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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? ’ But why does this transition feel so abrupt, and how can students better prepare for it?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Yadira Mederos De Cardenas, a teacher at the early learning center All Five, in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park, May 26, 2023. But having already missed so many work days this past school year — about a week per month of work to care for her children — she put her foot down. "I Photo by Lizzy Myers for The Almanac.

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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’s mother, Honesti Melendez, is 16 and attends high school in the same building where her daughter learns. Social workers also help other family members find jobs and work through other issues.

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APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you have no idea what any of that means, that’s perfectly fine, good and normal. We’ve always been willing to do what it takes to get the students motivated and engaged,” he told EdSurge. I look at it as the future of: What if we could program it to be our substitute teacher at school?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

There’s merely what You decide and where those decisions land You. If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. You’ll remember why you’re a teacher. On the surface, it’s not so surprising.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Students will get to learn how target vocabulary items are being used in real life contexts to create meanings. Unfortunately, a sizable portion of online news stories, especially those circulating on social media sites are fake news, false information, disinformation, misinformation, or downright propaganda.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

While edtech isn’t explicitly within her purview, she works hand in hand with the district’s technology department because, as she says, “in this day and age, it's hard to do much without some form of technology in the classroom.” EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Dr. Ness about the skills needed for reading, the most effective way to teach them and how Learning Ally’s Excite Reading can help. EdSurge: What does the science of reading show about the skills necessary to become a proficient reader? Reading proficiency requires the mastery of many complex skills.

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JULY 25, 2022

What this makes abundantly clear is that the future of education depends directly on our commitment to the success of new teachers. This approach helps teachers reflect deeply and hold evidence-based discussions with coaches and colleagues. And the effect is just as powerful when it comes to student learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Young adults stopped working entirely. They did so by taking a risk on one or more new hypotheses about how the edtech market should work moving forward. Industry heavyweight Canvas bought Learn Platform , citing the company’s capabilities in assessing product efficacy as a rationale. Test scores fell dramatically.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. Here, she explains how Course of Mind: ISTE’s learning sciences initiative factors into that ambitious plan.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

You can use the lessons as they are or you can create your own based on them. Each lesson comes with three main sections : Think (includes multiple questions and open ended questions), Dig Deeper (features extra resources students can use to learn more about the topic), and Discuss (features open discussions). What makes muscles grow?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. Instead, the Norway-based company—which counts Disney as an investor —revealed a new suite of digital games, called Kahoot! And no, it’s not more quizzes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These practices are largely based on giving students more voice in the classroom, so the balance of “talk” between a teacher and their students isn’t heavily skewed toward the former. For student outcomes to change, something has to change about what the teacher is doing in the classroom. It’s not a rubric. It’s a reflection.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, predicted last year that it will usher in the greatest tech transformation ever. That’s why the U.S. What Do Educators Want From AI? Largely, the hope expressed by observers is that AI tools will finally deliver on personalized learning and, ultimately, increase equity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2023

Check out this article from one of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors addressing why tech+math are good partners and where that will go in the future: The Future of Math Education: Integrating Technology in the Classroom Introduction In today’s digital age, it is increasingly necessary to integrate technology into the classroom.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Danielle Caldwell has been operating her home-based child care program, The Children’s Room, for 27 years. The North Carolina child care provider has long known that her work would not lead to riches, but years ago, that was less of a concern. I’m not behind on my bills, but I don’t feel like I have extra money to just kind of spare.”

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JANUARY 4, 2024

While there was still discussion around attracting new teachers, there was an increase in talk about keeping teachers, too — including from teachers speaking frankly about what would make them stay or why they left. Not just the numbers, either, though there was plenty of interest in the data. My Students Deserve a Classroom.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

This scarcity mindset — that there’s not enough opportunity to go around, and so you just have to make do — has to be unlearned, usually when you’re older and realize that you don’t want to work for peanuts or spend every day at a bad workplace or get passed over for another promotion. Here’s what they had to say. ‘No.’

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2022

So it is understandable why teachers who use eSpark will find it is an excellent partner in reading and math. eSpark earned Digital Promise’s Research-Based Product Certification in 2021. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 8, 2024

The Science Behind Brain Breaks Most educators experience students’ glazed eyes, heads down, whispering, texting under the table and disruptive classroom behavior. However, teachers who understand brain science know why these student behaviors happen. Learning begins at the Reticular Activating System (RAS) inside the brain.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 26, 2022

That's why she uses edtech tools in the classroom to provide a safe space where she can encourage all types of learners to contribute. Do you remember what participation felt like? What if I give the incorrect answer in front of all of my classmates? Did you have to raise your hand to answer questions? I’m paying attention.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

Teachers often found it hard to monitor attendance and assess students’ understanding: one study found that the impact of the pandemic left students on average five months behind in mathematics and four months behind in reading by the end of the school year. So why has edtech so far largely failed to deliver on its vast potential?

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

Recorded live at ISTE, the conversation delves into how Genius Hour has been revamped and integrated into the sixth-grade curriculum, offering students a full-year exploratory course that goes beyond traditional learning. Focused on designing project-based learning units with an interdisciplinary approach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2021

However, over the past few months, kids have largely been cooped up at home due to the impact of COVID-19; the lack of access to a tried-and-true schooling process and resources will result in young children missing out on foundational concepts in literature, math and science that prepare them for a lifetime of learning and working.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 10, 2023

With April being financial literacy month, there's no better time to tune in and learn how to integrate financial literacy into your curriculum. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we share a must-listen podcast for educators who want to help their students succeed financially.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2022

As the pandemic progresses, professors are sharing stories about what feels to them like widespread student disengagement. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all). But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 5, 2022

The best Instructional Technology Coaches are partners, culture leaders, encouragers, and easy to work with, says Dr. Katie Ritter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers. Stream by clicking here.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

What’s at the top of their to-do lists? Let’s take a closer look at what keeps data-driven instruction from working in the real world. But despite broad support, it seems like everybody has a different understanding of what it means to be “data-driven.” According to the data , it’s data-driven instruction.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So, let's embrace the new year and reflect on what we can learn from the stresses and messes of this past fall and take the opportunity to renew our commitment to not just teaching but thriving in our classrooms. That is what you get with Modern Classrooms so go to coolcatteacher.com/modern today and sign up.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But what exactly are these five essential ingredients for nurturing student well-being? Subscribe to the Show This week's guest Dr. Smith spent a decade working in schools as a counselor, social worker and high school drug counselor. Smith spent a decade working in schools as a counselor, social worker and high school drug counselor.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

Busy teachers use EVERFI’s standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons, recently awarded with the ISTE Seal for high-quality curriculum, to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world. Go to everfi.com/coolcat to learn more and sign up to get a virtual swag bag full of free goodies to get the school year off to a great start.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. Not only does it eliminate the noise of who’s wearing what, disruptive students, and classes cancelled due to snow days, it is becoming the surest and easiest way to treat all students equally.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

What is Random Acts of Kindness Day? Why is Kindness important? Why kindness is important seems obvious but really, it isn’t. I can name a whole lot of people who have succeeded despite being, well, jerks so why should we think there’s merit in a gentler approach? ” I didn’t know him.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Bear all this in mind as you consider the following question: What if there were a job-skills machine? The problem with infrastructure is that it tends to be expensive. And slow to build. And hard to maintain. Oh, and also kind of boring. Most people only notice it when it collapses, like an old bridge. Like the steam engine. Or the internet.

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