Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 16, 2020

Traditional approaches where students listen, take notes, memorize and regurgitate on a test are no longer a viable means of preparation for our ever-changing world. On the flip side, only 18% of parents ranked memorizing facts and definitions as very important. Sometimes educational technology can be a Wolf in Sheeps Clothing.

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ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2024

Initially, whenever individual students ran into emotional outbursts, I tried traditional methods like distributing worksheets focused on mental health and wellness. However, these worksheets merely listed definitions and coping mechanisms without providing engaging content or opportunities for meaningful discussion.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world. Yes, I definitely want that.’ That is exciting, but it also has a lot of things to keep in consideration. Do you want that?’

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

“We do have many bilingual students who just don’t envision themselves being a bilingual teacher, and that’s where bilingual education has an opportunity to expand on the knowledge and assets that students have,” Cervantes-González says, “so that they see it as an opportunity and not a barrier to apply their language in a school setting.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

You definitely have this tension between this hybrid vision not too far in the future—and all of this messy reality,” Garrett says. Some COOs who responded to the survey expressed worry that students may seek online learning because they believe those courses are easier than traditional, face-to-face courses.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

He suggested that instead of changing traditional school systems, guidelines and practices, I should be working toward helping students learn how to be successful within the current school environment. When he first entered middle school, John was used to a more traditional learning environment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I DeVonté Trask, 11.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Over the past decade, CTE schools have transformed into education spaces that commit to giving students a comprehensive experience that prepares them for the workforce, helping them cultivate strong skills in their chosen career path. Can students apply the facts, definitions and key concepts they’ve learned to a project?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. The credentialing world has grown significantly in the last few years , resulting in an evolving and sometimes undefined digital education model.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 13, 2020

There are many opinions about the effectiveness of educational technology to improve learning. Others believe that there is an EdTech tool out there that is going to solve all of our problems in education. Neither of these approaches is the correct approach when considering using technology to improve learning.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I think there are a lot of tech companies that are purely online—everyone from Zoom to Coursera—[and they] are definitely suffering because when there is the offline option, then there's always going to be kind of a shift back to that when it becomes available, which is obviously what's happened post-pandemic. You chose to move into the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2023

Differentiation plays a role in the definition of personalized learning as well. Zareen Poonen Levien, the director of digital learning at San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), suggests that technology can be leveraged to fully engage a student to give them choice and creativity.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” That’s definitely a barrier.” and between the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

“Using Basecamp software has pushed my accelerated students more than I expected, because they have so much to grab onto, more than I could ever provide in a traditional classroom.”. It’s definitely been hard for them,” Kaswell said. Related: Opinion: ‘I spend half my days in accelerated classes and the other half in special ed’.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It definitely made things worse,” he says. What’s the right kind of school for students suffering from anxiety? It’s complicated. For Bradley, doing virtual school during the pandemic certainly deepened his sense of isolation. “It He wasn’t leaving the house much and became a shut in, he says.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2022

He is the creator and host of a long-running preschool series of his own, called " Danny Joe’s Tree House ,” and he says he’s trying to make something in the tradition of “Mr. But there were definitely moments where my family needed some backup. Danny LaBrecque has been digging into those questions lately.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is undoubtedly an artifact of traditional grading systems: They encourage a one-and-done approach that penalizes taking time to learn. There are a huge variety of board games out there, ranging from traditional and familiar (Monopoly, chess) to much more interesting modern designs ( Catan , Ticket to Ride , Wingspan ).

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I'm an educator. I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. My focus is on charter schools, multiliteracies and school librarianship. That's what I do. So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It definitely can come from degrees. And a lot of the jobs that we have today [that require a traditional college degree] aren't going to be here tomorrow. Technology is statistically becoming a bigger and bigger part of today's society as we speak. With that I also understand that education is important.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Broadening the Definition of and Measurement of Impact: Like most BIPOC solution providers, BIPOC solution providers design products and programs to meet traditional standards and metrics that demonstrate solution impact. Their understanding of excluded students' authentic experiences drives meaningful, resonating change.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

It’s something that the California-based educator at MiraCosta College, who also goes by the moniker Homegirl Doctora, says often chafes against more rigid, traditional campus culture. La Chola Conference's flyer features the characteristic chola art style. EdSurge: How would you define what a chola is?

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

We definitely know that we have to make these courses shorter,” agrees Rene Kizilcec, director of the Future of Learning Lab at Cornell University, who’s studied online student behavior closely. You can’t expect the traditional, residential college to take care of that,” says Kizilcec. The year of the MOOC may be long over.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

They're definitely still there,” says Melissa Mister, chief of strategy and staff for After School Matters. The best after-school programs, advocates say, involve partnerships with community-based organizations and do not mimic the routine and structure of a traditional classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Indeed, despite the buzz around personalized learning, there’s no simple recipe for success, and the common ingredients — such as adaptive-learning technology and student control over learning — can backfire if poorly implemented. My son comes home so excited when he passes a focus area,” Swift wrote in an email.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Nearly half of American adults consider themselves underemployed and underpaid or not fulfilling their potential, according to a survey by the educational technology company Jenzabar. But Americans are also frustrated with the training and education that’s available to them to get new work.

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ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

Though my essay didn’t provide definitive answers to these questions, it helped create space for me to think through them and it prompted r powerful conversations with friends and strangers alike. Some asked questions about how to reimagine the traditional and alternative structures of teaching and learning environments.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One such proposal is to bring data science into high school math curriculum while deemphasizing more-traditional math pathways. We could create a culture around mathematics where mistakes are magic because mistakes are definitely how you learn.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

The conference comes at a time when there is so little direction from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that her name rarely came up, although the travails of President Donald Trump certainly did. Related: Betsy DeVos likens education technology to letting a thousand flowers bloom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Public Humanities could be a gathering place to explore how those definitional differences are perhaps creating barriers and challenges to good conversations that we might have elsewhere, he says. We were really determined to have a place that took these conversations into the heart of traditional academia, Bulaitis says.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, if Upwards notices employees are calling off work to care for their children, they may recommend providing backup care credits to allow families to find providers at non-traditional hours. “By I definitely think there’s a role for businesses to play, and it’s in their best interest that we don’t have a child care crisis. …

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