ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

Climate change, among many issues, worries Barbara Schneider as she thinks about whether younger generations will be prepared to face scientific challenges altering the world. “I That gives us the tools that we need to be able to solve problems that we may not know how to do, but we can take the challenge, and we can find out how to fix it.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

In honor of Martin Luther King: MLK Day in the US is the third Monday of January, this year, January 15, 2024. Ask a Tech Teacher’s 19-page two-lesson plan bundle to teach about Martin Luther King (click for more information) is 66% off January 12, 2024 through Jan. BTW, we’re always open to sponsors. We love sponsors!

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. Because what I have noticed is that most of this conversation happens in distinct corners,” he says.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Here are popular online resources to teach about news sources for kids ( click here for updates to this list ): Allsides (news stories compared across multiple political perspectives) Breaking News –from Class Tools, create your own screen BBC News (app) C News for kids Kids News – Current Events Listenwise Newsela –news for kids, reformatted at (..)

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2024

I detest when people talk about their dreams. It’s similar to listening to a 4-year-old tell you about their day. For this reason, I’m compelled to tell you about a dream I had last week. A recent conversation with a friend about my teaching woes ended with him saying, “Don’t let it consume you.”

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This practical episode from a classroom teacher will help us explain learning to our students. As you learn about the Learning Pit, prepare to move from challenge to triumph. Podcast Episode Stream by clicking here. Transcript Transcript Vicki Davis (00:01) I'm so excited to have James Nottingham with us.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 21, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence is the topic of conversation for anyone who cares about learning, scholarship, and the future of our world, and rightly so. The job losses are supposed to be staggering.

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All About STEM

APRIL 11, 2024

Online Session: 7 May 2024 North West STEM teachers can join us online for a snappy-session of STEM inspiration – come and get the Inside Scoop each month!

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“What will you remember about our class?” I learned about this revolutionary classroom practice in Alexis Wiggins’ 2017 book, “The Best Class You Never Taught.” I wondered if I could use the strategy to get us not just experimenting with AI tools, but also talking about ethical issues and questions that were on our minds.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This generation’s children are going to need to be lifelong learners and adapt to changes as technologies move us forward. Education applications Instead of me writing a bunch of words about UDL in action, check out this nine-minute video on UDL in the classroom. UDL at its core is simply good teaching.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about. Watson’s line about truth came from a personal narrative essay about her experience with book bans and curriculum restrictions , which have become critical issues facing educators today. They are meaningful, in and of themselves.”

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JULY 2, 2021

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Observational Research At SOLER we’ve been conducting observational research to get a better sense of the existing habits, understanding and attitudes our students and faculty have about generative AI tools. Much of the discourse about generative AI in higher ed has focused on issues of academic integrity.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2024

Some teachers are curious about how to teach about AI. Maybe this glimpse into the resources and methods I use with my 9th graders (and later in the semester, 8th grade) will give you some ideas. The conversations will inspire and excite you, engage your students in positive uses of AI, and steer them away from the negative.

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ED Surge

APRIL 16, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) I'm actually OK that a lot of the buzz is going somewhere else because I think it helps us to focus not on the shiny object … but on what really matters to us,” says Heiberger, whose university was one of those funded by Meta to make a campus in VR.

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

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JANUARY 5, 2022

million views from visitors, about 10,000 followers who have read some or all of our 2,731 articles on integrating technology into the classroom. It always surprises us what readers find to be the most and least provocative. Talk about humility. An Open Letter to Teachers About Online Classes. K-12 Digital Tools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As educators, we need to be more discerning and discriminating about the use of technology in our classrooms and be willing to admit when the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. Classrooms are filled with excited and happy student voices, but among us teachers, there is still skepticism about edtech that remains.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

While that can be typical, we also want to consider the habits that will help us teach long-term with a high quality of life. Contact us if you find mistakes! And today, Barb, we're going to talk about three ways to have a mindset to be a less stressed educator. So, and I love talking to my own teachers about boundaries.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2024

According to CNBC, the United States has the NSA and FBI preparing to combat deepfakes and misinformation as the US prepares for the 2024 election. The best source of information about the SEC is the SEC. See yesterday's lesson plan about how I start discussing AI. I had them use this tool for several reasons.

