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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

ED Surge

At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. But teachers rarely share with students where these materials come from.

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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?

ED Surge

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. To learn more about UNIVERSE by ViewSonic and how it can help support your teaching and learning needs, you can schedule a demo with a solution expert here.

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The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse

The Hechinger Report

Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “I can’t be mad that the opportunities are different,” he said, “because it’s out of my control. It’s just the way society is.” Patrick Ben III at the Bruce D. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Coding outside the lines: CoderDojos get kids psyched about programming by turning them loose

The Hechinger Report

The director of information systems for Madagascar’s Ministry of Culture, Andry Ravololonjatovo, also serves as the communications officer for the “CoderBus” initiative. Who wants to do the first demo?”. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Let’s see who’s ready, and we’ll get started,” Yang called out.

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OPINION: Confessions of a white teacher in an urban school

The Hechinger Report

No demo lesson, no series of interviews. I was horrified at my complete lack of cultural knowledge, and what felt like an untenable error on my part. I learned about their cultures and stopped asking them to break their cultural norms to match my own. They would always look down, and I couldn’t understand why.

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Arkansas schools hire untrained teachers as people lose interest in the profession

The Hechinger Report

I’ve done demos before. You’re taught really about cultural competencies. Turns out they don’t just love science like she does. It’s kind of hard to please this age group,” she says. And so far, she says, the students’ grades show they’re not quite with her. “I I have incorporated videos. We’ve done labs. It affects teaching quality.

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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

ED Surge

She’s a champion of a model of education that favors students reading classical texts and otherwise focusing on the traditional canons of arts, literature and culture. EdSurge: So you saw some demos of this VR school with their sixth graders and eighth graders. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity.