ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many even created special offices or programs in the hopes of teaching students how to talk with people they may disagree with. Resident advisors can host fun events, like pumpkin carving, but they should also be responsible for teaching incoming students how to have constructive conversations, Shaffer says.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we’re exploring one of the most exciting and relevant topics in education— teaching kids to code. Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/e202 Aditya Batura : Explore simple steps for teaching coding, including unplugged activities.

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APRIL 16, 2025

This customisability makes Spelling Force an incredibly flexible tool that can adapt to any teaching style or curriculum requirement. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Accessibility and Usability Spelling Force is web-based and compatible with most modern devices, including laptops, desktops, and tablets.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You'll also hear ideas for helping children who struggle to learn and methods for teaching reading. She was my 4th grade teacher and colleague for 16 years. Mrs. Howard was my colleague at Sherwood Christian Academy and is such an amazing woman! I also send my condolences to the family of Mrs. Adkins in her passing.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

With AI tools embedded into student devices, many teachers are left wondering: “How do we even teach writing anymore?” Dawne Beck to discuss honest, practical strategies for teaching writing in todays AI-driven classroom. In today's show we'll talk about ELA teaching in the writing classroom.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, I talk with Komiku about her philosophy or music, the unusual music workshop she teaches, and her advice for educators. And the song we’ve been using has a surprising origin story.

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APRIL 25, 2025

New America has a good overview on raising kids with tech: Navigating How and When to Use Tech When Teaching Young Children Take-Aways from Our Two-Part Series Focused On Tablets in Pre-K Through Third Grade Early childhood educators make thousands of decisions each day. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Computer Science Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI is not quite all there yet.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 22, 2025

Dan Meyer has long been a powerful voice for how to teach math in engaging ways. But how do we teach math today? Also, Dan shares features of Amplify and how it can help in teaching math. Teaching math seems harder than ever in today's world. Dan details how Amplifys tools assist teachers in learning while they teach.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 5, 2025

Teaching artificial intelligence is different. So, as I teach artificial intelligence I want students to be able to show their screens, discuss their prompts and go through the iterative process as we discuss how the various models of AI work. It is different because AI tools interact differently with each of us. All opinions my own.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Digital citizenship teaches safe online practices for students. Games like Minecraft and Sim City can teach complex subjects effectively. Teaching proper keyboarding habits at an early age helps ensure students can focus on content rather than mechanics, supporting their overall academic performance.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher has a passel of online resources to help you introduce, teach, and reinforce digital citizenship to your students. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: summarized by NoteGPT Summary In this video, Jacqui Murray discusses the concept of quick writes as a dynamic and engaging way to teach writing in the classroom. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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APRIL 4, 2025

How do you teach kindergarteners to beware of the digital neighborhood, the home of Legoland and virtual pets? How do you teach fifth graders to be careful when the cool middle schoolers aren’t? How do you teach eighth graders that they aren’t invincible despite the anonymity of the world wide web. It didnt work.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself. In 2000, the National Reading Panel, a group of experts assembled by Congress to explore the scientific basis for teaching reading, identified reading fluency as essential for teaching reading.

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ED Surge

JUNE 20, 2025

While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. Most of all, they want tools that align with the values and realities of teaching. They want support for differentiation, not decision-making.

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APRIL 11, 2025

Dont teach them! Murray emphasizes that this is an ideal time to be involved in teaching technology, whether or not one considers themselves a tech expert. For each topic, Murray offers practical strategies for teaching and integrating them into existing lesson plans. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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MARCH 25, 2025

As a pedagogical strategy, it can be effective in reinforcing critical thinking, cooperation, creativity, and problem solving–traits that are difficult to teach but essential for students who want to become productive, happy adults. How is it implemented The Roman philosopher Seneca declared: docendo discimus (by teaching, we learn).

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Accelerate Learning

JUNE 10, 2025

In today’s classrooms, students aren’t just reading textbooks. They’re decoding digital information, scrolling through newsfeeds, and encountering AI-generated content. But while technology evolves, literacy instruction in many classrooms still centers on traditional skills.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Why teach this in school, you ask? Websites that teach Kindness There are surprisingly a lot of them. Websites that teach Kindness There are surprisingly a lot of them. One of my favorite easy-to-do and non-threatening ones is for students to teach others what they have learned.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Here’s the outline for a seminar I teach in schools before the holiday break, to excite teachers about what they can accomplish “the second half” of the school year: Every year, I make New Year resolutions and ignore them. Resolutions that are, instead, about my teaching mindset. What’s with that?

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem. In my fifth year of teaching Arabic as a second language, I often reflect on how frequently my subject is undervalued.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

And the tools serve as a particular lifeline for neurodivergent students, who suddenly have access to services that can help them get organized and support their reading comprehension, teaching experts say. From a teaching, learning standpoint, that's pretty concerning to me,” he says.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, I spoke with several teachers regarding their primary questions and reflections on using AI in teaching and learning. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning? Keeping in mind these reflections, we can better understand how we move forward toward meaningful AI integration in education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. This shift changes how we approach teaching young people about digital citizenship. Richard Culatta This is why it’s so important to overtly teach good digital citizenship skills. The determination depends on how we choose to use it.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Teachers and professors can make adjustments in how they teach that will greatly reduce incidents of student cheating with AI. Gallant co-authored the forthcoming book, The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, with David Rettinger, associate chair of psychology at the University of Tulsa.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you’re wondering where to start, here are some good basics from the Ask a Tech Teacher international team: Integrating Technology in Education for Modern Classrooms Embracing technology is crucial for modern educators aiming to enhance their teaching methodologies and foster student engagement.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching as Transformation That spark carried me into student teaching in Townsville, Queensland, Australia where I was pushed to grow in ways I hadnt expected. Teaching while still learning to manage a classroom and create cohesive, engaging lessons in a new environment was humbling and daunting.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult. I continued to struggle with the mechanics of teaching, especially the most essential part of being a teacher: presence. I left my student teaching year feeling genuinely broken. I reread my lesson plans before I teach.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2025

Only one in eight programs give elementary school teachers enough time to learn the math content they teach, according to a recent study by the National Council on Teacher Quality, which reviewed more than 1,100 teacher prep programs around the country. The aim is to give teachers a deeper grasp of the content and more practice teaching it.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching. While I envisioned teaching that challenged students to question and connect their learning to larger social issues, the expectations placed on me as an educator were quite different. She asked, “But what about your career?”

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