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Educators Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Science is all about exploring (and enjoying) the wonders of the world around us. Videos make this exploratory experience even engaging and fun. Through videos science is brought to life.read more.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When Paul LeBlanc began as president of Southern New Hampshire University more than 20 years ago, the institution taught about 2,500 students on its residential campus — and its future looked uncertain. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player on this page.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While ETHS connected us, none of us had ever been in the same room to share and narrate our stories. After dinner, we sat together and reflected on what has kept us all in the classroom, despite the challenges of the education profession. Photo courtesy of Winchester. She shared: “My why is to spread or give love in any way.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

The speed at which generative AI is evolving makes this a critical time for educators and districts to have guidelines about when and how they use it, says Mark Smith, executive director of the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning. “AI AI is everywhere. Smith says. “If

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2023

Being a veteran teacher, telling stories about the past was never something I envisioned for myself, but it is a role I’ve wound up playing. Aging gracefully is difficult for all of us, but as a teacher, it’s been trickier than I expected. When I hear others talk about change now, my reaction to it isn’t the same as it used to be.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Last spring, my university held an emergency faculty meeting about identifying papers written using artificial intelligence. With our lessons on leaning in not far behind us, we knew we had to embrace this new technology. In my classrooms, I encourage some students to use ChatGPT for expediency in brainstorming paper topics.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. EdSurge recently sat down with Paul to dig into her arguments about rethinking how we think, and what educators can learn from the research. The first you talk about is “embodied cognition.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2024

I taught at the preschool level for about three years and eventually made my way to elementary where I stayed for an additional four years. As a result, those of us who did not sink were forced to keep our respective grades afloat. It's not about asking educators of color to shoulder the responsibility of being both teacher and savior.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2024

But the experiment points to interesting possibilities — and raises ethical questions — about how the latest AI tech might be used to improve teaching. AI could afford us a novel way of seeing into something we haven’t seen into before,” says Kyle Bowen, deputy chief information officer at Arizona State University.

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Accelerate Learning

JULY 12, 2023

Technology is all around us, and its capabilities are becoming more and more impressive. It’s important to diversify tech – so let’s unpack what that means, why it’s important, and what we can do about it. The tech industry has a glaring issue: it’s not very diverse.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

One thing we can do to support teachers is make AI accessible in a practical way to educators, [making it as easy as] asking about what's for dinner tonight or how I can plan my vacation. The challenge facing us right now is ensuring that this access gets to everyone without widening that digital divide.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 12, 2023

We are writing ebooks, and the original topic of conversation was how we could use AI to be more creative. But when I realized that many didn't know anything about this tool, we took a trip into my GPT-4 account since they are not old enough to get their own account. Most had never seen it before. or linear algebra?

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2024

And sometimes we realize we were right about something, but the parents — as much as we tried — would not respond to our emails or phone calls. And sometimes, a parent even complains that we are trying too hard, and they just want us to let their child fail and leave them alone. We were just ignored. And it hurt so much.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

And I think that it's really important for us just to be more honest about that because that can make the world a little bit more peaceful if we're all just honest about the fact that we're just not really having it all figured out yet,” she said. With this, it's just about feeling good about what you're sharing with the world.

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All About STEM

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Get the Inside Scoop each month – just join us online for a snappy-session of STEM inspiration!

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Meanwhile, the pandemic has changed views about online education, since by now, just about every professor and student has had some experiences studying online. But some still have concerns about all-online colleges, especially around whether the institutions can verify that the students are doing their own work.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Without us, the local affiliates, there was no source for teacher PD in K-12 mathematics that was run by and for local teachers. While the classrooms in my building have returned to the bustling, lively places they were before 2020, I think many of us are still coming to grips with that experience.

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