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Mathematics teacher educators face a challenge of preparing teachers to use technology that is rapidly changing and easily available. Teachers have access to thousands of digital tools to use with students and need guidance about how to critically choose and use tools to support students’ mathematics learning. Research provides guidance to teachers about what features to look for in a technology tool and suggestions are offered about how mathematics teacher educators and researchers can support teachers in using technology to teach mathematics.
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Transforming Education or Digitizing the Status Quo?
Four key lessons on using technology to catalyze deeper learning. Technology can catalyze pedagogical change, but to do this, digital tools cannot simply be tacked onto existing learning methods. A research team shares how to flip the PD script, guiding teachers first to identify a critical question for students to explore and then examine technologies that support an inquiry-based approach. In this way, teachers (and administrators) learn how to incorporate digital tools in service of pedagogical shifts that deepen learning for all students.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2010530
- PAR ID:
- 10427398
- Editor(s):
- ASCD
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Educatioanal Leadership
- Volume:
- 80
- Issue:
- 9
- ISSN:
- 2829-9639
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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