ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do. I am very proud of that fact.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 14, 2022

Acceleration research says it is a way to do that. Dr. Nancy Frey has researched Acceleration Research along with Douglas Fisher and shared their results in Rebound: A Playbook for Rebuilding Agency, Accelerating Learning Recovery, and Rethinking Schools. This episode focuses specifically on acceleration research.

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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. Your concept needs the backing of credible, empirical evidence that follows a research-to-practice trajectory. What research substantiates your product or service?

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools. When schools reopened in 2021, Burkiett and her team decided to roll out the program across the district for students in kindergarten to third grade. So we were pretty happy with Amira,” Burkiett says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. And some educators are skeptical about the idea of avatars doing any form of teaching.

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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

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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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

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

JUNE 26, 2023

In this article, discover how high school education is shifting towards personalized learning. The Future of High School Education: Navigating the Shift to Personalized Learning High school – a time of excitement, curiosity, exploration and growth. Technology advances and education evolves at an unprecedented pace.

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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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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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This research was motivated by Goodnotes' position as the AI-powered digital paper preferred by millions of students and teachers worldwide. The consequent published research is broken down into five recommendations that our contributors have highlighted as the most important, with diversity and equity at the forefront of our thinking.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed. As it turns out, yes.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

This semester, I’m teaching two brand new courses. I’m team-teaching with Steve Abney, a computational linguist. 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.

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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

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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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. Students need to be motivated. They need to be excited. They need to be focused.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The 100th day of school is a special milestone celebrated in many educational institutions around the world. It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 28, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Jennifer Seravallo is dedicated to helping reading teachers improve their teaching methods by providing practical tips and in-depth insights into differentiated reading strategies. book that is new? So what are you waiting for?

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ED Surge

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. Beacon Press “The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)Member” by Cynthia Dillard, Ph.D. King, Ph.D.,

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

For some schools, this meant making a commitment to diversity in their mission statements, as well as creating plans intended to increase equity. But research has found that while schools mostly use similar language in their mission statements broadly, equity is a major exception. But that’s in California.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 21, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter “In today's episode, we're thrilled to have Jay Schroder, author of “ Teach From Your Best Self, A Guide to Thriving in the Classroom. ” With this in mind, we dive into a critical yet often-neglected aspect of teaching—teacher well-being.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Over the years, luminaries in education have researched and acknowledged the nonacademic non-negotiables that lead to strong student outcomes.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives. How much does it weigh? If you’ve got a cat, same questions apply. What’s the dog-to-cat ratio in your classroom (or office or home)?

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ED Surge

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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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 23, 2023

April is Financial Literacy Month, so it's the perfect time to teach financial literacy. In this post, I’ll share with you these resources, how I recommend that you use them, and some interesting pointers I’ve learned as I teach students financial literacy. EVERFI sponsored this post. EVERFI sponsored this post.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you’re in elementary school, this tool is a win for you; the kids will love it. What Reading Skills Does WORD Force Teach? WORD Force is a research-based early literacy course that is free for teachers. Parents will too! Sign up for WORD Force EVERFI sponsored this post. All opinions are my own.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2022

With teacher morale seemingly at an all-time low, school districts are looking for ways to keep educators from burning out and quitting. Districts around the country are announcing plans to adopt four-day school weeks in the fall. Teachers will work a four-day week, but students will continue going to school five days a week.

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ED Surge

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. They observed classrooms.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Just like that, she’s gone,” my friend said to me just a few weeks ago, devastated that her daughter’s second grade teacher — her favorite teacher — left before the school year ended. In eight states, teacher turnover rates are the highest they’ve been in five years, with schools serving families with high poverty rates being hit the hardest.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally facilitate spaces for Black women across and outside the gender spectrum and learn more about their experiences in this climate, as much recent research covers pre-pandemic educator experiences. A Collaborative, Community-Based Research Project.in

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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