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Researchers Meet at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to Discuss the Emergence of the Digital Teaching Platform in K-12 Education | SYS-CON CANADA

Researchers Meet at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to Discuss the Emergence of the Digital Teaching Platform in K-12 Education | SYS-CON CANADA
Researchers Meet at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to Discuss the Emergence of the Digital Teaching Platform in K-12 Education

This month, 15 leading scholars and researchers in the fields of education and educational technology convened at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to present and discuss research on a new product category emerging in K-12 education: the digital teaching platform. The workshop was hosted by the Research Advisory Board of Time To Know, developers of an interactive curriculum system designed specifically for today’s one-to-one computing classrooms.

The Research Advisory Board plans to publish a book on this research, which will discuss the evolution of the digital teaching platform and its potential to transform teaching, learning and assessment in K-12 education. The digital teaching platform is designed to function as the primary instructional environment in today’s technology-intensive classrooms. The platform operates in a teacher-led classroom as the primary carrier of core curriculum content. It supports the teacher with tools for curriculum planning, classroom management and assessment.

“The digital teaching platform is an innovative approach to personalizing student learning in a group classroom setting,” said Chris Dede, Ed.D., the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a member of the Research Advisory Board. “The research community is developing a variety of strategies for achieving this goal. Time To