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We offer principles that reveal key learning processes essential for achieving learners’ goals. Grounded in research, these principles offer actionable guidance for designing effective EdTech learning experiences, whether you're an educator, curriculum developer, or instructional designer.
We offer principles that reveal key learning processes essential for achieving learners’ goals. Grounded in research, these principles offer actionable guidance for designing effective EdTech learning experiences, whether you're an educator, curriculum developer, or instructional designer.
Essential Learning Processes
Essential Learning Processes
Essential Learning Processes
Memory Formation
Techniques that strengthen low-level cognitive processing to retain and quickly recall facts, concepts, and associations for comprehension and future learning.
Knowledge Refinement
Strategies for correcting misconceptions and improving how accurately and flexibly knowledge is applied in new situations.
Sensemaking
Approaches to foster reflective thinking, practice reasoning skills, and articulate new knowledge to support deeper understanding and problem-solving.
Memory Formation
Techniques that strengthen low-level cognitive processing to retain and quickly recall facts, concepts, and associations for comprehension and future learning.
Knowledge Refinement
Strategies for correcting misconceptions and improving how accurately and flexibly knowledge is applied in new situations.
Sensemaking
Approaches to foster reflective thinking, practice reasoning skills, and articulate new knowledge to support deeper understanding and problem-solving.
Memory Formation
Techniques that strengthen low-level cognitive processing to retain and quickly recall facts, concepts, and associations for comprehension and future learning.
Knowledge Refinement
Strategies for correcting misconceptions and improving how accurately and flexibly knowledge is applied in new situations.
Sensemaking
Approaches to foster reflective thinking, practice reasoning skills, and articulate new knowledge to support deeper understanding and problem-solving.
Built-in Guidance
Built-in Guidance
Built-in Guidance
Versatile Application
Versatile Application
Versatile Application
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Facilitate meaningful conversations about learning
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Tackle a specific problem in your current project
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Seek fresh inspiration for upcoming features
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Evaluate existing learning applications
Guidelines for Collaboration
Guidelines for Collaboration
Guidelines for Collaboration
Whether you’re developing an existing learning experience or seeking fresh inspiration, these principles will guide your creative process toward learner-centered and research-backed solutions.
Whether you’re developing an existing learning experience or seeking fresh inspiration, these principles will guide your creative process toward learner-centered and research-backed solutions.
Whether you’re developing an existing learning experience or seeking fresh inspiration, these principles will guide your creative process toward learner-centered and research-backed solutions.
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Before You Start
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Set Your Goal
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Select Your Cards
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Build a Shared Understanding
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Brainstorm Applications
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Consider Limitations
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Iterate, iterate, iterate
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