A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

Many difficult lessons were learned during the pandemic, and a few more are sure to materialize over the next couple of months. With 2020 in the rearview mirror, it is now time to focus on the present with an eye to the future.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For example, teachers might learn to use ChatGPT to generate lesson plans or to compose feedback on student writing. For their part, edtech developers need to actively engage teachers from different types of schools, serving different populations and varying levels of resources as they develop new tools.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Danger of a Myopic Focus on AI Technology Tools It reminds me of the early days of the edtech boom when I would attend the Computer Using Educators (CUE) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conferences, and the most popular sessions had titles like “50 Tech Tools in 50 Minutes.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I appreciated having the flexibility to say, I'm super swamped this first week back at school and don’t have time in the evenings; I'm just going to sit down and do this on Sunday when I'm doing my lesson planning. This doesn’t mean redoing everything in your lessons. I encourage teachers to find their online communities.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

What held me back was a lack of access to technology and a lack of being forced to be innovative with edtech. What held me back was a lack of access to technology and a lack of being forced to be innovative with edtech. I taught in a brick and mortar school. I used paper and pencil. I just hadn’t applied that directly to my teaching.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

Meanwhile, educators also have scores of new edtech products to review that promise to save them time on lesson planning and administrative tasks thanks to AI. One of the most significant changes was OpenAI’s announcement that it would make its latest generation of chatbot, which it dubbed GPT-4o, free to anyone.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. In the Eduverse, teacher avatars will teleport around to digital edtech hubs, where they can learn new technology skills to add to their credential chains. They’ll pop into marketplaces, where they can, say, trade lesson plans they’ve created for tokens.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction. The nonprofit EdTech Equity Project’s procurement guide for district leaders is a great place to start — offering a rubric for assessing new AI-powered ed tech solutions. Can teachers review and override the data your product generates?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

When we roll out hardware or one-to-one edtech in schools, we need to purchase laptops and carts and wireless access points. It makes sense that in a recent report published by PowerSchool — an edtech school solution provider — most educators were only “neutral” about the value that AI would bring to their classrooms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

We dove into the role of teachers in edtech decision-making and the use of evidence in the development of learning technologies. We explored new efforts by school districts to address staff shortages and other ongoing fallout from the pandemic, including four-day school weeks and more flexible, better-paying teaching programs.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But I think a lot of the other pieces that edtech has traditionally worked on or even other parts of the education system, maybe some of the more administrative tasks, I think it is important for everyone to be wondering how AI might change that. They have these grad students who essentially do exactly what that example the AI was doing.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For example, if the overall initiative focuses on video coaching, an activity reading another teacher’s lesson plan might not be pertinent. However, a teacher could choose an activity in which they watch a recorded video of another teacher discussing the steps taken to create the lesson plans.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

All videos are accessed securely , even if teachers are working on a new lesson plan from home: only authenticated users in your district can view the videos. Like other digital resources, a district-wide teaching video library in Edthena becomes an on-demand resource available to teachers whenever they might need access.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Perhaps this includes things such as the day’s lesson plan (easily attached to a video observation in Edthena), their own self-reflection of the lesson, or a list of the schoolwide improvement goals and priorities. What are their (or the grade, department, etc.) and their students’ goals?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

And, when teachers share lesson plans with one another in closed or proprietary online learning platforms, they may be ceding ownership of their lessons to the technology providers, depending on the agreements made between their school and the provider.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

So I mentioned the lesson plan before. Looking at a lesson plan, just to check off that you had a lesson plan. Listen to this Edtech Today episode or watch other interviews with education leaders at PLtogether. . Steve Miletto: Yeah. Now, people get a little too caught up in what it looks like.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Each video can also have supporting documents like lesson plans and other materials relevant to understanding the classroom context. This ensures other teachers who watch the video later can quickly jump to the most relevant parts. We’ve made each organization’s library searchable by grade, subject, and tags.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Trying to balance lesson planning, teaching, and taking care of my own well-being hasn’t been easy, but I’m doing my best to carve out moments for myself to stay sane. Still, Tuesday’s lesson reminded me that, despite all the challenges, we’re making progress—one step at a time. This week, I felt the weight of it all.

