ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult. When I first got into education, I wanted to be there emotionally for young people. Tools for Students and Teachers If theres anything Ive learned as a neurodivergent educator, it's that an ableist world will not wait for me, so I must know what I need.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

The IPA establishes the framework for educators and administrators, facilitating an innovative lens to underpin individualized professional growth. Among these resources stands the Innovative Practices Assessment (IPA), which was created to fill a void in moving from ideas and innovative practices to results that improve the learning culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2013

Innovation and creativity are at the core of the American spirit and they are the qualities that build the foundation for progress in education, technology, business, and, well, just about everything. The Lowell Milken Center was named for and founded by education philanthropist Lowell Milken in 2007.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected area in schools, and Ms. Micro-credentials can be used to guide, motivate, and validate informal learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 27, 2012

The Adobe Education Exchange is a central location for educators to meet, share, discuss, and collaborate on topics of interest to the Adobe education community. There are numerous benefits associated with becoming a member of the Adobe Education Exchange. Connect and collaborate with innovative educators in your field.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

With the first month of the school year in the books, I am extremely pleased with how more staff members are embracing educational technology and effectively integrating a variety of tools into instruction. At New Milford High School we clearly articulate that technology is a powerful tool.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Today, the use of this technology in education settings is underway, and states are even beginning to release guidance on how to navigate AI in schools. If we could save some of our early educators time — to spend even more time with our little ones — I think we would all benefit. A summary of the discussion follows.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As I learned more about the attributes of the youngest generation, I began to think about the implications for educators. How are educators creating conditions to prepare them to mold this new world they were born into? To help educators do that, I often ask them: “Do we know what our students value? If not, how can we find out?”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, educators have been considering the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) on education. Different approaches to AI codes of conduct are emerging, based on geography, school size and administrators’ willingness to embrace new technology.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Department of Education and celebrated at a gala in their honor. I'm pretty sure they all have graduate degrees in technology at this point.” But a college education course changed her perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. Higher Education. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co., Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. The professional development opportunity was designed by technology nonprofit Playlab.ai and faculty at the Relay Graduate School of Education.

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Tutoring Educational Technology 101

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Both technologies have made their way into classrooms, leaving educational researchers wondering about their differences and implications for learning. We asked Robert Spierenburg, the chief executive officer at All Things Media , to help explain how AR and VR differ and what that means for the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. Much of the educational software was actually used inside school buildings, not only at home.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2023

As an early adopter and enthusiast for immersive technology in schools, I’ve had the opportunity to share ways to use augmented and virtual reality to transform learning with educators around the world. For many teachers, it’s not just the learning curve of using new technology, it’s also the process of lesson planning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in todays educational system. This highlights the necessity of integrating robust numeracy programs into early education frameworks to give students a head start. Teacher training is another cornerstone of effective numeracy instruction.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced. Not long ago, many schools required teachers to include the use of technology in their daily lesson plans. Teachers were grasping at anything that could fulfill the “obligation” of using technology.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Like many educators who saw the early pandemic fallout, administrators in my school knew that we had to respond to students’ needs as they faced increased isolation and unprecedented stress levels. This change might be attributed to so many factors– perhaps the turbulence of adolescence or the ongoing trauma of the pandemic.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. This dynamic is significantly magnified within the education workforce. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. Yes, I’m deviating from my lesson plans. The lesson plan would still be there.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. Benjamin W.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In our increasingly digital world, educators recognize the significance of integrating AI tools in the classroom. It is essential for educators to tap into professional development (PD) opportunities to advance their understanding of how to use AI to improve the classroom experience. I think all educators grew concerned.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As we started asking educators, administrators and experts about the issue as part of an investigation into how teachers inform the development of edtech products , everyone agreed: teacher voice should be part of edtech decisions. So what explains the disconnect? He points to two reasons for the disconnect.

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EdTech Educational Technology Middle School Lesson Plan 123

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

As another pandemic year draws to a close, a few key themes have risen to the top in education. Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Then, Public Education. Then, Public Education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although digital technologies hold great promise in the realm of education, access remains limited for many communities worldwide. One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. IEI teacher dashboard "Nothing changes."

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. But under the rule, educational institutions are responsible for the websites and materials they use for education. There may be more to come.

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EdTech K-12 Government Social Justice 143

ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

It actually was a tangible piece of evidence to see what we were talking about when we say there is a lack of respect for educators — when you don’t even want to have them on a committee to talk about what would keep them in a classroom.” At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data. There is no such thing as balance.

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Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction. But education leaders can’t wait for policies to be drawn up and legislation enacted.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As use cases expand, and the much-discussed metaverse takes shape, educators today have an opportunity to prepare their students for the technology careers of tomorrow. We’re on a mission to close that education gap. Teach for Tomorrow’s Job Market Many parents want their children to study computer science.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

Put simply, data-driven instruction occurs when educators collect and analyze data on student learning and behavior to drive and personalize classroom instruction. Yet, if data-driven instruction is important and top-of-mind for educators and parents, why are data-forward instructional approaches often abandoned, ignored or even derided ?

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