ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. No matter what, the thoughts need to start with the human user and end with the human user,” she stresses. Stuff before involved humans and was static.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

However, such turns of phrase often betray a tendency to think of “computers” and of “LOGO” as agents that act directly on thinking and learning; they betray a tendency to reduce what are really the most important components of educational situations — people and cultures — to a secondary, facilitating role.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

In my classroom, I treat students as humans first, not obstacles to classroom management. I would have felt like my autonomy and humanity were being honored because I would get to advocate for not only the student but myself. We will also let each other down, but we are in the work of being openly human all the time, and that’s okay.

Humanities 128

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative?

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. I wanted to grow.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cultivating a Culture One day during my English class, Khalil, one of my sixth grade students, created a live soundtrack to accompany my lesson on mentor sentences. The combination of our classroom culture and reading growth achievement earned our class the 2018 Southwest Ohio Teach For America Classroom of the Year Award.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

I want you to remember that there are humans behind these stories. Instead, we melded into a distinct culture through the sugar plantation experience of our great-grandparents , with each ethnic community retaining its identity and cohesion and resisting the pressure to completely lose either through assimilation.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

In “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding-Glass Doors,” Rudine Sims Bishop proposes that educators consider the relationship between reader and texts as possible "mirrors" and "windows," highlighting reader identities and experiences through critical discovery.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the number of Latine students increases in my school, it’s important that we humanize the migrant experience so that we can redefine the American Dream for students today. Students want to be connected, cultured and aware of the realities beyond the classroom. This student's perception is slightly exaggerated, but I get it.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Due to our cultural stereotypes about who is naturally gifted in math, the students most likely to “choke” under pressure are talented girls and students of color. This problem is highly intransigent because it is largely based on cultural stereotypes that are passed from adults to children and are difficult to change.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. One possible answer is investing in more inclusive partnerships.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. In this sense, culture transcends race and includes age, religion, and class, to name a few. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For example, if you're looking at a discussion forum, and you want to mark posts as on topic or off topic, says Pardos, it previously took much more time and effort to have a human researcher follow a rubric to tag such posts, or to train an older type of computer system to classify the material.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. Finding a Balance Writing centers need to find a balance between introducing AI into the writing process and keeping the human support that every writer needs, argues Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

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. They cite projects that their collaborators have worked on that teach about the Holocaust and about a community of women in South Korea trying to preserve their culture.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly. For example, with communication between Human Resources and Finance, they are able to coordinate a quicker backfill strategy, decreasing the time and resources it would take if planning strategies were not set in place.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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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.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. But human brains are not like that. So the more we can bring the body into learning, the better.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist at UC Irvine. She’s been sharing her observations with EdSurge readers for nearly a decade now, reflecting on young people’s interest-driven and playful engagements as they relate to education. It doesn't have to be building a whole new school or remaking your curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Ian Fairhurst, who integrates educational technology into grades K-6 at Knox Grammar Prep, showed a session participant how to use a VR headset at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia. The technology can also show students the effects the changing climate is having on human society. Megan Conn/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2023

One student candidly shared that he felt like his teachers weren’t invested in him as a human being, because the amount of homework that he was assigned didn't take into account his commitments outside the classroom and other barriers to studying.

Professional Development 120

Professional Development Humanities Leadership Cultures 120

ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

The educational climate is rapidly deteriorating, the ripples of which we have yet to fully feel. Burnout now dominates cultural conversations around school and work. Education is a human service: it’s about putting others first. Educators are expected to improve standardized test scores and get students “back on track.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. King, Ph.D.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

Evidence abounds that children and teens are more successful when they have warm, caring relationships with educators and peers; instruction in building important life skills; and a sense of belonging in school. Now more than ever, schools must embrace the human-centric opportunities of SEL and reject false and frenzied challenges.

Humanities 136

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

He’s not really about equity work, look at the culture he’s created. This sense of safety can also contribute to a culture of freedom and autonomy, which can motivate individuals and teams to do their absolute best and ultimately, lead to commitment. I was starting to believe these things.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

AI should be a catalyst for a conversation about what skills should remain uniquely human versus those that technology could take over. We should make that determination by seeking to understand how AI can help us be better humans. Humans excel at discernment, judgment, humor, civility and creativity.

Humanities 105

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

While standardized academic assessments may provide some insight on where a student is academically, these assessments just don't show the full picture of how a human develops. Codifying self-love and identifying ways to capture growth is key for student progress.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Some schools have gotten creative to ensure they have enough teachers, says April Salerno, associate professor of education at the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development. They will partner teachers together so that one is teaching in English and one is teaching in the other language,” she says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In schools, creativity can be harder to imagine in core subject areas like math and easier to associate with humanities and arts. Creativity needs to be embedded in everything we do with students; it needs to be part of the school culture. Sir Ken Robinson says, “Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I'm a human being. I'm a human being that sometimes needs to eat food and go to the bathroom when I want to,” she says. Yes, we're working hard and we're here for our students, but we also are human beings, and so setting those boundaries, I think, is also really important.” Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year.

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