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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Antonio Vigil is director of innovative classroom technology at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado. That is just and humanizing. You feel me?”

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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

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It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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It Was Hard to See the Good in 2021 — Until I Started Practicing Gratitude

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Between school closures, learning loss, intensified educator burnout, widespread staff shortages and increased stressors at home, it’s been hard not to focus on the negatives in education this year. Thus began my journey to strengthen my gratitude muscle to help push back negative thoughts and make space for joy in 2021.

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2021

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Every week we publish a new episode of our EdSurge Podcast about the future of learning, a way to hear the voices of students, educators and leaders as they puzzle out some of the thorniest issues facing education. Below are the 10 top episodes of 2021 as voted by listeners.

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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

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And there were plenty of outliers, too, including a fascinating look at what Amazon founder Jeff Bezos really wants from education, and the educators taking aim at Teachers Pay Teachers. Read on for the full list of the stories most popular with readers in 2021. Then, Public Education. We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

ED Surge

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. billion in mid-October, 2021, to $62.8

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When a College Chatbot Breaks Up With You

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For 12 months, Oli kept company with about 500,000 students from the high school class of 2021, more than half of them low-income, minorities, or aspiring first-generation college students. When it first texts a student, it identifies itself as a bot and explains how to reach out to a human if needed. To be clear, Oli is a robot.