ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a crowded marketplace with fierce competition for scarce dollars, savvy entrepreneurs embrace research to inspire, hone and scale their businesses. Join the Catalyst email list to learn about our ongoing, free programming for education innovators. As you conceptualize your business, look for research to ground your concept.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. She signed up. “Me Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education. “But

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Cool Cat Teacher

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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All About STEM

JANUARY 11, 2024

Research Placements & Experiences are fantastic opportunities for Year 12 students to apply knowledge and skills learned at school and work alongside industry professionals. Although a national programme, Research Placements and Experiences are managed by a network of regional coordinators.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 11, 2022

As students and educators head into their third full year of schooling during a pandemic, they’re doing so amid a flurry of conversations happening around support for their mental health. That’s what New York University researcher Richard Welsh tried to glean by looking back at how discipline practices have evolved throughout the pandemic.

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ED Surge

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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All About STEM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Year 12 Nuffield Research Placements and Experiences are open for applications! Nuffield Research Placements & Experiences are a fantastic opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills learned at school and work alongside industry professionals. Nuffield Research Placements (NRPs) are 2-week.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

And plenty of schools and colleges are wondering: Will this new realm work for education? A new study co-authored by one of the world’s most prominent researchers on the effectiveness of edtech, Richard Mayer, offers some answers to that question. The results were promising to those building the metaverse. “The

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. Evans says these students’ eyes light up when they talk about the self-directed learning they’re doing.

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ED Surge

MAY 10, 2022

But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white. To learn more about the research, and about the new approaches they surfaced, we sat down with Smith for this week’s EdSurge Podcast. We have to start all the way back in high school to understand the pipeline challenge.

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All About STEM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Nuffield Research Placements & Experiences are a fantastic opportunity for Year 12 students to apply knowledge and skills learned at school and work alongside industry professionals. Although a national programme, Nuffield Research and Experience Placements are managed by a network of regional coordinators.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That was the approach that Claire Bowen and her team took when organized a week-long series of data science programming back in 2020, when the pandemic first forced students and teachers to hunker down into remote learning. It just showed how much kids wanted to learn about this.” It’s not in our DNA; we have to learn it.

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All About STEM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nuffield Research Placements & Experiences are amazing opportunities for students to apply knowledge and skills learned at school and work alongside industry professionals. Nuffield Research Placements Nuffield Research Placements (NRPs) are 2-week collaborations with a STEM-related knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2023

Student disengagement in writing at the secondary level is a pervasive challenge school districts face nationwide. He engaged in the Advancing Secondary Writing initiative led by Digital Promise’s Center for Inclusive Innovation , recognizing the importance of involving students directly in the research and development (R&D) process.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

When schools were forced to go remote during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it shone a spotlight on inequities that had long plagued education. Those disparities are carrying over into the learning recovery process, according to the results of the School Pulse Panel. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Recently, EdSurge talked with ISTE researchers who managed Teacher Ready, a research-driven project that (1) provides edtech decision-makers with tools to validly and reliably evaluate edtech, and (2) helped expand the ISTE Seal of Alignment certification by integrating user experience and product usability components.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

As he visited school computer labs for one research project, he says, “I found that a lot of the kids, they alt-tab off the education program and start watching YouTube for an hour.” The challenge of having materials that are not good user experiences is they make the learning more difficult,” says Kayla B.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

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. I took my first CS course in grad school, and before that I totally thought I was not a CS person,” he says.

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ED Surge

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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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? Even our pedagogies model this thinking.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

I’ve had to learn a lot, and we’re relying heavily on the great Generative AI Snap! Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. It’s an unusual computing education research paper because we’re making an argument, not offering an empirical study. What was their school like?)

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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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Cool Cat Teacher

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. When I requested to have her evaluated for additional support at school, I was told to give her time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging in research and design work with communities of researchers, practitioners and edtech product developers has led us to define several principles we believe will assist in building learning technology that is attuned to the needs of diverse students and educators, based on modern learning principles and designed for broad adoption and scale.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems. And that's how people learn math. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 27, 2023

Year 12 Nuffield Research Placements are open for applications! Nuffield Research Placements are a fantastic opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills learned at school and work alongside industry professionals.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The number of students who regularly miss school in general has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many districts.

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ED Surge

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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All About STEM

JANUARY 17, 2023

Nuffield Research Placements are engaging, hands-on research projects, where students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation. North West-Specific Information and Application Support.

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ED Surge

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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All About STEM

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Nuffield Research Placements are funded by the Nuffield Foundation and delivered by STEM Learning. They are engaging, hands-on research projects, where students have the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution towards the work of a host organisation.

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