ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That was the last class I taught at the high school before moving into my new role as an assistant professor at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, where I teach a course for pre-service teachers on educational technology. One of the challenges is to find ways to model great teaching while delivering the content my students need.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

I also field a lot of questions from elementary teachers who are curious about how they can integrate technology into their lessons in a meaningful and developmentally appropriate way. What are EduProtocols? Eduprotocols are instructional strategies initially developed by Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

Recommended Resources Read the full ISTE research report: Job Seeker Pathway Needs Learn more about this topic through a micro-learning experience: Explore Skills-based Technologies Click here to see the full infographic. SkillRise , an ISTE initiative, enhances adult learning with educational technology.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released an AI report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning. The report outlined recommendations for guidelines and guardrails for the responsible use of AI in educational technology. . — Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, “educational policy and decision-makers at the local, state, and federal level should use their power to align priorities, educational strategies, and technology adoption decisions to place the academic needs of students ahead of the excitement about emerging AI capabilities.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Equipping Teachers With AI Expertise To truly realize the potential of AI, there is a need for a technology-literate, fully engaged workforce. Department of Education Office of Educational Technologys AI policy report addresses the clear need to share knowledge, engage educators and refine policies for AI use in education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While the emergency switch to remote instruction caused students to fall behind in learning — with regular assessments showing declining test scores, especially in math — it also significantly sped up the adoption of digital devices and impressed upon districts the importance of technology, according to advocates.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. The growing reliance on data and analytics to help build that ecosystem.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Leading By Example For Alana Winnick, educational technology director at Pocantico Hills Central School District in Sleepy Hollow, New York, it’s important to make it clear to colleagues when she uses generative AI in a way that is new — and which people may not even realize is possible.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We are developing these resources for educational leaders to define and operationalize AI for educators. Artificial Intelligence, like all educational technology, has the ability to reproduce existing inequities in education.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

A statement issued by the school district said “several educational technology companies are interested in acquiring” AllHere to continue its work, though nothing concrete has been announced.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

The foundation is also seeking to expand the use of outcomes-based contracts beyond tutoring to education technology and software. Walker says that the rate cards and recordkeeping are improving from the first pilot round, which took place during the stress and chaos of the pandemic.

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Inclusive Design Inclusive design in educational technology is crucial to ensure that all students, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds, have equal access to learning opportunities. Choose tools that offer customizable settings, allowing teachers to adjust the difficulty level and content to meet the needs of their students.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. Rocio Raña is the CEO and co-founder of LangInnov, a company that uses automated scoring for its language and literacy assessments for bilingual students and is working on another one for writing.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Image credit: Allison Leedie / Khan Academy Kids How Edtech Can Help Educational technology has become an invaluable resource in addressing the diverse SEL needs of students, especially in the post-COVID era. Owen practices identifying emotions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s why the development of AI-powered tools that can accommodate all learners must be a priority for policymakers, districts and the education technology industry. The stakes are much higher for these students, and digital media often underserves them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In other efforts, students often didn’t want to use earlier versions of education technology and computerized tutors. Kestin hopes his AI tutor will allow him to spend less time on vocabulary and basics and devote more time to creative activities and advanced problems during class.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

Online has become more the norm,” said Phil Hill, a consultant and market analyst of education technology in higher education, whose newsletter alerted me to the new milestone. “It’s Compared to before the pandemic, an additional 1.5 million students were taking all of their courses online and 1.35

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

I wasn’t an overly confident student when it came to engaging in open conversations during class. If one of my teachers posed a question, I only raised my hand if I was 99.9% sure that I knew the correct answer.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Data science is changing their view of math,” said Jay Sorensen, Oxnard’s educational technology coordinator, who helped design the class. “It It changed their perspective, or their view of what math is, because they maybe didn’t enjoy math or were frustrated with math or hated math before.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen. More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. That was a steep increase from the 15 percent of students missing that much class before the pandemic.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. So as she saw the rise of AI tools, she was quick to try them.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When I came out to my family during my first year of college in the early 2000s, my mom’s immediate concern extended beyond my safety and happiness to my future as an educator. She asked, “But what about your career?” as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In 2024, if you want to make a dinner reservation, you’re very likely to open an app on your phone, input a few details and then filter your results to see which restaurants have availability for your party size, date and time. If you want to find child care, on the other hand, good luck.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. The brutal, sticky heat of Texas summer already had people wiping sweat from their brows and handing out bottled water from ice-filled coolers.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

As an educator reading headline after headline about AI in education, it’s hard to not get lost in an existential tailspin to the tune of Billie Eilish’s “What was I made for?” (if Integrating generative AI into education is complex. if AI can do all of this.)

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Unidos. No need to hop over to Google Translate. Chances are good that if you were one of the 5.3 s bilingual students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. This was before ChatGPT existed, and fewer people were talking about the wonders of AI.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2024

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. That’s what Georgetown University professor Jeanine Turner found in her research about how tech has shaped social relationships.

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