ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

They can start with mastering spreadsheets, coding languages like Python or teaching students to use AI chatbots. Try two weeks on a concept in mathematics, try this data set to cover the existing unit you already have on ecosystems in biology, teach the booms and busts of economics through data from the Federal Reserve.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

The next step for school leaders is to focus on purchasing edtech strategically, ensuring that these tools genuinely make a positive difference in teaching and learning. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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ED Surge

APRIL 6, 2022

While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. Observers of the space, for instance, have long noted that teachers are often excluded from edtech procurement , as are higher ed faculty and staff. during a panel at ASU-GSV on Monday.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

When teachers pack up their classrooms for the last time to start their edtech careers, where exactly are they going? Former educators told us they had moved on to become UX designers, part of sales teams and founders of their own edtech companies. Edtech is not going to be the solution for every teacher,” she says.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 26, 2022

That's why she uses edtech tools in the classroom to provide a safe space where she can encourage all types of learners to contribute. Roshan recently shared her ideas about how to use edtech to engage introverted learners in a TED-Ed Educator Talk. When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Edtech and Professional Development.

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Edthena

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many educators have heard of culturally responsive teaching, but do they really know what that entails? Culturally responsive teaching is a framework and approach for how to teach. So, what is culturally responsive teaching? Culturally responsive teaching accelerates student achievement.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

By my second year of teaching through the pandemic, despite my best efforts to remain optimistic, I could not shake the feeling that the education system was taking a turn for the worse. Our world seems so siloed from other professional settings, with specific language, practices and culture. That could not be further from the truth.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Sustainable change relies on understanding people, culture, and processes. Tools for Teaching Wordle : create beautiful word clouds quickly and easily. EdTech Tools for Administrators Facebook : Create an information hub for your building that can quickly and easily get important information in the hands of your stakeholders.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Impossibility of EdTech To my school’s credit, they knew there was a problem. While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. Edtech has a product that takes care of it for you.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

and begun to collaboratively change the culture of my school. The other day I was talking to a friend of mine who teaches in another part of New Jersey. Here is a great example.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Leaders must begin to transform school culture in ways where there are actually fundamental changes in teaching and learning so that technology is not just a gimmick or tool used to engage students. Pedagogy first, technology second when appropriate.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

Teaching will and must be different. Most of all, the learning culture will most certainly be different, and it will be a travesty if it is not. Now is the time to seize on lessons learned as schools prepare to move into uncharted territory whether the COVID19 rages on or begins to subside. Leadership must and will be different.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. One lesson we’ve learned is that the current wave of AI-powered edtech is not all that different from the products and programs we are used to. The most critical factor in selecting edtech is its evidence base.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of curriculum mandates, IEP or 504 modifications and state testing requirements, I implore you—each of my colleagues in edtech proffering your solutions to schools—to begin conversations by asking teachers what they need.

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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. Two current efforts designed by academics for use in teaching draw on extended reality tools that invite users to actively participate in scenes from works like “Romeo and Juliet.”

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you think of culturally responsive teaching, you may not immediately think of dopamine and oxytocin. But the brain chemicals have a lot to do with the framework and approach to teaching. Knowing the brain science behind culture’s role in learning is immensely important for teachers who want to prioritize CRT.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The experiences focus on global and cultural competencies, health and wellness, leadership, research, creative and scholarly activities, and service learning and civic engagement. Communication is vital to creating a successful program.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

During our interview, Nathoo’s 3-year-old son was in the next room taking an Outschool class that uses animal names to teach kids phonics. In another, the instructor uses historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to teach letters of the alphabet—for the letter “f,” the kids discuss Fisk University.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech. “We

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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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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

As educational leaders we should be modeling, supporting, and collaborating with our respective staffs to create a vibrant school culture that fosters risk-taking and innovation. I’ll save my thoughts on organizing a major EdTech event at my school for another day. Thank you to Lisa Nielsen for motivating me to write this post!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ten years ago, Pooja Sankar set out to build an edtech tool that gave shy students superpowers in their college courses. So it seemed like a good time to ask what she learned over the past decade, how COVID has changed teaching and what advice she has for other edtech entrepreneurs. She called her startup Piazza.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

This digital disconnect isnt just a result of outdated systems; its about the complex web of cultural, organizational and infrastructural barriers that leave many institutions data-rich but insight-poor. Institutions struggle with more than just technical challenges; they also face cultural and organizational barriers.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Edtech plays an increasingly important role in the classroom. In addition to driving collaboration and productive social interactions, innovative edtech can enable personalized learning based on a student’s individual SEL needs to support differentiated learning recovery.

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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. The field of AI is the Wild West right now — we’re working it out as we go. I’m not against using AI.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together stakeholders across sectors to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. The post Sparking a Culture of Innovation in Northern New Jersey appeared first on Digital Promise.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. Check out last week’s post here.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Stories about burnout, toxic positivity and putting respect back in the teaching profession were all exceedingly popular. 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 Then, Public Education. It will be big.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It was an example of how in the past few years edtech has been both a success story—allowing schools to keep learning from stalling out during the COVID-19 pandemic—and a spotlight alerting schools to the knotty social challenges confronting them. Superintendents at the panel noted some of those successes.

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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

JUNE 26, 2022

He spotlighted the efforts of La Cañada Unified School District in California, which went beyond teaching against cyberbullying and instead promotes good digital citizenship with a “cyberbuddies” program. If they have a healthy digital culture at home, you have a healthy digital culture at school,” he said.

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Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2022

This past month, we’ve been reading about student voice and edtech choice, both important to intentionally incorporate into your classroom this fall. ” Here are four ways to help student voices lead and shape the classroom culture. 5 questions to choose the right edtech for your classroom. Summer is going by quickly.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed the fundamental organizing structure between teacher and student. The relationship between and among ideas—how do you teach that?” The ideas are moving but not consistently.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What defines an exemplary edtech company that serves K-12 needs? While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment. Why am I doing this? Why is this the answer?

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