ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the past year, colleges have seen a rise in students skipping lectures , and some reports indicate that students are more prone to staring at TikTok or other distractions on their smartphones and laptops during lecture class. Because I think that during COVID, we gave them everything,” she said. “We What's happened to them?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. That experience showed me that high-dosage tutoring can't be the only tool we offer students after the disruptions of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Where some students might see a sequence of dates to memorize, he sees turning points that helped define the world we live in today. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown. Not Caleb Brown. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

What I was told by my family is, ‘Thank God, because you come home and you grade papers. We have to go to your school and help you,’” she says. “I Losing any teacher has ripple effects throughout a school, from eroding the sense of community to a potential knock on students’ academic progress. teachers into four buckets.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2022

The class of 2022 made it almost halfway through high school before the pandemic. They learned in person, remotely, in hybrid models and then in person again. Many students cited the flexibility of remote learning as the sole benefit of the pandemic. Heckman says these kinds of skills are usually picked up in college.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2020

It’s still chaotic, messy, but we’re trying to make it work. We have the will, just need the way. Here’s a sampling of the many and varied emails I got this past week offering help: More Resources to teach remotely . Babbel –free language learning for all US K12 and college students. coronavirus.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The pandemic forced lasting changes on the American education system. What exactly that means for the future technology in schools is still uncertain. The pandemic bump that many edtech firms experienced has faded, but private capital’s interest in edtech, and in shaping the education system, remains. First, career navigation.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 25, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter So, I’ve spent this week looking at and testing many AI tools. If you have public website, your data can also be used to train tools like Chat GPT and some are trying to block their sites from being training data , as well.) What is Web 3.0?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you walked into the classroom of a teacher who was outstanding at serving all of their students—those who might be marginalized, struggling, neurodiverse or recent immigrants—what exactly would you see? What actions distinguish teachers who are especially effective with our most vulnerable students?

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 12, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today I showed seventh graders Chat GPT-4. We are writing ebooks, and the original topic of conversation was how we could use AI to be more creative. I remember when Google emerged and everyone saying it was the end of education as we know it.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2022

In seconds, Smith gets the results that he can scan to get what he calls a “temperature check” on the emotional state of his students, which he can use to inform how he’ll tackle teaching the lesson of the day. You can’t pay attention to learning without these relationships, and vice versa.” says Griffin.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease when I was 12 years old, but I’m grateful that I’ve learned so much about her over the years through my family members and community. I’ve heard countless stories from her past students, who I often run into in the community, about how fondly they remember her.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The administrators who sign off are thinking about how students will benefit long-term from more support in the classroom. So what explains the disconnect? That’s been changing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when virtually every school and teacher were thrust into the edtech landscape.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

They can assist with device management, troubleshoot technical issues and ensure that technology is effectively integrated into the learning process. EdSurge: What role does the student tech team play at your school? This is what makes the student tech team so vital.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. But we are also beginning to understand the breadth of connection, growth and networks that we have encountered over the past two years.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Over the last 10 years — particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — schools and colleges have had to adapt and evolve their approaches to learning and collaboration, opening the door to the “learn from anywhere” world. Chalkboards, pen and paper are a thing of the past. What Is Cloud Storage?

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ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

These fellows tackled complex issues including mental health challenges , teacher burnout , school safety and confronting fear — highlighting various ways teaching and learning have been influenced by various societal forces. Here’s what they had to say.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, we spotlight Misa Sato, an award-winning assistant principal who recently earned the prestigious NASSP Assistant Principal of the Year title. Remember, you're just a podcast away from becoming an even better leader! Check them out now!

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. It was the investment of wisdom and encouragement from my supervisors, and my own hard work, that ultimately led to what I call my lightbulb moment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Christian Miraglia, Educational Consultant for T4Edtech, reminds us that how we used it at first is probably not how we use it now: I Need an Idea, and I Need it Now! I need a lesson idea, and I need it now!” “I need a lesson idea, and I need it now!” What a great resource.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we march forward into a new year, EdSurge is reflecting on the stories we shared and the biggest hits of 2022. We dove into the role of teachers in edtech decision-making and the use of evidence in the development of learning technologies. Concerned Parents and Lawmakers: Here’s What You’ll Really See in My Classroom.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Our students have a window into this violence that we could have never imagined. We both have ideas about how the middle school experience has shaped us — one from the vantage point of a teacher witnessing the change in her classroom and one from the student experiencing the changes herself. You are safe in school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A white art teacher in Houston uses the N-word during a classroom lesson. At my own school district in Minneapolis, where I serve as a counselor, incidents related to hate, bias and interpersonal violence have been climbing since the pandemic began. These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

I visited this campus to get a sense of what college classes feel like now that COVID is more under control, and just about all colleges are fully back in person. My goal in flying down to Texas State was to find out, what do college classes look and feel like now—especially in large lectures like this one? But it’s more than that.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I have to submit data from two recent tests, fill out two data reflection forms, start progress reports and complete the SEL survey about each of my 23 kindergarteners. What am I teaching today? At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2022

The debate about mobile phones in the classroom can get heated. Others push to ban cell phones from the classroom altogether. We asked him to share more thoughts. Let’s bring them in and use them for learning!” Are there creative tools and apps that are beneficial to learning? I learned that the hard way.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This past spring, I had the opportunity to develop a virtual cybersecurity camp for young women and girls called CompuGirls. Wait, what?!” Yet, I wonder, are other affinity groups having the same conversations about safety online, and in the real world, in the same way that we are? exclaimed a student.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

They’re burned out , they’re demoralized , they’re facing hostility from parents , they’re not paid very well , and they’re either dreading or dreaming of a return to remote learning —a decision that most of them don’t have the power to control. The easy answers are: We don’t pay teachers. We don’t value education.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 6, 2022

What should teenagers do after high school? But educators, policymakers and employers who are busy redesigning postsecondary options don’t always understand what teenagers actually need and want. If they listened, what would they learn? Over the past year, Vernell has stopped his side business of reselling phone cases.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What do you do when award-winning teachers tell you there is a way to save time? In this show, she shares some ideas for streamlining and discusses the future of AI in VR and AR and how she thinks it can help us use these advanced tools even more.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2023

But the district decided and communicated to families in November that it would likely have just one snow day this year, with subsequent snow-related school closures treated as virtual learning days, at least at the middle and high school levels. In Iowa, for example, remote learning is effectively banned.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S. Millions of students take English lessons online now, and I’d like to think at least some ESL companies are doing good work, though the extent of their impact still remains to be seen. What was I even teaching them?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2020

I agree with many studies—that online is more effective (one from IBM). Below is a short curation of the most useful articles, links, resources, and webinars to help you through this challenging environment: Online articles: Resources, tips and more for remote and e-learning (teaching online) — from Educational Technology Guy.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 31, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Education technology has good uses, but as we’ve moved through the pandemic, sometimes it may have been mis-implemented or implemented without teacher PD. Also, you can save 20% off your next course by using the code CAT20. What do you think? [00:00:35]

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