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Accelerate Tech Integration In Schools With This Essential Skill For Students.
How drawing on outside experiences and analogies helps students move beyond outdated solutions and adapt to new Tech-driven learning.
Technologies like A.I, The internet of things, Virtual Reality Headsets and many others will make you feel like if you don’t “get in on it” while the fruit is ripe, then you just might risk missing out on a financial opportunity of an lifetime. But if you feel like you can’t afford it, the next best thing is leveraging the technology to “make millions in your craft”. At least that’s what we are sold through dozens of success stories.
If you think about the release of the first I-phone, many (myself included) aspired to buy one not because of the technology but because of how using the tech made you feel which was mostly along the lines of being an innovative person destined to create brilliant things, whatever that may be. Yet, we all know that most people use their smartphones in some of the dumbest ways without a clue in the world as to how to reap the full benefits of the item they bought.
According to Justin Reich’s, an associate professor in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies/Writing program who has been studying schools for a couple of…
