Your Lesson Plans To Improve Them - eLearning Industry

Teaching Analytics: Analyze Your Lesson Plans To Improve Them - eLearning Industry | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

This is the second in a series of articles discussing analytics for the classroom teacher. Here, we focus on Teaching Analytics and how it can support classroom teachers to reflect on their teaching designs.

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Five ideas to improve teacher quality - The Hechinger Report

Five ideas to improve teacher quality - The Hechinger Report | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Low-performing schools struggle to attract and retain good teachers. This June, in an effort to give more students access to excellent teachers, the United States Department of Education required states to submit “educator equity plans,” meant to identify the root causes of why poor and minority kids receive more inexperienced teachers and fix the problem. Earlier this month, plans from 16 states were approved and while these plans vary in specifics, many of the states focused on reforming teacher preparation as the key first step to improve quality.

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4 tools for spicing up lectures

4 tools for spicing up lectures | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
In today's increasingly device-saturated learning spaces, instruction demands interaction.
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Utilize Your Students and Surveys to Measure Your Teaching Effectiveness

Utilize Your Students and Surveys to Measure Your Teaching Effectiveness | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
A teacher’s stakeholders’ satisfaction with their course is an important measure of instructional effectiveness that is too often overlooked or outright ignored.
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7 Steps series

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7 Steps guides to help teaching staff to improve their teaching and support for Plymouth University students.

 

These short guides provide knowledge and useful  ideas and steps to improve your teaching and learning across a range of topics. 

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3 Myths of Flipped Learning

3 Myths of Flipped Learning | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Flipped Learning is a philosophy, not a method of teaching. It provides an approach where “students can learn information without the presence of a teacher”
Lee SCHLENKER's curator insight, November 26, 2014 3:05 AM

Flipped Learning is a broad pedagogical approach, to the point where it’s more of an approach to your thinking about Education