ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A few years ago, it seemed like social-emotional learning was rocketing into the mainstream. Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

We wondered about the role of AI in one specific teaching practice: assessing student learning. We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts. Figure 1: Teacher v.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

A Sparring Partner in Forging an Argument A third use case for an AI chatbot is as a “naysayer” or “critic” — not necessarily a role that a university explicitly employs like tutors or editors. Oftentimes, when writing or describing or designing, it helps to hear feedback, especially when there is argumentation involved.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2023

Let’s get our learning hats on and explore the exciting landscape of teaching critical thinking through essay examples! Transforming Analysis into Action: Elevating Learning But hold your horses. How does this argument hold up under scrutiny?” You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Why Essays?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Typically, civics is synonymous with learning about overtly political topics such as government structure and voting, but what if good citizenship goes beyond our nation’s history and political processes? To reach every student in the U.S., we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2023

It is worse for distance learning since no one is around to offer guidance. But even the pros and cons of remote learning are intertwined. Talk about related arguments from your course and use another section to educate readers beyond the course. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And if we are serious about student well-being, we must change the systems they learn in. While it’s likely that homework completion signals student engagement, which in turn leads to academic achievement, there’s little evidence to suggest that homework itself improves engagement in learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2024

Kaufer adds that novice writers often shift too early in the writing process into making fragments of ideas they put down into carefully crafted sentences, when they might just end up later deleting those sentences because the ideas may not fit into their final argument or essay. Kaufer is sympathetic to that argument.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

One reason for that, he argues, is that it’s easier to measure how much students are learning in math and science by using standardized tests that can be quickly graded by machines. It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2023

You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Here are popular online resources to teach about Civics and Government.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. I’d say it’s technocentrism , a concept introduced by Seymour Papert, renowned mathematician, learning theorist and edtech pioneer. So what is this philosophy? Papert diagnosed this issue back in 1987.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2024

The argument against AI-powered tools remains the same: any content produced by artificial intelligence can be viewed as plagiarism. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. This is the same concern that has been posed about essay writing services and the people who use them.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

As with all emerging technologies, it is critical to understand how we relate to these technologies in order to best leverage them for student learning. It is critical to understand how we relate to these technologies in order to best leverage them for student learning. argument coherence) for teachers.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2022

As a sign of his fanaticism around helping people think critically, he wrote about how to help people better discern political arguments as voters and how we might improve the level of discourse in our country. At Jonathan’s funeral, the rabbi shared that Jonathan’s sons, Eli and Benjamin, had learned to ably debate their father.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It also enables the school to focus on providing tailored social-emotional learning. On a phone call with EdSurge, Monarch School’s CEO said that social-emotional learning was the school’s priority. Critics don’t buy the argument about stigma, either.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2018

Here’s a fascinating article by Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, James Lovelock, discussing the balance between rote drills and integrated learning in teaching keyboarding: As a pre-service teacher, I have always found the arguments around different forms of teaching and learning to be highly frustrating.

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National Science Foundation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

While our work centers on Black teachers, we have learned from fellow researchers and educators that much of what we will share in this blog resonates with other teachers of color as well (see Kohli, 2016). A leading argument for bringing more STEM teachers into the field is rooted in commodification. The Diversity Imperative.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. As teachers, it’s important we reinforce the concept that learning has many faces. Some won’t, but those who do will learn much more by the process. Everyone has them.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But what if those typical metaphors for our brains are limiting our capacities to think and learn? Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

History in 2021 grades every state on their civics and history standards that guide teaching and learning in these content areas. Read on… For more websites that teach civics for MS and HS, check out these: Argument Wars. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Civics games. How Laws are Made.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. As a result, my students were only completing them for a grade, and had lost sight of why they’re learning any of this at all.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 3, 2022

There is a lot to learn here as well. The argument for Python is multiple. I am finding the arguments for Python more convincing than I expected. Davina Pruitt-Mentle introduced NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION (NICE) which has a lot of resources for teaching and learning about cybersecurity.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

It's a time when we learn to communicate. It's a time when we can learn to collaborate, which means dealing with the conflict that relationships with people and collaborating can bring. It's a time when we can learn to collaborate, which means dealing with the conflict that relationships with people and collaborating can bring.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

While this approach may work with students who are intrinsically motivated to learn history, it's difficult to get through topics like the Pan-Slavic movement in the mid-19th century with uninterested 14-year-olds. It gives them an opportunity to become active participants and take ownership of their learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Some critics of the idea have noted that a student’s writing should change as they learn, and therefore the fingerprint based on an earlier writing sample might no longer be accurate. And it turned out his mom wrote it for him, more or less. And so in this case it wasn’t AI, but the truth was just that he didn't write it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Elementary School – Interactive Learning Apps Picture your elementary school classroom filled with excited young learners, their eyes glued to their screens as they explore new ideas and grasp essential skills through educational apps. Let’s dive in!

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

To do that, he uses depolarization strategies, like “looping,” or having each person repeat back the other’s argument in their own words and ask whether they are hearing the other side accurately. And we hadn't even begun focusing on teaching and learning, it was just repairing relationships. They were on one side or another.

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Chillax Science

JANUARY 11, 2023

Children, in most preschools, are afforded unique opportunities to learn in relaxed and fun ways. Science learning can specifically benefit from this relaxed environment and as teachers we can tap into this particular environment. Helps children learn conversational skills. Fosters curiosity. Helps support the value of data.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Largely, the hope expressed by observers is that AI tools will finally deliver on personalized learning and, ultimately, increase equity. But whether this works, the department argues, will largely depend on whether the tech is used to empower — or burden — the humans who facilitate learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Research suggests that when exposed to a learning environment that prioritizes the well-being of the whole child, not just their academic performance, students become more confident, optimistic and perceptive. I haven’t seen one of them incorporate self-love as a prioritized outcome.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2023

Teaching Methods and Learning Tools Learning environment in the classroom can influence perception and comprehension on many levels. In an argumentative essay, the cause-and-effect lays forth the chain of events that led to the current state of affairs. Learning from other authors’ experiences is always beneficial.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s the argument made by Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who has been writing and speaking about the issue in recent months. I've mentioned that in speeches to students. I don't think we're quite there yet, but we're working on it.

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Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

How machine learning is revolutionising materials science Published: Research in materials science and engineering is crucial for developing materials that can help solve some of society’s biggest challenges.

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Vivify Stem

JULY 12, 2023

Science debates breathe life into scientific concepts, transforming the learning experience into a dynamic arena of ideas and exploration. Why Scientific Argumentation? Scientific argumentation holds a crucial place in the science classroom!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2022

Did My Students Learn? So, what did I notice about learning? Students learned a lot, and they improved significantly during the semester. They learn about the subtleties of mathematical argument by presenting to each other in class. The grades got out of the way and let us learn. But What About Grades?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

He even takes the argument a step further when he complains that Twitter itself has become a kind of game for talking about current events and politics, rather than a genuine public sphere.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

That vantage point gives her insight about what’s keeping students from feeling fully invested in showing up for class ready to truly participate in the learning process. Do they count that as part of a grade or is it more like if you choose not to show up, you're not going to learn? Do you find that professors take attendance?

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