ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. At first, I was convinced I found a pedagogy ingrained with Indigenous wisdom that could further decolonize my teaching. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? The short answer: it starts with us.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Black Futures Afrofuturism reimagines Black history through art, music and cultural practices, acknowledging the past, present and future of Blackness. It is all a labor of love an enormous amount of time is put into designing the curriculum, examining pedagogy and making sure that we remain culturally responsive.

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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. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. So, what can be done?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture. She told me that although he enjoyed the new school, it was a culture shock from his previous school. Now, I’m not so sure.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Jeremy Price was curious to see whether new AI chatbots including ChatGPT are biased around issues of race and class. So he devised an unusual experiment to find out.

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Cultures Pedagogy Education Educational Technology 124

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It’s easy to miss the scale of this as an ‘issue’ because unlike assessment, curriculum, teacher pay, class sizes, educational technology, or any other persistently evergreen edu-choke point, equity never stops affecting. The Cultural Effect As a species, we express ourselves through differences.

Education 161

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

Thank you for your work on the front lines to ensure our children and youth’s health and education were sustained throughout this difficult year. As Digital Promise team members who have researched and supported teachers’ use of educational technology, we want to recognize and celebrate your successes.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

This year, our Instructional Technology Initiative (ITI) team sought new ways to engage our students in STEM and digital literacy, specifically to help meet district goals in computer science and digital citizenship. Celebrate and showcase students’ achievements and learning outcomes.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2022

Another thing is that because there's this visual element as well as storytelling through the words and dialogue, I feel it's such a beautiful way to share the emotional context—the cultural context—and to also be playful with the ways that these ideas are communicated. A culture shift?

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Teachers were burnt out, the national turnover rate was high and our school didn’t have the capacity to train staff to facilitate community-building circles and implement socio-emotional pedagogy. Considering these adverse factors, the school leaders decided to invest in our students’ well-being and purchase a packaged curriculum.

EdTech 126

EdTech Humanities Pedagogy Lesson Plan 126

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

Even our pedagogies model this thinking. Take the concept of tech-enhanced learning, for instance, which views digital tools as key to supercharging learning: just integrate a particular technology and off-you-go, soaring up Bloom’s Taxonomy. It’s about better understanding the alchemy of meaningful learning with technology.

EdTech 141

EdTech Cultures Pedagogy Humanities 141

ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. The Science of Reading : Imagine Learning's core, supplemental and intervention products that bridge the gap between pedagogy and classroom instruction. Are they culturally relevant for our kids?

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Encouraging teachers to collaborate, coach and mentor others can also improve climate, culture and retention.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Former educators told us they had moved on to become UX designers, part of sales teams and founders of their own edtech companies. They will need to shape up — or create from scratch — their LinkedIn presence. “The

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EdTech Pedagogy Professional Development Educational Technology 116

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions.

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Cultures Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 129

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Yet, PBL as a pedagogy has seen varied levels of adoption in math classrooms across the United States, with many math teachers falling back on traditional teachings of formulas and procedures. It encouraged teachers to design learning experiences that engaged students in meaningful mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

Education 124

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states. Throughout her career, Swan has been interested in inquiry-based pedagogy, drawing from her experiences as a teacher. She then earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia before joining the faculty at the University of Kentucky.

Social Studies 114

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2022

A teacher that does not have a firm belief in every student’s ability to achieve success cultivates a classroom culture that actively prevents learning—whether that is their conscious intention or not. It means taking the standards-aligned curriculum and shaping it to be culturally relevant for each of your students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 6, 2022

The deepest challenge getting edtech and educators to connect is a cultural one, said Luyen Chou, chief learning officer at 2U, Inc., Morris says taking the gig has allowed him to introduce the educator’s perspective to influential edtech executives who would otherwise probably not get exposed to it.

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EdTech Education Pedagogy Cultures 118

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That mindset reflects a broader cultural anxiety, and when teachers don’t like the subject it hinders student achievement. “I But worse, teachers seem to struggle with the conceptual understanding of math themselves, Baumann adds, pointing back to the broader cultural anxiety and inadequate teacher development.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

They are: Leadership and school culture lay the foundation. Technology must be leveraged and used as an accelerant for student learning. Community collaboration and engagement must be woven into the fabric of a school’s culture. 146), I think that idea gets lost in Chapter 3 amidst all of the technology discussions. .

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Leadership Pedagogy Cultures Research 87

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Solving deep-seated equity challenges in education is complex for a myriad of reasons. 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.

EdTech 104

EdTech Charter School Cultures Pedagogy 104

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s a pendulum swing, that we need to get people back in the classrooms,” says David Rhoads, director of hybrid and emerging pedagogy at Vanguard University in California, who considers himself a proponent of HyFlex teaching. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

teachers are) just learning how to get the technology into their classroom and how to incorporate it with their curriculum so that it's meaningful and embedded. Teaching with Technology. Districts are using technology tools in powerful ways to enhance student learning and engagement. Explore the Challenge Map.

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Education Artifacts EdTech Pedagogy 90

ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

Instead of just aiming to increase the quantity of STEM programs, the field must question how we evaluate the success of a program and redefine what quality STEM education looks like. Young girls need culturally-relevant curricula and programs in their schools and communities that are accessible and affordable.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2022

If they have a healthy digital culture at home, you have a healthy digital culture at school,” he said. Thinking Digital Pedagogy, Not Tech Skills It seems counterintuitive, Culatta said, but new teachers are often the least effective when it comes to using technology in the classroom.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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. As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T.

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Teaching Education K-12 EdTech 120

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

They represent the beautiful diversity of cultures, beliefs, abilities and gifts that come with the knowledge and appreciation of our histories. The “ culture of power ” to keep students obedient - silent and still - is firmly fixed into our students’ perceptions of classroom protocol, yet we know this to be false.

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Public School K-12 Pedagogy Private School 112

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

At the same time, many game-making professionals have grown tired of entertainment-only games and leery of the often toxic culture. What is the right alchemy of pedagogy, subject-matter coverage, assessment and teacher professional development that would ultimately see learning games integrated into schools?

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EdTech Pedagogy Professional Development Tradition 126

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. When Black scholars and innovators are visible to students, more often than not, they are admired as individuals and exceptions to the rule.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The external forces have to do with the conversation that the culture is having about cancellation, about what authors are OK, about what books are OK and what content is OK. And this seeps into the college culture within the context of a classroom. How can educators respond to these changes?

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K-12 Pedagogy History American History 113

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. Teacher candidates at most colleges are not paid when they work in schools as student teachers.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara. It opens with an explanation of its title and its connection to Black culture. The chapters in this anthology illustrate the magic of educators co-creating with students and sharing power to uplift students’ voices.

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History Teaching Sociology Oral History 104

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. As these Harvard training sessions took place, the California State Board of Education finally approved a new framework that sets out to make math more culturally responsive and inquiry-based.

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Social Science Tradition High School Economics 145