ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. But the track record for such reforms is mixed. “It

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 21, 2024

As I have been teaching with and using these newest round of AI tools since January 2023, I've also been interviewing experts and other educators and sharing the learning here on this show. This session is intended for adults but all content will be safe for work. Presenter: Vicki Davis (that's me) Who is invited?

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2024

While some educators would rally at the thought of being back home and working in their former schools, those of us who have experienced adversity within our respective communities quiver at the thought of being back. As a result, those of us who did not sink were forced to keep our respective grades afloat.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As an educator, I work within and around systems that are designed to lock out historically marginalized communities; this is why I lead and educate through a DEI lens. If anything, the more I engaged in systems change work, racial equity training and audits, the more pronounced my passion and investment in DEI became. How did it go?”

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

So how much work would it take to come up with guidelines to help educators manage the challenges of using generative AI tools for their work? So how much work would it take to come up with guidelines to help educators manage the challenges of using generative AI tools for their work?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2024

While the pay is greater, so is the stress and demands associated with the work. Each picked the path that worked best for them. Here’s how it works in the Navy: They offer what’s called a Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program. They are the rare employer who accepts everyone qualified and doesn’t lay you off.

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall. It’s about space and place for most of us, especially undergraduate libraries,” she added.

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2024

I could feel its grip around my legs and waist as it worked its way up my body. These facets are all converging together against us, slowly pressing down against our will. It feels like there are people out there who want me to stop using my voice. It feels like they want me to feel scared at work and at board meetings.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Just like [adults] rethought our work-life balance, and our employers had to treat us kindly and reengage us and to show us why we should work for them — kids are the same,” Demsky says. Since the pandemic, mental health strains on youth have been put in the spotlight. Some districts have gotten creative.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2024

According to CNBC, the United States has the NSA and FBI preparing to combat deepfakes and misinformation as the US prepares for the 2024 election. Using faces I generated from ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com , I asked students to vote on which face(s) were real. I had them use this tool for several reasons.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or pulls small groups. For me, that part is important because I collaborate best when I feel like I can relate to the people I work with beyond the work we do together.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

There is no one who knows what students need more than us.” — Angelica Martinez, 2023 Graduate, Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ) Historically, research institutions, education entrepreneurs and technology developers have led the research and development (R&D) of education programs and tools. “Education is made for students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As educators, we need to be more discerning and discriminating about the use of technology in our classrooms and be willing to admit when the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. Working from home on a subpar laptop, most of my time was spent waiting for things to load.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I'll also give you tips on creating a workflow that works for you. We all need to find a system that works for us and we need to choose tools that align with our individual preferences and workflows. I hope you enjoy picking out the notebook service that works for you. I've been using it for a long time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 1, 2024

There are several strategies parents can use to support their children effectively. For us parents, it can feel like we’re navigating uncharted waters alongside them. Dealing with academic and social challenges in fourth grade can be challenging for parents.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As she worked on the project with her professor, Andrew Aleman, he started asking her about whether she had plans to transfer to seek a bachelor’s degree, Garcia recalls. The input of community college students and faculty helps to ensure the survey results will be useful locally, Gaona-Macedo adds, not just to academics at UCLA. “It

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2024

Life often interferes with work. Vacations, conferences, PD–all these take us away from our primary functions and the environment where we are most comfortable delivering our best work. Whatever works, but have one if traveling to education conferences, use eboarding passes–don’t print.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2024

But the experiment points to interesting possibilities — and raises ethical questions — about how the latest AI tech might be used to improve teaching. AI could afford us a novel way of seeing into something we haven’t seen into before,” says Kyle Bowen, deputy chief information officer at Arizona State University.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

During every discussion, we placed a piece of paper at the center of our circle that read: “The goal is that we understand this work and ourselves more.” This consistent goal drove our conversations and the development of a set of norms that we used to foster a culture of respect and to ensure that every voice was heard.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the school setting, trauma can take various forms: only being supported in private, having someone take credit for your contributions, working in a competitive school or being in a setting that’s not culturally responsive. Specifically, I noticed a recurring theme of trauma among my peers. I felt unsupported and undervalued.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While ETHS connected us, none of us had ever been in the same room to share and narrate our stories. After dinner, we sat together and reflected on what has kept us all in the classroom, despite the challenges of the education profession. Photo courtesy of Winchester. She shared: “My why is to spread or give love in any way.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 11, 2024

Subscribe to the Show This week's sponsor MAD-Learn - Mobile App Development MAD-Learn is a free, easy tool for students to use to build apps of their own in a private space for just you and your students. He served on the Working Group for President Obama's Advisory Council on Financial Capability. We can help our children learn!

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I had a classroom last year, and while it was shared with my math counterpart, it was large and just for us. This affected some of us more than others. We offer self-contained and behavioral support classes for students with significant exceptionalities, which some of us teach in designated classrooms that have remained intact.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How do you get your free book: Email your receipt to us at askatechteacher at gmail dot com. 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. What’s in the Hour of Code bundle? Ask Jacqui Murray at askatechteacher at gmail dot com.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

While that can be typical, we also want to consider the habits that will help us teach long-term with a high quality of life. link] Blog: [link] Podcast: [link] Show Notes Takeaways: Setting Boundaries: Establishing clear boundaries, especially regarding communication with parents and managing work time, is crucial to prevent burnout.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. He plans to focus on a new effort at Southern New Hampshire to explore how to reshape college teaching through the use of new generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

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ED Surge

APRIL 28, 2023

And it takes time and patience for the work of self-compassion to bear fruit. Whatever those goals may be, self-compassion encourages us to examine our motivations for those goals and adjust them if necessary. But there’s a way to handle that stress, and it begins with self-compassion. It’s about giving yourself grace.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Sometimes I just need a few minutes in my car to decompress before I run errands, go home and do more work. You always try to tell yourself, “It's only a job,” and not work outside of contract hours, but teaching is so much more than a job. Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education. It's a passion.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2023

Does that memory have value and use, or does it hinder progress? Aging gracefully is difficult for all of us, but as a teacher, it’s been trickier than I expected. When I hear others talk about change now, my reaction to it isn’t the same as it used to be. The team interpreted much of that questioning as hostility and fear.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense. Using pedagogical theories to approach teaching with AI So why is this gaze backward when we are talking about the future of AI in higher ed?

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 7, 2024

His belief that “every student is a success story waiting to be told” has led him to work with teachers and administrators to create positive school cultures and build effective relationships that facilitate learning for all students. Tom is a compelling presenter, infusing his message of hope with strategies culled from the real world.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From using Animate from Audio to create animated reflections to using Text to Image to create generative AI art, Jesse provides practical tips and ideas for teachers to empower their students through creativity. Remixable templates as a starting point for student work 11:09 Tip 7. But, even the best of us can be caught napping.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. They can show you have to use technology to unlock deeper student relationships with your students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

million of us in the United States were raised, but important for context just the same. There’s a belief in Latino culture that we should be grateful for whatever our boss is willing to give us and never ask for more, no matter how bad things get. Read the first part here and the second part here. Here’s what they had to say.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

To help us dig into these questions, we invited three experts with rich perspectives for this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast: Shalin Jyotishi, a senior advisor of education, labor, and the future of work at New America. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I used to as well — it sounds prestigious and respectable. But many don’t realize “adjunct” is a fancy word for part-time contract work. It seemed like the perfect career for me, especially since I had worked as a babysitter, a nanny and a preschool assistant. I first got into teaching because I loved kids and I loved books.

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