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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OCTOBER 25, 2023

As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and online while still preserving the magic of human interaction. Ironically, though, it was the lack of human interaction that became the central issue.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” The more we disclose the use of AI and the purpose, the more we uplift everybody in the conversation,” Dirkin says. “The

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JANUARY 8, 2021

In many cases, she said, “they’re getting an education that’s largely created by a whole other entity that may or may not have good outcomes.”. Educational technology: $16 billion. They spend $16 billion annually on educational technology , projected to rise to $20 billion by 2024, BMO Capital Markets estimates.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

There’s a different way of thinking about learning, one that involves technology but doesn’t see it as the key agent of change or source of learning. According to Papert: “The content for human development is always a culture, never an isolated technology.” I like to think of that system as an ecology.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The majority of educational technology is designed for student use. Higher Education. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

Employers are increasingly using human capital management systems to help document the skills of employees and help match what they can do to other opportunities that may exist within the organization, added Gregorie, who expects that trend to grow. Data will play a larger role.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text reminders of deadlines and general tips might not be sufficient to help students who cannot locate documents or need help answering a question. Silicon Valley likes to build things that will “scale” but education relies not upon clicks but upon student motivation. None of these guidelines are absolute.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But just off campus in the surrounding neighborhoods, high-speed internet is hard to come by, and it tends to be expensive for folks in a county where Census data show the median household income is $36,802, and the poverty rate is 19 percent, according to Jochai Ben-Avie, chief executive of the nonprofit Connect Humanity.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Whether it’s trying to find your first-ever locker at the start of middle school or stepping onto a giant college campus for the first day of classes, studies have documented how that sense of isolation can go on to diminish students’ ability to succeed academically. To make sure students know how to get from point A to B.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education? The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. Then, over time, C3 gained momentum in all the right ways.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2022

With annual expenditures of more than $750 billion , American public schools have complicated operations—from financial workflow to human resources to business analytics, and too many rely on analog processes in a digital world. Another area that can use a tech assist is human resources. The answer, unfortunately, is too many schools.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As an educator, I present Black literature to readers as a tool for their own liberation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One of the great debates in education spans more than two millennia. Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates fretted that writing things down would cause humans to become ignorant because they wouldn’t have to memorize anything. But human nature is to do the opposite and Google before trying.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

Medicine and nursing programs have been natural fits, but some in the humanities are experimenting too, such as in architecture and film. Certain disciplines and classes lend themselves to simulations that take advantage of the strengths of VR. We need some shared narrative.” Other universities are doing the same.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 10, 2023

Anyone who has applied for a job in the last two decades is aware of the prominent role that applicant-tracking systems and resume-scanning technologies play in determining which candidates make it into the hiring pipeline. s), as well as into continuing education activities and other educational experiences.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I made a choice to see my full humanity — my race, gender and chronic illnesses. When my manager, another Afro-Caribbean woman whose work I admired prior to becoming her employee, put a document on my desk detailing exclusive rules after my new diagnosis, I quit on the spot.

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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. The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

A third is the reality that “there is a documented problem with discrimination and harrassment in some of these occupations as well and on some of these job sites,” Glynn says. Some participants are already enrolled in Moore Community House Early Head Start, which provides education, food and social services to families with young kids.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

A document that no one else has interpreted. You’re also part of this big thing, this human endeavor—that’s kind of cool.” “You don’t want to read 30 articles,” the professor says, “you want to read seven.” As for primary sources, the professor suggests looking for a map, or a ship’s record, or a diary entry.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

The job fairs are already at capacity — the company has an attractive offer of benefits, a 401(k), and paid time off — and expects more than 750 new jobs to come to the area , including in manufacturing, operations, human resources and administrative roles. But we don’t have the child care infrastructure to support this,” Gale says. “If

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. Higher Education. 21, 2019 during the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) held in Doha, Qatar. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Proof Points.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

How might anyone justify the point of view that having stronger and better human relationships, where community members of all races and backgrounds can participate and thrive, is counterproductive? Now more than ever, schools must embrace the human-centric opportunities of SEL and reject false and frenzied challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our humanity matters, but our unique experiences also matter. The corrosive and life-threatening effects of exposure to chronic racism have also been long documented.⁵ So much emotional energy is expended attempting to reconcile the disempowering moment in order to reclaim our humanity. What are you?”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2025

In the report that came from that border visit , you and your colleagues explain the science behind how stress affects mental health and give recommendations on how educators can support their immigrant students. Could you go over how stress might manifest right now in immigrant children and their ability to learn?

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Adam has written on educational technology topics for various publications, including Education Week, Forbes, and edSurge. And he has been an invited speaker about education, technology, and teacher training for conferences at home and abroad. Why don’t we do that in education?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2025

They become living documents, he says. Gannon then encourages the class to talk about what they were surprised by, how the conversation changed and what they took away from the activity. After class, he scans the question sheets so students can use them as study guides. The approach isnt for everyone, Norell adds.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2025

After taking office, the Trump administration rescinded the Biden era federal order on artificial intelligence that had spotlighted the technologys potential harms including discrimination, disinformation and threats to national security. It also ended the Office of Educational Technology, a key federal source of guidance for schools.

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