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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

169 tech-centric situations—tech topics most important to your teaching as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations Today’s tip: Evaluate websites Category: Parents When students use the internet to research a topic, likely they get hundreds—or thousands—of possible resources.

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APRIL 3, 2024

That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border. Researchers point out that the inequities they uncover in the report are not unavoidable. It’s time to draw the line.”

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Create a list of five research questions to guide inquiry including where to find the answers. Enjoy the research. When done, create a presentation that will share research and conclusions with classmates. On Project Presentation Day, present research and take audience questions. These will be approved by the teacher.

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APRIL 4, 2025

Students can use Google Earth to take a virtual tour of a zoo or a blog to collaborate on class research. Today, education can be found anywhere, by teaming up with students in Kenya or Skyping with an author in Sweden or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Research skills promote inquiry and curiosity in students. Encouraging research and inquiry through dedicated projects like Genius Hour fosters a sense of ownership in learning, allowing students to pursue their interests and develop critical thinking skills. Keyboarding skills are essential for students in a technology-driven world.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

46 lessons. 46 projects.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners have shown up lacking some of the basic skills and competencies that educators and school leaders had previously come to expect.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new book by one of those AI pioneers digs into the origins of ChatGPT and the intersection of research on how the brain works and building new large language models for AI. Listen to our conversation with Sejnowski on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, where he describes research to more fully simulate human brains.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

11, she unearths troves of research and threads together narratives from around the globe to back up an idea that she has long known to be true in her own life. She has these dual researcher and practitioner hats. Many researchers have looked at the intersection of play and the number of friendships, and there is a clear connection.

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APRIL 11, 2025

The six strands include digital citizenship, keyboarding skills, problem-solving, research skills, vocabulary expansion, and publishing and sharing. She emphasizes safe and effective research tactics, urging students to critically evaluate sources.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. But the researcher says he has heard from hundreds of teachers who have reported improvements in test scores. How did that go? Can we get more students thinking?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Jennifer also reflects on where the research is “fuzzy” in reading instruction needs more work and discusses where we go next (including the challenges of teaching children with changing attention spans). Emerging Research Areas: What’s next in reading comprehension, engagement, and the role of executive functioning in literacy?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its an approach some researchers think is too often missing from the classroom. Even among researchers, this can cause bulimic partisan commitments to one or the other, he adds. Its unfortunate, because research has shown that they are deeply connected, Clements says. But whats meant by play? I mean, its fun!

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JANUARY 7, 2025

We have regular features like: Weekly Websites and Tech Tips ( sign up for the newsletter ) Edtech Reviews Lesson plans If you’ve just arrived at Ask a Tech Teacher, start here.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

But in essays, research papers, and reports, you need a strong command of the language. Meanwhile, free courses guide students on everything, from sentence structuring to common vocabulary used in research papers. Ivory Research is an online platform for educators and academic consultants who will make a structure for your paper.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For the researchers, that means that absenteeism threatens to aggravate the teacher shortage. Previous research from one of the authors has tried to show that missing class can negatively impact what teachers think about absent students, leading them to view those students as lacking social skills and being less academically capable.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

And she would often designate a student as a researcher during lessons who could look up related material online and share with the group. A new survey by the Pew Research Center found that about 7 in 10 Americans support cellphone bans during class, while only about a third favor an all-day ban.

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MARCH 20, 2025

One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. Instead, families tend to rely on recommendations from friends and neighbors, researchers say. Some are skeptical of past research on the politically charged topic of voucher programs.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We learn from a research about advice on returning to school after a natural disaster and other advice from child psychologists. But whether you listen to this in 2024 or any other time, this episode is designed to help us be able to help the most vulnerable among us: our children, as we work through these issues and the times.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Research shows that approximately 1.27 Connie Juel conducted research years ago that found that if children are not proficient readers by the end of first grade, there is an 88 percent chance theyll remain poor readers by the end of fourth grade. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

No longer do they complete their research on projects solely in the library. Understanding how to use the internet has become a cornerstone issue for students. Now, there is a vast landscape of resources available on the internet. But with wealth of options comes responsibility for their use.

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MARCH 12, 2025

They take time, require proper research, and somehow always seem to be due right when everything else is piling up. The biggest term paper writing service benefits come from having a solid referencesomething well-researched, properly formatted, and structured the way a professor actually wants. But term papers?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Some research out of Stanford by Rose E. In earlier research, we observed that novice educators have difficulties helping struggling students, particularly under time pressure. This is the kind of research I want to read more of.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

High school students contemplating a military career should research extensively, speak with recruiters, and perhaps participate in preparatory or introductory military programs to make an informed decision. This is a new Ask a Tech Teacher series on College and Career with a focus on military options.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Researchers have shown that districts around the country dont use the same criteria when grouping students into higher or lower math classes. But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Furthermore, I give parents the research on why their involvement is so important for children to learn to read and some tips on what they can do to help their children read. This episode dives deep into what makes reading instruction effective, offering tips that are practical, research-backed, and impactful for both teachers and parents.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

And a growing body of research, popularized by the Jonathan Haidt book “The Anxious Generation,” argues that smartphone and social media use harms the mental health of teenagers. When it’s proving hard enough to regulate the appropriate use of smartphones, what will it be like to manage a rush of kids wearing computers on their faces?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

More research needs to be done and we can argue over research methods as well. A professor from a major university told me about a study where students were asked to write secure code. Half were told to do it on their own while half were told they could use AI. The students without AI wrote more secure and less buggy code.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They want to implement innovative edtech tools in the classroom but don’t necessarily have the time to research and evaluate solutions before procurement and classroom implementation. Groups like HolonIQ provide us with invaluable market research and data that we use to inform our decisions.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

But after spending two years observing and researching two seemingly similar, high-quality preschools in Madison, Wisconsin, the differences were too profound to ignore. Heading into a new school year, we asked a number of educators and researchers: Which skills are most important to a childs success as they start kindergarten?

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

For individual needs such as casual reading, personal research, or anything else that requires significant amounts of reading, there is help. Most prominent educational testing centers (like SAT, ACT, PARC, and SBACC) make these available for most of their tests.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Research shows that he’s not alone — that often transfer students tend to be more motivated and engaged than students who come to college straight from high school.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Their researchers found that while girls who say they’re interested in STEM grew by 10 percentage points to 55 percent, compared to survey results five years prior, the number of girls who describe themselves as confident or smart enough to earn their dream job has plummeted. “We

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Hardwired to Like Likes One of the reasons young people have a tough time unplugging from social media is that their brains are driven by dopamine, says researcher Laura Marciano. Marciano is a research associate at the Harvard T.H.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Try NAPS 11 Ways X/Twitter Improves Education LOTS of Resources for Kids Online Research Celebrate Pi Day and Maths Day 9 St. Here are the most-read posts for last month: How to Leverage AI Tutors for Effective Learning Tips for Parents, Educators, and Students Subscriber Special: 50% Off Sidebar Sponsors Didnt Get in College?

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