ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

For years, I’ve worked with young people during one of the most significant transitions of their lives. Having taught and worked with seniors in high school for over half of my career, these questions are always present, rarely asked, and, for me, often remain unanswered.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2023

I have a confession to make: It’s not as hard as it looks. If their computer doesn’t work, I have them fix it ( what’s wrong with it? No matter how many hands are waving in my face, I do not take a student’s mouse in my hand and do for them, nor will I allow parent helpers to do this (that is a bigger challenge than the students.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

As he puts it, “One day, I was working there as a paraeducator, and the next day I was student teaching in sixth grade.” During my post-baccalaureate program, I was working as a paraeducator at Philistine Rondo School of Discovery, a public elementary school here (in Corona, California). So that was my journey. That was my path.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching is hard. We work to listen to why they are struggling and turn every sense we have into reading their face, voice, and body language to attempt to know what is going on. There are so many things about teaching that are hard. I know, I know.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

After all, about 70 percent of online students work , while in the wider college population, only about 40 percent are employed. Even though Zoom and other video conferencing systems have opened classrooms to remote students, the habit of delivering lectures in real time is hard to break, and that doesn't translate as well online.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2022

COVID hit schools hard, closing them down and forcing parents to become teachers. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Drew Allen, is an active working parent with some ideas on the new reality of parents-as-educators: Managing Your Kids Needs as Educator and Parent. This is another place where boundaries matter.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

That’s one of the primary concerns of those watching these populations of students, according to Lynette Guastaferro, CEO of Teaching Matters, a New York-based nonprofit that tries to expand access to quality instruction. For the kind of intervention Teaching Matters performs, the data is “non-negotiable,” he says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

They’re answers that, when it comes to education and work and success, aren’t supposed to matter—but seem to anyway. Who matters most to you? They’re answers that, when it comes to education and work and success, don’t always seem to matter—but maybe should. Who are you? What do you love to do? What scares you?

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2022

But that narrative can work against efforts of educational equity, putting the onus on students to achieve, no matter what systemic obstacles are in their way. It’s still popular to prize students who demonstrate “grit,” who overcome tough odds to become successful.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out. Put it in folders or create one for ‘Working on’. An SSD drive is one of those super-fast, expensive hard-drives. 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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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

It's hard to teach math, period. 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. I had to constantly ask myself: What really matters?

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Reach University offers adults employed in schools and other workplaces the opportunity to earn a unique bachelor’s degree that embraces work experience as part of the learning process. When students feel connected to each other and the professor, walls are broken down and they are able to engage in the challenging work of learning math.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The entire school staff worked incredibly hard to give our students every opportunity possible. Some days it just seems easier to work in a cubicle where at least the air conditioning works. But no matter how hard we try we can’t help but see the inequities, the injustice, the hypocrisy in our education system.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

populations, including “tips” on how to work with diverse communities. It was hard for me to hear anything after that, over the whooshing sound of blood rushing to my head, my heart pounding from the cortisol spike in my body. Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. Shouldn’t you know that?

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2023

What if you’re a new first grade teacher, and you realize the classroom methods you’re using to teach your students to read just aren’t working. The Right to Read” doesn’t just go over the podcast’s same ground — though it cites Hanford’s work heavily, and she is interviewed in the film. Is it working for all of our kids?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Understandably, coming from a majority Black school in the city where every student looks like you to a majority white school in the suburbs can be a hard adjustment for a student to manage. He loves his new Chromebook and would happily spend the day with one earbud in, listening to music as he works.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out. Put it in folders or create one for ‘Working on’. An SSD drive is one of those super-fast, expensive hard-drives. The less your computer has to do–find fonts, open programs, that sort–the faster it gets to work.” ” Finished?

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

It’s really hard to get good career advice right now. We’ve spent a lot of the past 10 to 15 years transitioning technical training to online formats, which has worked particularly well for rapid upskilling and older learners. If they can do that on a consistent basis, everything else will be easier, no matter how the market is doing.