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Edthena

MARCH 29, 2016

In addition to the video itself, the reviewer will be able to access documents such as lesson plans or samples of student work that may have been attached by the teacher. The principal or other hiring professional, when viewing the portfolio, will see the tagged skills prominently displayed. Safe and Secure.

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Edthena

MARCH 3, 2016

Program resources, like a standardized lesson plan template, are also available. Our portfolio builder is set up such that the instructions from the edTPA handbook are available for each task part. We include copies of templates as needed. This means an audio file can’t get accidentally uploaded to a document task part.

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Edthena

JULY 25, 2016

In addition, watching the way that others implemented lesson plans and strategies often stimulated ideas that I recognized I could incorporate into my own teaching, which I found so helpful. I found that Edthena provided a great chance to see other teachers at work, which allowed me to pick up strategies that I had not thought of.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This might mean comparing two moments from the same lesson, two examples of the same pedagogical move, or a video with related materials like lesson plans and student work. Compare is the Focusing Technique that can be used to distinguish similarities and differences between two or more pieces of evidence.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 5, 2022

If you want more conversation with students who have a different cultural background, create lesson plans that encourage discourse. Ask them about their goals and dreams, and how they hope to reach them. Model the way. Share your own cultural background and experience. Focus on caring for and encouraging students.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Although coaches were able to review lesson plans and feedback provided by mentor teachers, video delivered the ultimate opportunity to become a more active part in supporting residents through their journeys.

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Edthena

JANUARY 12, 2021

Together, teachers may decide if they want to keep the lessons for next year, improve it, or cut the lesson completely based on how beneficial it was to students. Laura believes that a lesson study is a very powerful tool in lesson planning and reflection.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The answer does not lie in a good lesson plan. Students are going to have questions about the Black Lives Matter movement, police violence, and ongoing national conversations about race. It’s not a matter of if, but when. So, how does a teacher prepare?

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Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2022

Whether it is grading or lesson planning or something else, pick one thing to start with before moving on to the other items on their list. F igure out the task and zoom in. Make sure to be super clear on what it is that should be accomplished in a specific amount of time. O ne thing at a time. C ut out unproductive behavior.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

And at least one edtech company is making a similar offer: Instructure, the learning management system provider that runs Canvas, is encouraging its employees to volunteer as substitute teachers for districts. And it created a program to train administrators and non-permanent teachers to use the company’s platform when the teacher is out.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Rwanda, an African edtech leader, plowed on with the (formerly) UN-backed One Laptop Per Child initiative without explaining how teachers should work with them. educators were dissatisfied with the training they received; only 15 percent believed they had received satisfactory training in edtech. Bart Epstein, CEO of the U.S.-based

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

That means that students have tutoring sessions at least three times a week, working one-to-one with tutors or in very small groups with tutors using clear lesson plans, not just helping with homework. Many schools embraced this sort of frequent tutoring. This time around, many schools are trying to improve tutoring quality.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

In the meantime, many new features and products released in recent weeks focus on helping educators with administrative tasks or responsibilities like creating lesson plans and other classroom materials. And those are the kinds of behind-the-scenes uses of AI that students may never even know are happening.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Betzabe Orenos: How can students make the case for AI use in the classroom?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2016

It contains thousands of edtech tool reviews and also allows you to browse by subject and standard. There is also an option to search teacher-created lesson plans. Graphite by Common Sense Media – A free platform that saves you time by making it easy to discover the best apps, games, and websites for the classroom.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2022

Administrators can do this by having teachers vet new programs that they’re considering, and edtech companies can bring teachers into their product development process. At Zinc Learning Labs , the edtech company where I currently work, we have a teacher advisory board and regularly engage educator users in (paid) feedback sessions.

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