ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2023

Summer is a time for educators to do some learning, and there are plenty of conferences and workshops throughout the season. But one national event for teachers this month had a very unusual trait: It was started and organized by students. The free online conference, called AI x Education , aimed at getting teachers at colleges and high schools up to speed on the latest AI tools like ChatGPT, and to encourage them to try to use them this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In Hopewell, Virginia, about 20 miles southeast of Richmond, Juanterria Browne spends her days providing child care for children with dis

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2023

The post 3 Ways to Celebrate Your Students’ Creativity and Innovation This School Year appeared first on Digital Promise.

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TCI

AUGUST 24, 2023

TCI’s free science activities will keep students engaged in science all year long. Explore the list to find seasonal science experiments for elementary and middle school classrooms. Halloween (October) Don’t be afraid to teach with TCI’s free science lessons for elementary and middle school! For Halloween, explore free lessons about gooey oobleck and real body snatchers (parasitoids) that turn their prey into zombies.

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Achieve the Core

AUGUST 24, 2023

My child can’t read yet, Mrs. Armstrong! Is my daughter already behind? We just started kindergarten! How many times have we as teachers been asked this question: “Is my child behind?” Well, behind what, exactly? Behind whom? I remember being asked this question by a very concerned and anxious parent at the start of the 2021–22 school year. This parent, like many others, had kept their child home from preschool due to the pandemic.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

Once something because a requirement, it often loses its joy. It seems like that’s precisely what’s happened now that the Citizenship Test is a high school graduation requirement in many states. During the 2010s, one specific group, the Civics Education Initiative, made it their goal to have all 50 states make passing some form of the US Naturalization Test (the official name of the test) a high school graduation requirement.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

If you know one thing about 12th-century Arab cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, it is that he is the author of this wonky world map, which is often included in modern atlases as a prime example of medieval mapmaking skills. That invites comparisons that do him no favors. Among the hyper-precise maps in today’s atlases, al-Idrisi’s looks like a child’s drawing.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

The main principles of the US Constitution can be tricky to teach for a few reasons. First, you’re introducing them at the beginning of your Civics class before diving into the Constitution’s actual text. So it feels a little forced—you’re telling them what they are rather than students discovering them independently. Second, they’re crucial to know to lay a foundation for your course, but time is usually so short trying to cover all the required founding docs as well—the Declaration, the

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