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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

ED Surge

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. How does augmented reality engage all students? It serves as a bridge for students to connect in the classroom.”

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AI Guidelines for K-12 Aim to Bring Order to the ‘Wild West’

ED Surge

“How many of us have downloaded the updated agreement for our iPhone without reading it?” Teachers use generative AI to create lesson plans, and any school district employee could use it to help write a work document. Smith says. “If Is AI Your Co-Writer? It’s not just student use of AI that needs to be considered.

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Alaska schools pay a price for the nation’s slowest internet, but change is coming

The Hechinger Report

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds. That would have brought everything—email, online testing, cloud-based records systems and student research—to a halt.

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What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?

The Hechinger Report

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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More Than a Standard: Getting Back to the Heart of Education

ED Surge

Along the way, have we veered off course from the primary goals of education? Getting back to the heart of education Technology enables us to go back to our roots by alleviating teachers of mundane, time-consuming tasks, emphasizing individual student focus and delivering tailored practice.

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Discussing Politics in Classrooms Is an Opportunity for Growth, Not Division

ED Surge

With political topics as polarizing as they are right now, it is understandable for teachers to want to try to avoid them and just stick to the lesson plan. School leaders report that polarization over major social and political issues interferes with schools’ ability to educate children.

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Teachers Aren't Getting Enough Training on Technology. It’s a Global Problem.

ED Surge

One company trying to change this is Colombia-based Coschool, which allows teachers to upload their own materials for other educators to download for free or a fee. A second opportunity reimagines training delivery methods using emerging technology. hours to 10 minutes.

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