ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. He has long argued that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Credit: Image provided by Aimee Hollander.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Embedding new words into classroom conversations and assignments pegged to topics teens care about. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. On Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday , the math, social studies, and science teachers implement activities provided for them.

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

See my first post on The Building Blocks of Inquiry here If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. If you can, embrace them!

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C3 Teachers

JUNE 6, 2024

If you made a list of the top 10 challenges social studies teachers would say they face in the classroom, you may get the list of usual suspects: lack of time, political squabbles over standards, trying to cover all of human history in a semester. The point is, controversial topics WILL make it into your classroom.

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