ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cognitive engagement: Encouraged students to think deeply about the content. Problem-solving and critical thinning: Encouraged problem-solving and critical thinking. Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed. What might educators glean from the findings?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

Direct instruction plays an important role in explicitly teaching skills students need to successfully explore learning on their own. Research suggests that student outcomes can improve when direct instruction is combined with opportunities for practice paired with timely feedback.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While mastering technical skills is essential, students must also develop soft skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking to thrive beyond the classroom. In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

They can start with mastering spreadsheets, coding languages like Python or teaching students to use AI chatbots. No school leader should think they have to do everything all at once. It is completely OK to take small, entry-level steps to begin to prepare everyone for the broader technology landscape, Drozda offers.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. Many are unaware that teaching online can actually open new possibilities to innovate their teaching practice.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

Affinity groups have the power to strengthen the voices of our students and help them think critically about the world, their experiences and their education. Our educational systems are built on antiquated systems that unfairly and incorrectly position whiteness and heterosexuality as the norm.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They do this by mapping courses and activities to institutional competencies: critical thinking, analytical thinking, communication, social awareness and responsibility, creativity and innovation, and leadership and collaboration. “We

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Her response stunned me, not just because she had yelled, but because of who she wasa student who had been a leader in my classroom, someone with whom I had built a strong relationship through teaching art the previous year. Then, I walked back inside and continued teaching. For weeks, I couldnt stop thinking about her reaction.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Much uncertainty exists about what AI is, how it works and its implications for students, families, educators and the broader school community. School and district leaders have shared challenges that they are facing regarding the use of AI for teaching and learning. What Is AI Literacy?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Baldwin school district is also teaching students not to take everything they see on social media at face value. Those questions that kids ask, and their ability to think through those questions, their ability to think about whether something seems feasible, seems likely that's all critical thinking.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

He identifies two significant facets, with the first revolving around using AI as a tool to enhance learning, emphasizing personalized education and support. The second dimension pertains to teaching young individuals how to harness AI for their future careers, leadership roles and learning opportunities.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The tutor, which Kestin calls “PS2 Pal,” after the Physical Sciences 2 class he teaches, was told to only give away one step at a time and not to divulge the full solution in a single message. PS2 Pal was also instructed to encourage students to think and give it a try themselves before revealing the answer.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

For instance, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving are difficult to assess with a standardized test. Most schools I know didn’t adopt their learning technology initiatives for the sole purpose of test score improvement. That’s not teaching students ‘grit.’ Related Posts.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

In Secretary Cardona’s vision to elevate the teaching profession, he highlights three priorities: improving teacher pipeline, supporting teacher growth and investing in teacher retention. What this makes abundantly clear is that the future of education depends directly on our commitment to the success of new teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

. “Technology is not bad in general,” she said, “although I would argue for younger children, it’s questionable whether it has benefits.” ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Feelings of AI anxiety are valid for a technology that brings so much change and uncertainty. Instead of teaching specific facts and skills, teach timeless skills that allow students to adapt to any challenge or solve any problem. Teaching students Power Skills now prepares them to succeed and adapt in an uncertain future.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I didn't have any background in games and learning, but I did have a background in curriculum design, school design and educational technology. That school, Quest to Learn , was interesting because it was all about using games in the classroom, really thinking about why games are engaging. So, I joined her team.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says. The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math. Barclay says. But that wasn’t immediately clear.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Through our Qualcomm Wireless Reach Initiative, we work closely with partners to collaborate and identify local schools that need high-quality technology with the goal of bringing in connected solutions to drastically improve teaching and learning outcomes. Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

STEM education is not just about science and math; it develops skills such as creativity, communication, empathy and critical thinking that complement technologies like generative AI and coding. As the demand for digital skills grows, schools must develop inclusive programs to engage diverse learners.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. math teaching predominantly focused on procedural skills, where students spent most of their time acquiring isolated skills through repetition.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Gerstein teaches gifted education at a Title 1 school within Santa Fe Public Schools and graduate-level online courses for Walden and Antioch Universities. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom? Brandon Taylor I am learning how to teach AI together with students.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2022

When I think of Jonathan Haber, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack last week, those are the first words that come to mind. Jonathan, who wrote columns for EdSurge among his many pursuits, was a wonderful thinker, in education and in life. Jonathan returned the volley in like fashion, with full respect for their points of view.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Creative thinking leads the list, followed by analytical or critical thinking. The third most important skill is technological literacy, which includes AI and other technologies. It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. There wasn't suddenly a massive decline in critical thinking,” Caulfield says. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We had been here before in the ’90s when we were all but certain that internet search engines had entirely ruined higher education. Despite those first days of insecurity, we decided to teach ourselves to lean in to technology rather than distance ourselves from it.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Scheduling, and Breaks For some professors, the key technology to update the oral exam is a tool that has become commonplace since the pandemic: Zoom, or other video software. That’s been the case for Huihui Qi, an associate teaching professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California at San Diego.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. The rubric includes a total of six indicators of impactful technology use. West Virginia Department of Education. National Education Association.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And research shows that peer reviews build community among students and help them develop critical thinking and communication skills. She teaches students to be more inclusive by making their creations accessible to those who are differently abled. What creative skills are employers looking for?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. Teaching, Brown thought, offered him an opportunity to continue to learn and talk about history and government every day while paying forward the passion that was imbued in him at any early age. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right.

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