ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Yet, many of the traditional strategies employed, while absolutely essential to professional growth, can be cumbersome and disruptive for teachers, their students and even those responsible for offering support. Improved methods of new teacher support Providing adequate support for new teachers has long been a top priority for schools.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. McWilliams, of ETS, says she’s had a “mindset shift” in the past year about how she thinks about AI in testing.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. It encouraged teachers to design learning experiences that engaged students in meaningful mathematical thinking and problem-solving. And that's how people learn math.

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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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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. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool.

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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Creativity encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, iteration, collaboration and making deep connections in students’ learning material. During the pandemic, she saw creativity pushed away as schools scrambled to get the traditional core content out to students.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2023

creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, resiliency) and crosses multiple disciplines (e.g. art, design, technology, sound/music, project management). And, regrettably, when it comes to education, they remain constrained by tradition. coding) and soft skills (e.g.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

She supports students in exploring their gifts and interests through projects and encourages educators to start by substituting a traditional assignment with an opportunity to create. And research shows that peer reviews build community among students and help them develop critical thinking and communication skills.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A 2019 Gallup report found that educators who focus on creativity and use technology in transformative ways see significant gains — students are more engaged, demonstrate better critical thinking, retain more, make connections between subjects and achieve deeper learning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Compared to a traditional essay assignment, Carlson believes that the approach makes it harder for students to cheat using ChatGPT or other AI tools. What Qi has come to value most from oral exams is that she feels it can be a powerful opportunity to teach students how to think like an engineer.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Deploying these tools in that way assumes that quick, iterative feedback drives critical thinking — when what students really need are deep conversations that will pull them in unexpected directions, Aguilar says. These days, Kohn thinks of a chatbot as a sort of a TA-plus.

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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. It ends up pressuring teachers to force students to stay on track with a generic schedule rather than engage students in critical thinking, which takes time. Barclay says. isn’t working.

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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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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 16, 2020

Traditional approaches where students listen, take notes, memorize and regurgitate on a test are no longer a viable means of preparation for our ever-changing world. Sometimes educational technology can be a Wolf in Sheeps Clothing. We are not teachers, we are designers of learning environments. Content should no longer be king.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Issuing a 30-year bond to finance a new school building makes sense, says Ross Rubenstein, a professor at Georgia State University who specializes in public finance and education policy. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. That’s what I think technology can do.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The energy at the ASU+GSV Education Technology Summit among the entrepreneurs, educators, investors, and talent managers is palpable. With new technology coming to market at exponential speeds, it’s no longer about teaching workers specific technologies. Check out BrainQuake and Core Skills Mastery as examples.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. Beyond that, creative writing fosters critical thinking skills , helps students generate diverse ideas , and improves mental health.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

While our curriculum is traditional in the sense that it must follow the common core standards, the delivery is very different. What stood out was that our middle and high school students achieved significant growth in 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking, reasoning, problem-solving and communication.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2024

Spoon has found that the changes also allow her to hold students to a higher standard when it comes to explaining the math concepts, an approach that’s informed by pushes for more focus on critical thinking in classrooms. Not long after, Spoon started changing up how she handled quizzes in a calculus class she taught.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Creating space to critically examine the complexity and context of these stories provide students with critical thinking opportunities and adds a human dimension to science where students can find connections and inspiration.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Humanities Teaching 101

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

CoolThink is a milestone in STEM education in Hong Kong, providing a comprehensive and proven framework for computational thinking and coding education. For example, one of our students did not excel in the traditional curriculum despite being very creative and logical.

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Pedagogy Professional Development Critical Thinking Teaching 107

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What if you want to see what your students are doing on those screens in the traditional classroom? Providing opportunities to think laterally and linearly helps learners progress to the next steps in their learning. In a typical setting, we can move around our classroom. But what about in a remote or hybrid environment?

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Library Education EdTech Critical Thinking 104

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. You are still a thinking and feeling human being! You should never give up your voice and replace it with AI.

Education 98

Education Middle School Critical Thinking Teaching 98

Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 13, 2020

There are many opinions about the effectiveness of educational technology to improve learning. Others believe that there is an EdTech tool out there that is going to solve all of our problems in education. Neither of these approaches is the correct approach when considering using technology to improve learning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The traditional resume? And education institutions likely would need to be able to explain how their programs prepare students for a skills-based employment system. He thinks a new system is needed. One that hits a sweet spot, blending the rigor of traditional research methods with the convenience of modern technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching. schools spend more than $10 billion a year on educational technology. Now, with New York Gov.

K-12 142

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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. Also, look for a curriculum that encourages critical thinking.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Higher education marketers moved more and more of our strategy toward paid social media marketing. Enrollment marketers piggybacked on the traditional practice from our colleagues in admissions of buying lists of names of students who have taken the ACT and SAT. And the price for this marketing utopia?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

She sees TikTok as the latest in a long tradition of professors using popular culture and youth culture to connect with students. “If “I showed a compilation of TikToks of Black mothers showing their Black daughters the trailer for the new ‘Little Mermaid’ movie which has Halle Bailey in it,” she says. “I

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2025

For example, instead of saying they took a speech class, they can break down the specific skills they learned or had to use, such as public speaking, critical thinking and research. It also allows learners to pause and restart their learning journey, providing flexibility that traditional pathways often lack.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What we think the purpose of a university is, and this will get to why I'm doing this project now, is to give human beings the ability to better understand themselves and the world. So to develop what we commonly think of as critical thinking or critical capacities. Your model has other differences as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2025

The education technology industry has already witnessed firsthand how AI helps teachers and engages students in ways that make learning more personalized. competitive globally, investing in AI literacy across K-12 education is essential especially for workforce preparation. Thats why, to keep the U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That has been the more traditional way of dealing with this ‘problem’ of there being students in our classrooms who are not English speakers. So the reason bilingual education is really used by communities in order to counter that is because these programs are what's called additive programs.

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