ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Picture it: a room bustling with eager five-year-olds unaccustomed to center procedures and five iPads as the hottest commodity amidst blocks, dolls and traditional learning stations. It’s not just about having the latest gadgets; it's about leveraging technology to support their development and enrich their learning journey.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Educators, particularly those entering the field with insufficient training or experience, need immediate access to job-embedded and asynchronous professional development that they can access easily and on their own schedule. We must invest in our teachers.

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Edthena

AUGUST 25, 2021

We suggest allowing for choice in assignments, choice in student use of edtech tools, and choice in student work partners (if appropriate). We suggest allowing for choice in assignments, choice in student use of edtech tools, and choice in student work partners (if appropriate). Use EdTech Tools that Support All Modes of Learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. I was looking for something that was backed by great research, had good tech support and would have professional development,” Van Fossan says.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Recently, the world of edtech financing has exploded. At the same time, many game-making professionals have grown tired of entertainment-only games and leery of the often toxic culture. What kind of learning games would work for more ordinary teachers, and where would games fit into the traditional curriculum?

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Edthena

AUGUST 24, 2021

Building more content knowledge is often the go-to for teacher professional development, especially during back-to-school season. Heather Hill, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says to skip the PD that’s focused solely on developing new content knowledge. The findings were surprising.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As educators, we tend to be on a continuous quest for innovative edtech tools that will enhance the learning experience for students. Discourage traditional homework assignments involving written tasks and essays, especially with unreliable AI detection tools. Remove grading for non-end-of-year assessment work.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Michael Paul Ida Michael Paul Ida , a high school math and computer science teacher in Hawaii shared insights on the importance of bringing a healthy dose of skepticism to edtech and how teachers are disengaging from professional development.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

Challenge: Edtech Procurement and Adoption | Response: The Educators’ Playground in Rowan-Salisbury Schools. In a colorful space adjacent to where teachers receive regular professional development training, Rowan-Salisbury Schools has created an Educators’ Playground of edtech where teachers can tinker and test new products.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When traditional systems seem to be working in a highly localized educational ecosystem, leaders are sometimes hesitant to innovate in small districts. In collaboration with EdSurge, Northern Ignite hosted an event with 700 attendees at Ramapo College that exposed educators to both the edtech and edtech venture capital worlds.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2020

Teachers are continuing to participate in professional development sessions focused on creating unit plans, modeling how to use the online platforms, and answering staff questions. Early on in the transition, everything took much longer to implement virtually than in a traditional classroom setting. Teacher Support.

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Edthena

MAY 11, 2021

Doug Fisher was interviewed by Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller for the teacher professional development blog PLtogether. Is traditional assessment still the best way to check for understanding? Can traditional multiple choice tests and check for understanding techniques cut it in the modern technological era?

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Edthena

MAY 25, 2021

Meghan stated, “We’ve really left the last year feeling like some of the innovations that we’ve been working on may be equally or more robust than traditional field experiences.” . More beyond-the-pandemic lessons learned included reflections on the pre-service teaching programming being done at schools.

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Edthena

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jim Knight, the author of multiple professional development books, including Instructional Coaching , is an expert in implementing video as a critical tool in the coaching process. “See [coaches] as providing a service to teachers,” Jim said in his interview for the professional development blog PLTogether. .

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

As teachers take the reins and led their own professional development related to using video in teacher learning, the relationship dynamic between teachers and instructional coaches has shifted. Laura says she can see the value of video in professional development, even during this time of distance learning.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Deborah was interviewed for the teacher professional development blog PLtogether. With the time constraints of traditional classrooms lifted while learning at home, students can focus and work on problems over a longer period of time. You can watch the interview segment above, and we’ve shared some of the highlights below.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

It’s possible to use Explorations inside Edthena to create a more traditional, module-style approach to micro-credentials. In this way, micro-credentials don’t have to be a “something extra” but, instead, can be an integrated value-add your teachers receive as a byproduct of their professional development process.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Ayodele was interviewed for the teacher professional development resource portal PLtogether. Read our related Lounge Talk interview with Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn about the shift from traditional to distance teaching and coaching. . We also talked to Ayodele about creating safe spaces for black male educators.

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Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

We minimized the “sage on the stage” instructional model where lecture dominates learning time, and intentionally built our traditional classes around small group learning structures. Read more on EducationDive: 5 Strategies To Reform Early Ed Professional Development.

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