ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2022

Faculty members who have been teaching seminars face-to-face for years, encouraging peer-to-peer interaction, animating engagement and debate may not find the shift online as intuitive when facing a screen. Not every instructor is adept at translating what works face to face to remote instruction.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In a few minutes, I would be arriving on Dongmen Island with a group of strangers to collaborate on an educational program called by its conveners “ a summer utopia with humanistic knowledge.” They draw a diverse student body in terms of ages, places of origin, and education levels. A student could easily fetch a bottle.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

The introduction of generative AI into society shines a bright spotlight on these educators. So education leaders are investing in new training and professional development for teachers on the best use cases for AI. Educators may find their assignments and assessments become obsolete quickly,” he says.

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

They were acquainted with critical thinking; they’d engaged in source analysis and even participated in Socratic Seminars. I had students complete a similar task: Create an educational video/skit answering the compelling question: “ How can images control a society? I had a compelling question.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” A similar proportion receive special education services, on par with the statewide average for high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Lawrence Seaway remade our region, a liberal arts education is transformational to a student’s intellect. These are questions of a sort every thinking person confronts every day. My students were starting to figure things out, using their critical thinking skills. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Instead, they’re working, socializing or partying and, as a result, show limited gains in critical thinking — the hallmark of American higher education. Between us, we’ve been covering higher education for years. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment. 6; Love, 2019). than to disclose their perspective on abortion.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and students critical of Israel’s war on Gaza face censorship, harassment, and dismissal. An anthropologist who researches coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians argues such critics need more than free speech protections. Criticizing Israel is risky business in academia.

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