ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of education, truly personalized learning has been nearly impossible to achieve. Classroom teachers, constrained by limited resources and standardized curricula, often struggle to cater to the diverse learning needs of their students. Thanks to the emergence of AI, this is finally possible.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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Middle Web

AUGUST 29, 2023

What teachers do the first weeks of school has a dramatic effect on student engagement and achievement the rest of the year. Building a classroom culture of learning and questioning – co-created with students – paves the road to success. Jackie Walsh and colleagues show us how.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” As our new normal continues on and we begin 2023, I’m reflecting on what my students and I lost in 2022—and what we’ve gained. Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Motivation is not only important in its own right; it is also an important predictor of learning and achievement. Students who are more motivated to learn persist longer, produce higher quality effort, learn more deeply, and perform better in classes and on standardized tests. Willian Glasser’s 5 Basic Needs.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

One of my rituals at the start of each school year is to clean student desks and chairs. Year after year, before students arrive for their first day of school, I scrub and shine these desks. Profanity from past students lives on in the rubber sidings of these desks. But this year, it actually happened!

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 8, 2023

Communicating with computers is fun, engaging and thrilling, and it also has a powerful effect on kids’ futures. Coding boosts academic achievement while simultaneously embedding life-long skills in learners. Elementary-aged learners are capable of providing computers with instructions to achieve a specific outcome through code!

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Last year, when Micah Hill was a sophomore in high school, her guidance counselor gave her an application for Mississippi’s student representative program, which allows students to serve on the Mississippi State Board of Education. Hill applied and after two interviews, she was selected as the state’s newest student rep.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

AI tutors, virtual assistants, and adaptive learning platforms are being adopted by schools, colleges, and universities around the world. In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. This promotes better student engagement and accelerated learning.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, as of 2023, the effectiveness of high-dose tutoring has gradually declined due to low student participation rates and skepticism from education authorities regarding the actual educational impact of online high-dose tutoring. Some school districts have opted for in-person high-dose tutoring.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The start of a new school year is always busy. New students, new parents, new rules at school–but there’s one more piece that shakes up my education ecosystem: new webtools. What makes this program stand out from the crowd is the fun and engaging way it builds student’s assessment proficiency.

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The Maker Mom

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The benefits of online schools for gifted students are worth considering for those outpacing their classmates in traditional schools. Students can access classes they wouldn’t be able to otherwise in a traditional school setting and satisfy their intellectual cravings.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

How do you create one in your class or school? Whether the symptoms are apparent or not, these disabilities can affect their cognitive and learning processes. As such, students with disabilities typically struggle with vision or hearing impairments, attention issues, organization problems, and difficulty recognizing words.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The platform focuses on student growth and learning rather than state or international standards (it does meet them–just don’t look for that in the detail). The purpose of its videos, hands-on projects, and more is to spark student creativity, empower them to explore their own passions at their own pace.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

The goal of inclusive education is to ensure that every student, regardless of their background or abilities, has an equal opportunity to learn and succeed. UDL provides a framework for designing and delivering lessons that address the diverse needs of all learners, including those with disabilities and other learning challenges.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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Defined Learning

APRIL 5, 2022

Spring presents a great time to explore new ideas or try some new tools, especially as we look to boost student engagement with the content and keep up the momentum. Offering more choices helps us to better meet specific student interests and needs while also preparing them for the careers of the future.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools.

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Magic EdTech

AUGUST 18, 2022

Educators hardly need evidence that games are immensely attractive for school-age children. The challenge here is to channel the excitement and engagement of games towards academic goals. Like a midday espresso shot for adults, gamification facilitates increased learning and content retention in K-12 students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Not only do teachers earn less than other professionals, but in most school districts their salary increases are not dependent on performance. There are three main ways that teacher pay impacts student outcomes, García says.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting." It gives them an opportunity to become active participants and take ownership of their learning.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. I used a game to teach my students about the causes behind the start of the First World War. For example, Nardolilli says, “I’ve noticed that my students make fewer mistakes in identifying angles now.”

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CTE Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum at the middle school and high school levels has emerged as a transformative force. Every educator and parent knows how science and contextual learning excite students.

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CTE Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum at the middle school and high school levels has emerged as a transformative force. Every educator and parent knows how science and contextual learning excite students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. hours before the pandemic.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Kids are learning – but for way too many it occurs outside of the school environment rather than during school. We are asking today’s students to spend so much of their school lives doing tasks that are unconnected to the the skills that need now and in their future lives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. Institutions cannot achieve the goal without incorporating technology-based learning into the programs themselves.”. The student today learns much differently than students did five years ago.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. In addition, being able to learn from — and form friendships with — colleagues has been rewarding.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

However, our professional accreditation requirements are still on track and need to be renewed, as we have to learn and up our abilities for the fall. Many of the topics below were part of that conversation, including Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Social-Emotional Learning. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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Teach Hub

MAY 9, 2024

Poor grades often signal an underlying issue that may go beyond the student’s understanding of the material, such as an external stressor or lack of motivation. It can also signal something more like a learning disability. Once you’ve found the underlined issue, then you can develop strategies to support the student.

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STEM Sport

JUNE 6, 2023

In the constantly evolving education landscape, educators need to design effective STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curricula that engage and inspire their middle school students. One powerful tool that can help achieve this is a STEM curriculum map.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

The end of the school year is a time when both students and teachers alike are distracted by thoughts of vacation, sleeping in, and no deadlines. Many of these, educators would love to teach but “just don’t have time for “, even though they align well with broad goals of preparing students for college and career.

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STEM Sport

MAY 9, 2023

To achieve this, schools have recognized the need to incorporate STEM education into their curricula, starting from preschool and continuing all the way through high school. This is crucial for student success. The Benefits of a School-Wide STEM Focus Creating a school-wide STEM focus has many benefits to student success.

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CoderZ

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Videogames have captivated the world for decades, and when it comes to those who play, it has been a unique motivator to learn and persevere. The allure of virtual worlds, action-packed challenges, and immersive experiences has redefined how we approach teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors. But eventually, they get it. “[The

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Benefit #1: Support experiential and collaborative learning. Implementing VR in the classroom helps support experiential and collaborative learning. Especially with STEM subjects, students benefit from working alongside their classmates to improve their 21st-century skills, such as leadership.

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