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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

the professor says, “Have I analyzed five forces or only four,” referring to a management theory known as Porter’s Five Forces. The professor admits it’s “corny stuff,” but he says he was inspired by watching other top TikTok influencers, such as the performer Drake. Except, instead of saying “Have I fired six shots or only five today?”

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

UNC’s Learning Center states the case plainly for its students : “Attending office hours, whether in person or online, can give you [the student] valuable time to better understand your class content and your professor’s expectations and can have a big impact on your academic success.”

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JANUARY 25, 2022

There’s a picture that went viral early in the pandemic that became a symbol of how hard emergency remote schooling was for the youngest students. Children's behaviors were worse when they were in remote learning as compared to when they were in other learning formats.”. So what did they find?

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JANUARY 31, 2023

This week, in the last of our three-part series, we hear from professors at other colleges with new approaches to connect with students to increase engagement. One of those professors is Eric Martin, an associate professor in the kinesiology department at California State University at Monterey Bay.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And even though the semester was technically over, I was still receiving requests from students for extensions on their assignments: Hey Professor… Most people hear the title “adjunct professor” and are impressed. And as I learned more about educational inequality, I wanted to help however I could. When I returned to the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu. It’s like math anxiety — they think they can’t do it,” the professor says of some students.

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MAY 19, 2023

Makerspaces in schools are a place where the normal rules of classroom learning are tossed aside in favor of just a couple — have fun, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. As schools continue to grapple with a student mental health crisis , could makerspaces also present an opportunity to support students’ well-being overall?

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MARCH 14, 2022

How do we accelerate learning? The US Department of Education Roadmap for Reopening Safely says that “accelerated learning provides opportunities for students to learn at grade level rather than through tracking or remediation….” Simply put, acceleration “builds on what students know as a way to access new learning.”

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MAY 16, 2023

This post will introduce you to some quick tips for writing a research paper along with the importance of samples. Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Choosing Tech That Grows From Your Schooling Into Your Career Starting a career is an exhilarating journey, and in today’s tech-driven world, the technology you choose during your school years can be a foundational step toward your professional tech arsenal. Thus, choosing tech that scales with your growing needs is essential.

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MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. Then designers should make small improvements based on what they learn, he says, and keep doing that in an iterative way throughout the development process.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I

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MARCH 2, 2022

“Studying student data seems to not at all improve student outcomes in most of the evaluations I’ve seen,” said Heather Hill, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education , at a February 2022 presentation of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, a new nonprofit organization that seeks to improve teaching.

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JUNE 9, 2022

With the growing interest in tech comes a call for summer school programs that supersize student enthusiasm for technology. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer.

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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? Even our pedagogies model this thinking.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Most people focus on its impact on school research, lesson plans–that sort–but another piece isn’t considered often enough: its impact on student mental health. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Generative AI is an exploding influence in education with lots of potential but unknown outcomes.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

NEW YORK — Loyal Harmoni Harris travels every day to Bronx Regional High School, where she learns emotional, motor and language skills. Loyal is a bit younger than the other students at the high school — in fact, she’s only 2 years old. LYFE offers free early childhood education to student parents attending city public schools.

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APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Students will learn to think like scientists.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. So I decided to accommodate the 100th Day fever by wrapping it in learning. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. They love parties.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. If worrying about belonging is powerful enough to be a learning roadblock for students, does that mean that a potential solution is compassion? Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful.

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DECEMBER 12, 2021

Acceleration Research with Dr. Douglas Fisher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Acceleration research can teach us how to accelerate learning. Instead of learning loss, Dr. Instead of learning loss, Dr. Fisher is advocating how we can accelerate learning.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. To find out, last week we gathered a panel of experts at the intersection of brain research and teaching practice to hear their latest thinking for a live taping of the EdSurge Podcast.

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MAY 9, 2024

Here’s an easy-to-read bullet list of what we found: Platform : Android iOS Web Overview: SplashLearn is an innovative online learning platform tailored for PreK through Grade 5 kids. What SplashLearn Offers: Parents: Daily Learning Path: Parents can customize bite-sized daily lessons to fit their child’s schedule.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. Mistakes are valuable.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He said, ‘Mom, do you remember when the shooter came to my school?’” But the second grader had gone through an active-shooter drill at his school, where he was instructed to curl up in a ball on the classroom floor. she recalls. There hadn’t been a shooting. Colleges, too, now routinely hold active-shooter drills.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It’s difficult finding kid-safe research websites that really are. Here’s my list of safe spots to send your students for research. Dimensions –academic research geared for college-level. Library Spot — an extensive collection of kid’s research tools. How to Research.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Before becoming a teacher, I didn’t understand why the 100th day of school was a big deal. So I decided to accommodate the 100th Day fever by wrapping it in learning. Here are thirteen activities I like that blend learning into a celebration of the 100th Day of School: Geography. They love parties.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research?

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APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. And the fact that students learn valuable lessons in the many hours they spend outside of the classroom, too, before school, after school , on the weekends and in the summer.

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JUNE 6, 2023

That’s the surprising argument made by Scott Hershovitz, a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Michigan. EdSurge recently connected with Hershovitz to hear why he thinks it’s important to nurture philosophy in kids throughout school and college, and what advice he has for educators about how to do it. It's a struggle.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT nearly a year ago, teachers have debated whether to ban the tool (over fears that students will use it to cheat ) or embrace it as a teaching aid (arguing that the tool could boost learning and will become key in the workplace). Andrew's Episcopal School in Mississippi, in an essay earlier this year.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And back in September, around 82 percent of Florida school districts closed for at least one day — keeping roughly 2.5 million students out of school. physical threats to schools from weather vary from region to region. It can also disrupt their learning progress — and affect their well-being. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 25, 2023

While all of these schools have been rushing to block ChatGPT , many don’t realize that generative AI tools are making their way into Google Workspaces and Microsoft 365. (If Some questions to ask So, while universities and schools may block ChatGPT, will they remove Office 365 and Google Docs from their suite of tools provided to students?

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