ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For English Language Arts (ELA) teachers, AI-powered writing tools help to provide immediate feedback, guiding students through the writing process and fostering a more personalized approach to learning. So, introducing AI was relatively easy because my students were used to the writing process and going through revisions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s about building lifelong friendships, networking, developing social skills, and discovering who you are outside of the classroom. This is where online resources tailored to academic writing help become invaluable. Balancing academics and social life in college is a bigger challenge than it sounds like.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The skills and practices necessary to engage with AI are relevant to all disciplines. What Is AI Literacy?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a classroom teacher, I always tried to improve my practice by reading academic and practice-based articles, attending trainings and connecting with fellow educators to share resources and troubleshoot challenges. On the contrary, teachers want professional learning that is practical, engaging and relevant. I love learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We write about back to school often on Ask a Tech Teacher. 6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers. How to Build Your PLN. How to Build Your PLN. Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to. BTS resources. BTS resources from Microsoft. Make a class photo in Pixton EDU. New School Year? I Got You Covered.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Learning a second language is a challenge, whether it be English, Russian, or any of the hundreds of world languages we find across the globe. You may need to do this because you’ve moved to a new country, because your job changed, or it’s a personal interest. The question becomes: How to make that happen? Do you immerse yourself?

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

She believes contributing factors may include a lack of ‘academic stamina’ among today’s students, changing parenting practices and inadequate explanations from faculty about why showing up actually matters. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children regularly miss elementary, middle and high school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Build Empathy Among Students. Practices of Tech-savvy Teachers. How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving. Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in January: Public Domain Day. Subscriber Special and MLK Day. 10 Hits and 10 Misses for 2021. 10 Top Reviews for 2021. Free Posters.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

Years ago, I took the lead in writing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy for my school site, which was later adopted by my district. Four to six hours in front of a computer for instruction. Unaccounted time for social media and gaming usage. Sounds like too much screen time? Some parents are beginning to see the fatigue in their children.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Nothing happens without their decision–not surroundings or characters or buildings rising or holes being dug. It’ll start with a plot of land and students will write the story, cast the characters, create the entire 1776 world. This follows Common Sense Media’s seal of approval. Let me back up a moment.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Election season tends to bring big, divisive issues into school buildings and classrooms. Constructive dialogue is a form of conversation in which people who have different values, beliefs and perspectives seek to build new ways to understand and interact with each other, even as they sustain commitments to their own stances.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. It’s a practice he started at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many students were in quarantine and needed ways to continue learning remotely.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. sharing digitally to build knowledge.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The CII focuses on investing in R&D capacity-building to enable educators, students and families to create solutions with researchers and developers to sustain the work. To be clear, community-based organizations have led proximity-centered efforts to transform education for many years.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

They might think that they're there for a writing program or a poetry program, or they haven't maybe heard of The Moth. And we start by really getting to know people, building trust, building community, and then we start playing games and eating snacks and sharing very low-stakes truths about ourselves.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Two criteria are mentioned over and over in keyboarding research: Keyboarding instruction is most effective when spread out over several years and designed to build on the student’s prior knowledge. Keyboarding is a topic that most parents want their children to learn and many schools don’t have time to teach. Week 2 (this article).

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Click Here for the Webinar Sponsor This week's guest Justin is an associate professor of digital media in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab. We dive deep into teachers' crucial role in driving innovation and improvement in education. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

My ninth-grade app builders are more rapidly iterating and creating their app pages, not because AI is writing anything for them but quite the opposite. My ninth-grade app builders are more rapidly iterating and creating their app pages, not because AI is writing anything for them but quite the opposite.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

With High School graduation close, college on the horizon, one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors put together a list of great tips and ideas to help you prepare for one of the biggest steps you can take to build your future: How to Prepare for College College preparation is crucial to ensuring that your college life is successful.

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ED Surge

APRIL 28, 2023

Extensive research suggests that practicing self-compassion is a vital strategy for educators to support and strengthen their mental health. A common way to practice self-compassion is to consider how you would treat a good friend in the situation you’re experiencing, and then extend that same kindness and care to yourself.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Young people from organizations across the city came together to learn about community organizing, build community and develop a city-wide education justice campaign. How can teachers learn from the practices and principles of youth organizing to create more humanizing, engaging and empowering classrooms?

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Teach Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

However, with a little practice and strategic encouragement, you can improve your student’s handwriting skills making them more legible. However, with a little practice and strategic encouragement, you can improve your student’s handwriting skills making them more legible. Daily Practice Handwriting improves with practice.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Opportunity-centered teaching is the practice of considering relationships, community building, identity development and student well-being as bedrock foundations for rigorous academic learning. What actions distinguish teachers who are especially effective with our most vulnerable students?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

For our school, that includes a shift from a punishment-driven model to restorative practice-driven approaches to managing student discipline, part of a nationwide trend as schools work to improve culture and climate. There was no emotion on the eighth grader’s face. No anger, no sadness, no frustration. Can you start from the beginning?

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

For years, I’ve worked with young people during one of the most significant transitions of their lives. Some can’t wait to leave, others get nostalgic, and some feel paralyzed, unable to make plans for what they want to do next. Of all the demands placed on seniors, meeting graduation requirements is an acute source of stress.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 7, 2024

He gives suggestions for schools that help them frame school behavior and understand students' dreams, needs and abilities in a way we can put into our classroom practice. Tom also emphasizes the need to recognize and support the many and various backgrounds of our students and the need to build trust over time.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 19, 2023

My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. Welcome to an extended episode focusing on AI!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 7, 2022

James Clear describes the four components of our established patterns in “ Atomic Habits: An Easy, Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.” Building up a habit like the one I have done for exercise involves both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for most people. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

The most rewarding part has been to get to know the kids on a more personal level, whether by incorporating occasional community-building activities in the classroom, or through the privilege of being their coach outside of the classroom. Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education. I spent the first 3.5

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Teaching Algebra Schooling Math 261

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! In our increasingly digital world, educators recognize the significance of integrating AI tools in the classroom. AI integration can address diverse learning needs , promote data-driven decision-making , and spur class discussion.

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

Gen Zers, born between 1997 and 2012, spend a lot of time online, consuming and creating digital content. Ninety-two percent check social media daily. With Gen Z now making up a substantial portion of today’s college students, their attitudes toward libraries have implications for higher education. They might be coming in for coffee.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Learning about what makes Generation Alpha so unique has helped me understand how we might shift our practices accordingly to lean into the strengths of this generation. On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 15, 2022

I can quickly add review materials, create quick practice problems and work, and give students a way to practice without me. Or, after class, if students need more practice (like with my exam), I can assign it with a click so they can practice ahead of time. Lumio has become my go-to exam review tool. Let’s dive in.

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