ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

In fact, many schools that have taken on reforming their grading systems have faced passionate objections from parents , who worry that their children will miss out on opportunities, or lose their motivation to turn in work, if they aren’t striving to win high marks in the traditional grading game.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a classroom teacher, I always tried to improve my practice by reading academic and practice-based articles, attending trainings and connecting with fellow educators to share resources and troubleshoot challenges. I love learning. The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

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. percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

This is part of a three-article series covering key principles to consider when building out computer science programs in your academic setting. Read the other articles here and here.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a Gallup article , schools that promote creativity see improved scores on standardized tests and results of deeper understanding. During the pandemic, she saw creativity pushed away as schools scrambled to get the traditional core content out to students. Creativity is about making a major impact on learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2022

The inclusion of these informal learning experiences in a trusted and reliable way has great potential for students and particularly for lifelong and non-traditional learners. Education is more than mere courses completed. Technology that makes alternative learning sharable and verifiable elevates these learning paths.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

This article is a partial transcript of an episode of the EdSurge Podcast. Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. They have their opinions.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

He suggested that instead of changing traditional school systems, guidelines and practices, I should be working toward helping students learn how to be successful within the current school environment. When he first entered middle school, John was used to a more traditional learning environment.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He says his students use ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI’s paid version of ChatGPT, to brainstorm research questions, to help digest scientific articles and to simulate datasets. Kohn also teaches a first-year writing course, AI Chatbots in Science, and he’s remained optimistic. They also run an AI review of their writing, Kohn says.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I mean, it's filtered by algorithms and so forth, but compared to something like a traditional paper or a book or something, [it] is relatively unfiltered, and you're making the decision about what to read and not, you're constantly leafing through these sorts of things, and only a small fraction of things online are probably worth your attention.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Also topping the chart was an in-depth look at one school district’s effort to build affordable housing for its teachers; an op-ed on how to provide students what they want in online college courses; and an article on an effort to use new AI tools to help teachers improve their craft. This article was co-published with Mother Jones magazine.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Johnson: We have an obligation to think about transforming traditional assignments into something more interactive and problem-solving-based. Using calculators increased mathematical thinking skills, but not just by themselves; there was a lot of really thoughtful pedagogy on when and how to introduce calculators.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2022

My last article, about how teacher care is more than self care , was the most read on EdSurge for the month of November. And while I was pleased that the words resonated, it is also disturbing that something so fundamental as care and wellbeing is hitting a nerve with the education community.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2022

Having been an English teacher and also working with educators, there are some students who feel intimidated by heavy texts, or might be reluctant to read articles or books. Jane Margolis: One is the importance of pedagogy in computer science education—specifically about culturally relevant pedagogy.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

As Neal Stephenson, the science fiction author who coined the term ‘Metaverse’ in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash” pointed out in a Washington Post article, “Right now, the metaverse is a primordial soup of lots of big and small companies banging into each other.” And, regrettably, when it comes to education, they remain constrained by tradition.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2023

Now we’re ready to reveal the top higher education stories that EdSurge published in 2022, based on their popularity with you, our readers. We’ll do this countdown style, starting with number 10 and working our way to the top article of the year.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. Instead, we talked about how those stories came to be and whose interests they served.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. The articles were well-written, the vocabulary words well-chosen. It was a plug-and-play approach.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. Related Articles Teaching Partner, Grading Assistant or Substitute Teacher?

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Edthena

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the News In a recent article, Edutopia explored the potential of AI in revolutionizing teaching practices particularly through the lens of AI-powered instructional coaching. This innovative approach to professional learning is changing how educators refine their skills and teaching practices.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Kathryn Kay Coquemont: I want to compare something that happened in my formal education with what I think is happening with our current traditional-age college students' education. Some people think that this book shouldn't be taught and here's a couple articles about why. That's become harder to do.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. This is undoubtedly an artifact of traditional grading systems: They encourage a one-and-done approach that penalizes taking time to learn. Many traditional grading systems have muddy rules that lead to miserable scenarios. Inspired by Susan D.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

When it comes to getting access to the latest scholarly articles, there’s a stark digital divide. To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. The number of open access journals has grown over the years.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

But there could be concern that the number of charters granted might become a zero-sum game in some places, and then fewer charters would be granted to non-religious schools, or just simply that public monies that might otherwise be available to traditional charter schools would not be available to them. That's really interesting.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

She and a colleague published a journal article about their experience last year, called “ TikTok: An Emergent Opportunity for Teaching and Learning Science Communication Online. ” “It is the ethical responsibility of researchers to disseminate findings with the public in a timely way,” the paper concludes. “I

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

Russell studies the intersection of philosophy and business ethics, and, like Hussain did, he hopes to challenge the assumption that it’s OK for business leaders to suspend some traditional morality in the name of market competition—something sometimes taught at business schools. It makes me think of the novel “The Hunger Games.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

Fortunately, I was able to share an experience that offered a lens into the ways we intentionally and unintentionally frame public education. The article sparked dialogue on social media and hopefully contributed to a larger conversation about the state of education in our nation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

What we are reading All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional school in nearly two decades My colleague, Ariel Gilreath, reports on the opening of the first traditional school run by the New Orleans school district since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. There is no right way to be a boy or a girl.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. The articles are undergoing peer review, so Ortiz cant share more than general details, but he describes them as case studies that feature partnerships with historically marginalized and under-represented groups in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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