ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The scholar’s ideas are suddenly having a moment in tech and innovation circles, thanks to a blog post on a website popular among Silicon Valley insiders. The blog, Astral Codex Ten , has been described by The New York Times as “a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.”

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Well, another year of writing has passed, and it was a big one as 2019 marked ten years since I began my blogging journey. Well, after begrudgingly agreeing to pen some guest posts for him, I built up my confidence and launched my blog in March of 2019. Blogging has certainly changed over the past ten years.

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DECEMBER 28, 2014

Being an author is still a shock to me as I never, ever thought I could write even a blog post, let alone three books. Near the end of the school year in June I published one of my most popular blog posts to date that provided insight on the successful implementation of 13 specific change initiatives at NMHS.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Common Core for the not-so-common learner: English language arts strategies grades K-5. Common Core ELL English Language Learners Guest Blog Post Guest Blogger Leadership' Nonetheless, we contend that a concentration on the enhancement of teaching skills and strategies is not enough. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Honigsfeld, A., &

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Adobe recently announced its next-generation Adobe Acrobat XI software, complete with cloud services to help K-12 and higher education teachers and administrators handle complex document challenges and alleviate productivity inefficiencies. Please click here to access the official Adobe Education blog announcing the launch.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of information on this topic in the context of K-12 education. For more detail on this three-part approach to designing a flipped lesson, you can read this blog. For more on playlists, check out this blog. Students and families have 24/7 access to video instruction online.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This blog post examines recent evaluations highlighting gaps in civics education and explores how HQIM can address these challenges. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

Here’s a list of resources to learn more about AI: Blog post: Links to 3 Webinars on AI and the Future of Learning. Blog post: AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education? Organization: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for K-12 initiative (AI4K12). Where can educators go to learn more? Organization: AI4ALL.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

Seth Brady, Grades 9-12 Teacher (Illinois). Robert Cannone, Grades K-8 Coach & Consultant (Ontario). Megan Edlefsen, Grades 9-12 Fashion, Interior Design, and Personal Finance (Texas). James Ewing, Grade K-5 STEM/Science and Grade 4 Special Education (New York). Brent Christensen, Grade 7 Math Teacher (Washington).

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

Kim Dawson, grades K-5 Technology and Robotics teacher at West Allegheny School District, Pennsylvania. Elayne Hollander, grades K-5 Media and Technology teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida. Steve Isaacs, grades 7-12 Game Design teacher at Bernards Township Public Schools, New Jersey.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

This 3-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. Shifting from threat to opportunity in K-12 innovation In educational futurist Michael B.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2018

The other day I delivered a morning presentation to a large group of K-12. Whether it was short tweets, pictures on Instagram, videos on YouTube, or more detailed descriptions on my blog, the overall focus was to showcase efficacy in our work. This is something that I speak to at length in BrandED.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

This blog post is the second in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. Schools need more robust examples that focus on what CT is (and isn’t), and they need specific support around K-12 CT integration.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 9, 2015

A few shout-outs that this blog has gotten this year… Onalytica calculated Dangerously Irrelevant to be the 5th-most influential educational technology and e-learning blog in the world. EdTech magazine named Dangerously Irrelevant as one of its ‘must read’ K-12 IT blogs for 2015. Much appreciated!

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2020

As schools closed and educators struggled to identify and navigate resources for online teaching and learning, Remake leveraged its network to compile a list of resources specifically designed to connect regional educators, parents, and caregivers to resources for K-12 learning during the time of COVID-19.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 22, 2018

For anyone working in K-12 schools and districts, using multiple software products is a way of life. With all of these separate K-12 education technology products from a variety of vendors, interoperability — or how well the products communicate and share data with each other — can be a lost cause. 10’s data manager.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

While there has been considerable focus on developing K-12 computational thinking pathways in major U.S. The Floyd County and Pikeville teams got a glimpse of SFSD’s comprehensive K-12 computing pathway through the eyes of the students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

If entire K-12 districts move online, what can schools expect of early elementary schoolers? As Holland points out, successful remote learning experiences depend on teachers who know how to create and deliver engaging lessons online and students who have the digital literacy skills to access them.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 22, 2019

Advancing Computational Thinking Across K-12 Education blog post and report. To get more information about the game, leave a comment with your email address below. Want to know more about Computational Thinking? Find more resources here: Computational Thinking overview.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Here’s one possible solution: The Atlanta Public Schools’ data visualization blog. This public K-12 school district makes the data it gathers accessible to the public – and not by just dumping out raw numbers that are virtually meaningless to anyone except data scientists. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

In a state with 96 percent of its teaching staff being white, choosing teaching was to be no different,” the 27-year-old high school teacher in Minneapolis wrote in her blog this winter. Racial battle fatigue isn’t just limited to K-12 educators. “I have been navigating majority (or all-) white spaces for a very long time. …

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Preliminary research suggests that design thinking improves metacognition in K-12 students, and ultimately improves STEM performance. For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al.,

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2021

If you’re in education deep enough to be reading a blog about a science education micro-credential, you likely know that it’s not so simple to make this happen. That was 2010, and A Framework for K-12 Science Education was out for public review. In fact, sometimes it seems like a far off and impossible dream.

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Education K-12 Research Teaching 136

Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

Over the last 10 years policymakers have focused much of their K-12 school reform attention on making the evaluation of teachers more rigorous and tying performance results to their compensation (see recent Calder report here ). We will explore this opportunity in our next blog post.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Franklin West Supervisory Union will add the district’s first full-time CS teacher to work directly with K-8 students. Baltimore County Public Schools will begin offering a full K-5 CS immersion program in two magnet schools with Code to the Future. Increasing their computer science capacity through teachers.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The right team, professional development and buy-in are essential to transformative digital learning, according to leaders of some of the largest K–12 school districts in the U.S. The district is committed to equipping leaders with the necessary expertise to sustainably transform education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2021

Industry : Nonprofit Education Service Agency; K-12 Educator Professional Development. KVEC has developed a niche in providing free, flexible professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 teachers through micro-credentials.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Black, Indigenous, students of color make up more than 50 percent of the K-12 student population, yet the number of non-white teachers in schools is only 20 percent. How can we collaborate with and learn from teachers of color to create solutions to address this systematic shortage?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

billion commitment to bridge the digital divide by providing free internet and Wi-Fi hotspots for five years to disadvantaged K-12 students. In 2020, T-Mobile launched Project 10Million, a $10.7 Today, over 5.3 million students nationwide are connected to high-speed internet through their schools and at home.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 23, 2018

Education publishers have developed a huge collection of high quality online lessons and courses for the K-12 audience of teachers and students. The obvious solution is to somehow adapt the K-12 tech programs to the adult market, thereby getting a “two for one” and avoiding costly R&D.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

artificial intelligence , the future of assessments, and leveraging block chain technology to facilitate the transitions from K-12 to higher education and the workforce). Explore our blog and be sure to subscribe to our Action Report newsletter to follow our work this school year. appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I wrote a blog about the evening we evacuated and the next morning when found out our home had been one of the many casualties of the Tubbs Fire. As I reflect on the last 12 months, I feel loss and gratitude. Despite the long drive, my husband and I were determined to keep the kids at their K-8 bilingual immersion public school.

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