ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. 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.

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JULY 21, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

Combined with sobering reports on the persistent lack of strong evidence for edtech , it’s no wonder why the notion of using technology to “fix broken schools” has fallen out of most startup pitch decks and education TED Talks. According to Papert: “The content for human development is always a culture, never an isolated technology.”

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MAY 18, 2023

We recommend you choose a narrow topic and explore free essay examples at StudyDriver.com where you’ll find valuable ideas and techniques for effectively developing your writing style and creating persuasive arguments. Talk about related arguments from your course and use another section to educate readers beyond the course.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s the argument of Kieran Egan, a Canadian philosopher and longtime professor at Simon Fraser University who passed away in 2022. The argument in Egan’s book is hard to summarize, but the thrust is that the way schools teach has become too disconnected from the way young people are wired to learn.

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MAY 2, 2024

The argument against AI-powered tools remains the same: any content produced by artificial intelligence can be viewed as plagiarism. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. 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 26, 2024

It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it. Both educators hope that teaching critical thinking and how to analyze historical events will shift the conversation away from culture war arguments about whether and how to teach controversial topics. “By

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

STEM, an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is an essential component of the educational experience. Science and Technology in the STEM Curriculum Let’s face it. Children are growing up in a society where technology has become a major part of everyday human life.

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MAY 23, 2023

This is part of a series about our LLM technology. And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When students learn to ask deep questions, analyze texts and construct evidence-based arguments, they are equipped with skills that reach far beyond a history classroom. Good history education empowers students to actively engage with the past they study, rather than being passive receivers of historical narratives.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

The technology, which is sometimes called “authorship identification,” helped catch Ted Kaczynski, the terrorist known as the Unabomber for his deadly series of mail bombs, when an analysis of Kaczynski’s 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto was matched to his previous writings to help identify him.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Read on… For more websites that teach civics for MS and HS, check out these: Argument Wars. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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JULY 10, 2023

3 Fun Ways to Use Tech in the Classroom in the Run-Up to Summer Summer is right around the corner and as a teacher, you might be in search of creative ways to leverage technology to ensure your classroom remains an entertaining, engaging and educational space. Fear not, we’ve got you covered!

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

It represents one part of a greater attempt to encourage “responsible” use of this technology by the federal government , including a $140 million investment to create national academies that will focus on AI research, which is inching the country closer to a regulatory framework for AI.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Louis, Maryville University, is embracing that argument in a big way by revamping its curriculum and even changing its business model to include options like a subscription model—with the goal of helping its students get good jobs after graduation. One college in St.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A better understanding of the long arc of technology history might just help us make a course correction, he argues. 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

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. Technology, social media, voting. EdSurge: What’s different about the latest generation of college students in your view?

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MAY 16, 2023

Besides, the paper outline will guarantee that your text follows a logical structure, includes well-supported arguments, and is easy to read. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Hence, it should be informative, concise, and engaging.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8 But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8

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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

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. They would email him essays with evidence to back up their arguments.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

In an argumentative essay, the cause-and-effect lays forth the chain of events that led to the current state of affairs. We are living in times when technologies change education every day. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When you hear your dad's advice that you should finish now, what is your argument back? So my quick argument will always be that there's always another way. What would you say to that argument? Technology is statistically becoming a bigger and bigger part of today's society as we speak.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

There’s a unique opportunity to identify the dangerous side of the “fake it until you make it” argument, as Theranos not only wasted millions of dollars, but put some patients’ health in jeopardy. Unsurprisingly, the highly-publicized plan to deploy Knewton’s technology in service of incarcerated youth never happened.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And they say the key is to use technology to make the approach more convenient and less draining. I think something that's overlooked in a lot of educational systems is your ability to have a discussion and hold an argument about your work,” says Tey. “I can only really do four at a time, and then I need a brain break.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 21, 2023

Logic is the foundation of rational thinking, and by teaching students to analyze arguments, identify fallacies, and draw valid conclusions, we are helping them become more effective critical thinkers. Logic is the foundation of rational thinking, and being able to effectively analyze arguments is a crucial skill.

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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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

. — Molly Castner As educators navigate the responsible use of AI in classrooms, AI tools could give students more opportunities to practice writing than they would have in the absence of such tools, which could lead to more advanced skills in communication and expression, enabling them to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven world.

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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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Educators Technology

JULY 27, 2022

You can also use board games to relax after a stressful day or activity, such as an exam or an argument with your parents! This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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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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JUNE 5, 2015

Very effective: Argument Wars. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of dozens of tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. These are mostly for MS, a mixture of flashcards, games and simulations.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Built for Flexibility The first known course that called itself HyFlex emerged in 2006 , at San Francisco State University, taught by Brian Beatty, a professor of instructional design and technology. The proponents of HyFlex classes are often making a larger argument against the standard lecture model of teaching that is the norm at colleges.

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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. Add to that the difficulty that schools have in policing plagiarism with the increased role of computers and technology in the classroom, and you have a serious problem on your hands.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Throughout this lesson, my students not only learn the content but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze evidence, put together persuasive arguments and respectfully debate their peers.

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JUNE 21, 2017

The Socratic Method requires cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, asking and answering questions that stimulate critical thinking and draw out underlying presumptions. The goal has nothing to do with who wins the argument but how evidence and ideas are presented. The Socratic Method is not passive.

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