ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Leaders like Du Bois and Love have shaped my belief that I can lead a school where students love themselves and succeed academically. This is a dilemma.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers—with the vast majority of schools still organized as one teacher for every 15 to 35 students—mediate students’ classroom experiences in myriad ways. In essence, teachers sought a logical flow in the way students organized their arguments. Is the evidence reliable? Is it relevant? If yes, [students] also have to explain it.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I recently asked a teacher friend how the school year was going. This apprehensive optimism and continued fear is something I hear regularly from school staff in my work with schools and districts across the U.S. School-based staff expressed feeling stressed, stretched, afraid and overwhelmed.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

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. The AI is trying to fix the writing process and the format—fix what is already there, not trying to understand what they intended to say."

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

But it turns out that plenty of schools make it hard for teens to get the amount of sleep that doctors recommend. This has led to heated debates in recent years over school start times. morning bell at school, there's no way they can be getting the eight to 10 hours of sleep that they need. I have two kids.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

AI writing helpers’ real-time feedback on grammar, vocabulary, coherence, and argument structure is their crucial draw. However, when leveraging such tools for school assignments, it’s crucial to ensure the work remains authentic because teachers always check AI% in Turnitin or other detectors.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. This year, in Indiana, sixth graders will take an inaugural civics course in the spring semester.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I had just received a notice from my school about the push for teachers and leaders to return to school for in-person learning. What would I do with my children that are on different schedules and attend schools in different neighborhoods? Decisions and policies are often made without the input of teachers and school leaders.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

History is supposed to guide us toward a better future; at least, that’s the argument for Anya Kamanetz’s new book " The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now." The implicit argument of "The Stolen Year" is that the problems facing education are not actually about COVID. We certainly need a better future!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2019

They feel no guilt, don’t understand the legal risk they face, and think the argument that “everyone does it” makes it OK. I was excited when Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Milyn Anne, offered this article explaining the why behind plagiarizing: What Factors Influence Your Tendency to Plagiarize in School?

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

Are schools too quick to turn student disturbances into criminal matters? Schools around the country have been wrestling with that issue in recent years, including whether to have police in schools , and if so, when to use them. A law in South Carolina long held that a student can be arrested for “disturbing” school.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

He’s an English teacher at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, and he also writes a newsletter about the issues AI raises in education. I understand that there was recently a time at your school when this approach came in handy. For example, [many schools] have cameras in the hallways. Can you share that?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. They must connect to opponent’s arguments.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

One big theme in education-innovation circles is that the professional world is changing faster than ever, and so schools and colleges must adjust how they teach to meet those needs. One college in St.

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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. This way of thinking about technology has been core to many pitches made by edtech providers to schools and, I’d argue, it has outsized influence on how most of us think about edtech.

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MAY 16, 2016

With the growing interest in coding comes a call for after school tech camps that supersize student enthusiasm for learning technology. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. provide a concluding statement that follows from argument presented. Educational links. write the book.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

The civil rights folks liked the idea that legacy preferences were there to the extent that they could make an argument that, ‘Listen, there are all sorts of preferences in college admissions,’ and so race should be allowed as one of those factors.” But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2022

More recently, I had connected Jonathan to a friend and coauthor of mine on the paper “ Disrupting Law School ,” Villanova Law Professor Michele Pistone, to help her with the instructional design for the online program she has now launched around immigration training for advocates.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Buckle up and join us on this delightful journey through tech-savvy classrooms – from elementary school to high school – we’ll unlock a treasury of innovative ideas guaranteed to amuse the young minds while also preparing them for their future. Let’s dive in!

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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. We look at things like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. That's amazing. What does a college need to do differently for this generation?

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

To explore this relationship, we interviewed 27 middle school writing teachers nationwide and looked at their teaching materials and student work. argument coherence) for teachers. We wanted to understand better the relationship between teachers and the AI employed by the automated writing evaluation tool.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As the son of Indian immigrants, I looked for ways to push back against the pressure to assimilate and conform while growing up in white schools. I sense this same feeling of difference in a student who recently transferred to my school from a predominantly Black school in Milwaukee.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. As a result, an increasing number of schools are making micro-credentials a fundamental piece in their professional development plan. . public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs). Not anymore.

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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." Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how social studies is perceived.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 3, 2022

The argument for Python is multiple. FWIW, the school I retired from added Python in part because the Physics teachers encouraged it. I am finding the arguments for Python more convincing than I expected. The current course results in students who do very well in CS2 and that is important.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The father, Paul Carr, is 47, and he’s pushing to finish a college degree he started right after high school but stopped pursuing when he found out his then-girlfriend was pregnant with their first child. And there's no way that they can know coming out of high school what that really looks like. What would you say to that argument?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

How do you create one in your class or school? million students with disabilities for the school year 2021 to 2022. Among the services they provide is guidance on assistive technology in schools. They can also clearly present their thoughts, arguments, and understanding of the lectures because they express themselves better.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

It’s the end of school. Students will be buzzing with all the new material and eager to use it for summer school or the next year. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. Designed for middle and high school, but adaptable to other grades. Change your approach.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 18, 2023

Our school loves soccer, so we wanted a soccer theme. Comparison of Two Forms of Essays I won't include the full essays, but next, she wanted to help students understand the difference between a persuasive essay and an argumentative essay that used text support. We found some great ones. I wanted to establish the theme.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Now, imagine this in a virtual school environment with everyone online. At the same time, they might hear a group getting into an argument across the other side of the room, and they can virtually walk to that group and mediate. Do the dynamics change? Teachers can divide students into discussion groups. It's really not about that.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. It seems like there's a lot of common sense to this argument that is very accessible to a non-philosopher. It's some value of solidarity.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2022

Which schools deserve to top lists of the best colleges in the U.S.? That’s the argument made by researchers at the think tank Third Way, who developed a new way to rank the nation’s colleges. Meanwhile, she adds, the top 10 schools based on the economic mobility index enroll nearly 100,000 Pell recipients.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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. We can't be anything but embodied creatures, even as adults. And then the third is this social piece.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

It’s the end of school. Students will be buzzing with all the new material and eager to use it for summer school or the next year. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. Designed for middle and high school, but adaptable to other grades. Designed for grades 3-12.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

Memories of that moment eventually led her to go back to school for social work, and later to go work on national efforts to help students prepare for the workforce. So not only are they learning and getting through content, but mental health challenges are going to show up while they're in school and during a school year or a semester.

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