Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

The answer(s) may have implications for designing new edtech tools—and VR technology intended to be used beyond the classroom, too. As a student acts and speaks, his or her avatar will perform in front of a virtual audience, but other humans in the room won’t see the virtual theater that the student sees. To immerse, or not to immerse?

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of edtech, I often think about the implications of AI on teaching and learning, especially as I experiment with implementing various practices and approaches with the pre-service educators I teach. Can these tools make us more human, not less? (if AI can do all of this.)

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you think of culturally responsive teaching, you may not immediately think of dopamine and oxytocin. The brain is a learning machine” according to Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , who is on a mission to educate educators about the neuroscience behind culturally responsive teaching (CRT). “The

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the report “Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID,” Justin Reich and Jal Mehta consider that one of education’s biggest challenges in the years ahead will be to harness “the experience and urgency for change” and apply that energy to the sustained improvement of schools.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In collaboration with EdSurge, Northern Ignite hosted an event with 700 attendees at Ramapo College that exposed educators to both the edtech and edtech venture capital worlds. While financial resources are not yet available, there is committed human capital to keep them going.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

But Jeff Bezos is known for playing the long game, and public education is very much part of it, opines Dominik Dresel, a school administrator and edtech entrepreneur. “I The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global by Betsy Corcoran Braced for the next wave of edtech? We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Latinos who work in education are ready for change , and they say their culture already holds dear values like community-building and generosity that are needed to improve education for their students. Read the first part here.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture. They are meaningful, in and of themselves.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is the third in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Before we get into the educator perspectives shared below, there’s something I have to explain about Latino culture. Bartleby is a human man and clerk hired by the story’s narrator, a lawyer. Here’s what they had to say. ‘No.’

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. At least, in theory. She calls it the Eduverse.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials. Can Students Create VR?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

One key and solvable challenge is for solutions to be informed by the cultural and contextual expertise of the communities in which they’re implemented. One consideration is that BIPOC solution providers and developers likely possess deep community and cultural expertise but often lack the necessary access to share their solutions.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Which strategies and tools can ground our work in equity, increase edtech efficacy, and develop stronger networks? Discussions on edtech efficacy. EDTECH EFFICACY. southjoseph just shared that the average school district uses 500 edtech products according to data from @LearnTrials #edclusters18 pic.twitter.com/R4mDEa1irU.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

The venue was the Teacher Tech Summit, a two-day virtual event last month run by T4 Education, and co-hosted with the World Bank and the edtech investment firm Owl Ventures. And that’s worse than the humanities, English and finance degrees in the U.K. A university is also the best place to acquire social and cultural capital.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Some edtech companies are turning their efforts to mental health, and mental health tech is turning its attention to students. If you want to help to support this culture of care for all students, trying to do that without engaging the families feels like another missed opportunity,” Cipriano says.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes resources all about building and maintaining a culture of collective efficacy, student empathy, and teacher sustainability. Here are 3 actions that help cultivate a culture of collective efficacy. Read more at ASCD: Three Actions for Building a Culture of Collective Ef?cacy.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How do you build a culture of trust for teachers using video? You spoke in your book, Adam, Evidence of Practice, about building that culture of trust. Can you share with our listeners some of your strategies for building this culture over time? Adam Geller: Aren’t we supposed to be thoughtful about how humans learn?”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Why has it been a challenge for edtech companies to deliver effective solutions? That involves understanding the learner's cognitive style, their cultural background and even their emotional state or sentiment. There's also the challenge of ensuring that technology augments the human element in education rather than replacing it.

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