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APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Too many young people have school experiences that leave them disengaged and ill-prepared for the future. In today’s system, there are limited opportunities for students’ interests, experiences, hopes, cultures and perspectives to be a part of their education.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Today, as education leaders, you’re faced with an increasingly diverse student population, each with unique learning styles, abilities, and aspirations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2023

From the Ask a Tech Teacher crew, here’s a topical article on how to use AI in your education journey: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education Technological innovation is now casting its shadows over the education sector as well, making learning experiences better than ever before.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2023

For some, it’s the wow factor of using something novel or exciting; for others, it’s the allure of seeing their students highly engaged with new technologies. Before jumping into using a particular tool, I’d recommend taking a step back to develop a plan with a defined purpose that aligns with what your students need.

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MARCH 1, 2024

I was a 20-year-old college student with a bright future. After I graduated, fueled by my personal experience as a student, I decided to pursue a career in education. Today, I’m a doctoral candidate in the education leadership program at Rowan University, with a focus on students with disabilities.

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APRIL 12, 2023

I rarely see authentic or endearing stories in the media that show the impact teachers and students have on each other. After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. History class.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The 21st-century classroom is a dynamic, ever-evolving space where cutting-edge technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), are pushing us all to rethink what students need to learn and how that learning can best be structured to prepare them for the future. Understand the value of creativity.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I was angry that the mayor and district leaders were gambling with the health of students and my fellow teachers and leaders. I also expected the news outlets to widely criticize the powers that be for the lack of consideration for the safety of our teachers and students. How were these decisions even being made?

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. A key reason that attacks on the value of college have resonated with so many people, the panelists noted, is that many parents of traditional-college-aged students had failed attempts with higher ed themselves.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

When added to the other issues — low pay, long hours and the increase in students’ social-emotional issues coming back from the pandemic — it makes the job just that much harder, he argues. When teaching about the Holocaust, including graphic depictions of its horrors, one student kept laughing. That can make an exit more attractive.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

In turn, this analysis helps educators make informed choices that directly affect student learning and school effectiveness. With over 10 years of experience in district-level administrative roles focusing on curriculum, instruction and assessment, she has extensive expertise in building and refining database decision-making systems.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

As we navigate the roadmap drawn by COVID-19, we know there will continue to be accelerated digital transformation and rapid innovation of education intended to positively impact student outcomes in 2022. To help early stage edtechs entering the market navigate this unique point in history, we have developed the 2022 EdTech Startup Guide.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we welcome Billy Krakower, a nationally recognized educator with 16 years of experience and a passion for bringing technology and creativity into the classroom. Currently teaching STEM at the Middle School level in North New Jersey.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. What’s a ‘Good’ Amount of Planning Time? Not likely.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2024

For Maria Artica, a first-year student at Richard Bland College, a two-year college in Virginia, enrolling was like stepping “into a new world.” A first-generation college student, she was told that higher ed would lead to a better life. While she had no experience with financial aid forms, she was able to figure it out last year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Tech industry has been working solidly for the last decade or so and promises the best careers to students. Our Ask a Tech Teacher contributor has a short list of professions that students can look forward to: The Future of the Tech Industry: What Professions Should Students Look Into? UX designers certainly think so.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

It can save teachers time by automating tasks , while also causing headaches as an accomplice to cheating students. Protecting Student Data School principals want to know how AI can be used in the classroom beyond having students copy and paste from it, Paul Liabenow says, and are of course concerned about students using it to cheat.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators constantly seek new ways to engage our students and enhance their learning experiences. This project I designed for students to show their mastery of spreadsheets. While I’ve traveled, there are many places I have not gone to.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Upon the release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, we noticed that some of our students had suddenly become “experts” at synthesizing research and organizing their term papers, often resulting in perfect scores on their written assignments. It worked out perfectly!

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

McGrath’s background as a former budget manager and director in both for-profit and not-for-profit higher education and experience in financial and operational planning consulting across various industries positions him well to support higher ed institutions as they address planning challenges. “We

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2023

Now that emergency health measures have been lifted, Smith, who is currently a junior, does participate on campus in the life of the historically Black university. And the contrast between her remote and in-person experiences has given her insight about which components of college work in each modality. But college courses?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As students move into middle and high school , it becomes increasingly challenging for them to maintain excitement and enthusiasm for subjects like math and science. Employing innovative strategies to reignite students’ interest is essential to address this challenge.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I used a game to teach my students about the causes behind the start of the First World War. A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2024

If you’ve decided that you prefer the officer path to the enlisted, here are your options: Military Academy High school students with excellent credentials have an opportunity to apply to any of the US military academies–the Naval Academy, West Point, Air Force Academy or Coast Guard Academy.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Even as some current teachers are leaving the education workforce—or, at the very least, considering it —plenty of would-be teachers are opting for other career paths, creating a worrisome landscape where there are neither enough teachers right now, nor expectations to recover the dearth in the future. Across the state, more needs to be done.”

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

What if students could earn work experience, wages and university credits at the same time? Colleges have already come up with a model for this by offering work-based courses , which pair students with businesses and other organizations to solve real-world problems. Sounds too good to be true? Not really.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

Today’s high school graduates are increasingly questioning whether higher education is worth it, and that’s pushing colleges to rethink the value they bring students. This was a key theme I heard at last week’s SXSW EDU conference, where several panels addressed what today’s generation of students want, and how colleges can respond.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

Current research is limited to estimates of the number of children and adolescents who use various social media platforms and for how long. Media Literacy Education Many students start using social media when they’re in elementary school, Reich says, before they’re typically presented with school-based education on digital media literacy.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system. This statistic is exacerbated by an inverse representation of students — 23% Native Hawaiian and 9% Japanese.

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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. In short, UDL is a launching point for providing personalized learning experiences. Teachers should provide options for how students experience the content.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

Two current efforts designed by academics for use in teaching draw on extended reality tools that invite users to actively participate in scenes from works like “Romeo and Juliet.” Both offer experiences that may best be described as “Shakespeare karaoke.” Play the Knave, however, is designed for students to experience collectively.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

We discussed the possibility of allowing low-income students to use federal Pell Grants to pay for short workforce-training programs. According to the Community College Research Center , federal Pell Grants currently can only be used for programs totaling at least 600 hours over 15 weeks. The proposal would increase U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

And the way we’re going to do that is by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor.” Khan Academy has been one of the first organizations to use ChatGPT to try to develop such a tutor, which it calls Khanmigo, that is currently in a pilot phase in a series of schools. They’re tools.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2023

Imagine you are a prospective first-generation college student , seeking to attend an institution of higher education in efforts to obtain economic mobility. Centering Students Pedagogically, educators are taught to plan, teach, and assess learning around the needs and abilities of students. It is time to stop this foolishness.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Picture a classroom full of students chatting about last night’s homework, volleyball practice or their favorite YouTuber’s latest release. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chu about how a metaverse application benefits both teachers and students. Teachers can divide students into discussion groups. Do the dynamics change?

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