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MAY 12, 2022

I won’t take time in this article (I’m over 800 words right now) for a how-to on each activity so if you don’t know how to complete one, check with your IT folks or Google it: Make sure your firewall and antivirus programs are working. If you haven’t missed a file by now, it won’t matter if you throw it out.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I worked as an administrator for 10 years, so I think about edtech from both sides — both how an administrator makes decisions about edtech tools, but also how we can support our teachers,” Ballard shared in a focus group that was part of a larger project designed to better understand the gap between teaching practices and technology use. “I

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

With their hard work, the man allegedly responsible for one of the most notorious crimes in U.S. Actually, it’s 2022, and they are sitting in Debbie Venteicher and Erin Stanley’s American Studies class, gathered around a device and collaboratively working to complete a digital breakout created with Genially.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Though published for authors, these tips are well-suited for writing classes and teacher-authors: Writing is hard. It doesn’t matter if no one else does. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link]. 7 Writing Hacks. And satisfying. And an opportunity for the long-sought-after huzzah moment.

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STEM Education Works

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Over 95% of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy … and we really have no idea what they are. So here’s the deal: a vast majority of our universe is made up of this stuff called dark matter and dark energy and, pun entirely intended, we’re really in the dark as to what they really are. with light). Happy Halloween! –

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Furthermore, within the vast scope of science history, men have continuously taken credit for women's intellectual work in science, a pervasive phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect. Stories Matter When my survey revealed that my students didn’t believe becoming a scientist was possible, this was a wake-up call for me.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

[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. This includes not checking messages or emails during off-hours to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Barb (01:20) Right.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a time when we are witnessing yet another political battle to restrict students and young people from learning about Black history, I want to remind us all that learning and teaching Black history shouldn’t be a matter of choice or convenience – it is a necessity. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2024

But there’s been a lot of work done to make sure fewer students are being rerouted away from college math and diverted into prerequisite developmental courses , she says. Student motivation, a sense of belonging and self-efficacy matter, Bickerstaff says.

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

Our work has centered on students—their mental health, their well-being and what it takes to help them thrive. As we’ve expanded our work and research to schools and colleges across the country, there’s a shift emerging: it’s not just students and their families in desperate need of support. While well intentioned, this advice fails.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

Bir is working to add a feature that would let users upvote resources they found helpful, he adds. The project reflects work that libraries have been doing for a long time, says Steven Bell, an associate university librarian at Temple University. But those are so hard to use,” Bir says, adding, “I've never touched one in my life.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And hard to maintain. But what if that large bill didn’t matter so much as the hundred individual dollars it represents, or even the 10,000 pennies? Is a “soft” one as important as a “hard” one ? Creating and maintaining something like the O*NET system takes a lot of work. And slow to build. Oh, and also kind of boring.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. This innovative approach has been working for well over 10 years. It can be hard to conceptualize AI, so I've started doing ‘60 seconds on Snapdragon’ videos to explain some of the AI functionality in our devices these days.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

That left us at EdSurge to ponder, how are edtech companies making sure their products are working best for teachers, the people responsible for weaving them into lessons each day? One of the goals of user research is to get the needs of any kind of customer or audience, no matter your background,” she says. “I

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2023

Reflecting on the strong leaders I’ve worked with, clear communication was key. They all offered guidance, feedback and support in a timely and constructive manner — which helped me improve my work, address any concerns and feel more confident in my role. I need to feel as though my professional goals matter to them.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I've been working out six days a week for 45 minutes on average for the last six weeks and am entering my seventh. I think we learn to eat quickly so we can get our work done, and we don't slow down when we eat. Todd Henry, Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day. Some things are just better done slowly. Enough of that!). "A

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STEM Education Works

MAY 6, 2024

No matter what social media platform (like Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram) you pick for your classroom, it is sure to drive interest amongst your students and cultivate an environment of constructive communication and collaboration. Dr. Jake Roark The post Using Social Media in the STEM Classroom appeared first on STEM Education Works.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

If you build it, will it work? And it appears we're in for a hard landing in 2023, with annual funding projected to close at pre-pandemic levels of $3.5 Step 1: Root Your Work in Research Before you start marking up a whiteboard, hit pause. And how will you measure it? Now, the industry is in a reset.

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The Science Penguin

JUNE 17, 2023

Luckily, The Science Penguin is not new to the changes We’ve been incorporating phenomena and engineering into our work with NGSS for quite some time. 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 3rd Grade Matter : Students understand that matter has measurable physical properties. We’re all set and (nearly) ready to go!

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