Edthena

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These informal gatherings include hands-on experimentation and demos, equipping teachers with practical AI skills they can bring back to their classrooms. Collaborative EdCamp Pop-Ups. Monthly EdCamp-style sessions bring educators together to share AI insights and best practices. AI Champions Leading the Charge.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

EdSurge recently sat down with the developers of the tool, custom-made for the district by Boston-based AI company AllHere, for a demo, to try to find out. For instance, in a demo for EdSurge, Toby Jackson, chief technology officer at AllHere, showed a sample Ed dashboard screen for a simulated account of a student named “Alberto.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Instead of teaching specific facts and skills, teach timeless skills that allow students to adapt to any challenge or solve any problem. Instead of teaching specific facts and skills, teach timeless skills that allow students to adapt to any challenge or solve any problem. The answer lies in zooming out.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. The tools are coming fast, though.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Soon after, I fell in love with education by volunteering to teach English as a Second Language outside my classes. Upon graduating, I tried to pivot from science and develop some real-world career experience by working in consulting, but I eventually decided to pursue teaching full-time.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

Deepak Cheenath That puts CoCo’s strategies to keep students engaged or motivated to learn at complete odds with what many edtech companies have been trying to do to teach literacy or STEM — mimic online games like Robolox or Minecraft that children spend hours immersed in outside of school. Screenshot of the CoCo demo video.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Integrating technology into the classroom involves more than just adding gadgets and software; it’s about creating a dynamic learning environment where students are actively engaged and teachers can teach more effectively. Vivi made [our technology] rollout unique because they sent us two boxes to demo for eight weeks.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. When Rote Memorization Rules the Day When I started my first tutoring job, I was hardly concerned with the caliber of the content I was teaching. What was I even teaching them?

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ED Surge

APRIL 16, 2024

In her testing of the device, she said she felt truly immersed in a demo that allowed users to appear to walk among dinosaurs. But basically you'd be watching an Imax movie,” she said of the device’s strengths. And for education, we need more. We need interactivity.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Watch this video to see what teaching and learning in UNIVERSE looks like! EdSurge: How did your teaching journey lead you to try UNIVERSE with your college students? How did I teach Arabic when I had no clue what the individual letters even looked like? Who’s going to teach them? My advice is to be open-minded.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

Most of those lessons, they say, center on a factor that is more difficult than many people realize: the challenges of corralling and safeguarding data.

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Edthena

MARCH 18, 2022

The] AI coach platform allows all teachers access to support on demand self-analysis as well as actionable advice on how to improve teaching effectiveness. The AI Coach platform is a new reality for how teachers can use video of their own teaching practice to increase their effectiveness, guided by a virtual coach. Have a listen.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Whether through Pinterest boards, YouTube lesson demos, or conversations with colleagues in the faculty lounge, I find myself and my fellow teachers increasingly turning to informal, unconventional methods to develop and hone our craft.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Justin Hall, who teaches math at Rancho Cucamonga Middle School , understands this need well. Watch a short demo video to see how an intuitive interface saves educators time. All of us need to use our time as wisely as possible. If we communicate efficiently and regularly, we can meet that goal. Recommended Resources.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Yes, we were actually able to demo K16 Solutions before making a decision about our LMS transition. Their ability to migrate the more challenging course shells was key, especially for our faculty who teach hybrid or only in-person courses, equating to much more content. K16 was incredibly helpful in meeting our deadlines.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

EdSurge: So you saw some demos of this VR school with their sixth graders and eighth graders. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, or use the player on this page. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. What did the VR classroom look like?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. I’ve done demos before. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA.

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Dr. Preece

MAY 31, 2024

Colleagues new to it might want to look back at this blog piece on how I teach using earth.nullschool , or this guide to the IPCC’s AR6 release that gives some further context. The atmosphere was incredible for a half-term event, and such a pleasure to meet so many great people and hear such enthusiasm for teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

IEI learner dashboard demo Where does datacasting fit on the road to universal broadband? Up to eight people in a home can use the Eddie. More powerful versions called Edwards are available for school buildings and incarceration facilities and can serve thousands concurrently.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This newfound mobility allows teachers the freedom to interact with students on a more personal level by teaching alongside them while remaining in control of the classroom display through wireless screen sharing. Select the right participants: Include a mix of teachers with varying technology skills, teaching styles and experience.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 7, 2024

He currently teaches an advanced apprenticeship in Campaigning, Leadership and Management for Britain’s biggest trade union. Yet there are still too few opportunities for people to develop practical political understanding, strategies, and skills – unlike business, the biggest subject in higher education and online.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

These things “just reminded me of what I already knew about the politics of education and the lack of resources in low-income communities when it comes to schools,” said Ben, now 22 and about to graduate and go back to Chicago to teach while pursuing a master’s degree. “I It’s just the way society is.” Patrick Ben III at the Bruce D.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2020

Like these society-transforming innovations, when they first emerge, new approaches to teaching and learning often make us wonder, “What is it?” When schools interview a candidate for a teaching position, they ask for a lesson plan that makes clear what the teacher is doing in a demo lesson and why. and “Why would I want it?”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

If you are a district admin and would like to book a demo, click here. Recommended Resources: Teachers can get started by creating a free Prodigy account here. Learn more about how Prodigy can boost student achievement here. Two Research Studies Show Positives of Prodigy Math. What Do Students Really Think of Prodigy?

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Dr. Preece

JULY 29, 2023

Good for: Outstanding resource for subject knowledge development for teachers of all levels thinking about climate change teaching. You can access the hub here: [link] with guidance, and demos for those who want to incorporate some of this work in to teaching. They may also want to consolidate in other areas (e.g.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

See a prototype demo of the solution! Technology will never replace great teaching. Learn how districts are employing a design-thinking Challenge Collaborative model to create, pilot, and scale a solution to address shared real-world learning needs within their local context. Learner Variability: Why Research Says It Matters.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

Rather than teach a specific programming curriculum, the overarching goal of CoderDojo is to spark a passion for coding. They called it a dojo (the term for a Japanese martial-arts training center) to indicate it was a place for learning but distinct from a school with grades, tests, and regimented teaching.

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Dr. Preece

APRIL 20, 2024

So thank you, Emily – not just for the demo of tools, but also the reminder to challenge my own cynicism at times! Well earned dinner on the Friday night for the presentation team, and it’s always great to talk to colleagues about what we’re doing in Teach First’s training programme and how we can learn from others.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Sure, virtual coaching has made it easy to watch teaching videos and efficiently give feedback. For example, record a PD session you’re leading or record a demo lesson as ways to show how you use video to get better at your own practice. Get to know the teachers you support for instructional coaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

Her tone had the don’t-mess-with-me authority of a 25-year teaching veteran, and, even while chatting with a visiting reporter, Paulk’s gaze never left her students. When I was studying to be a teacher, my student teaching lasted just one week.”. Related: What happens when teachers spend more time in a classroom — before teaching ?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

My first year of teaching, I did almost everything wrong. In the 1995 movie, Pfeiffer plays urban high school teacher LouAnne Johnson , who breezes into class and finds what makes her urban students tick by teaching them karate. No demo lesson, no series of interviews. I told my father that I could teach anywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

But my hope is that in the pathways courses we’re teaching them to love learning. He was accepted as an early-decision applicant into the music studies program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which offers a direct pathway to a Masters of Music Education and a teaching license.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. Artificial intelligence will supply every student on the planet a talented personal tutor and every teacher an amazing teaching assistant, Khan has said. Because we all wish we had magical tools to make [teaching] easier.”

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