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Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementaryschool classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So yeah, I'm an educator and businesswoman.
Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on educationtechnology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction.
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 lessonplans, 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.
Students started to have rich discussions about what the purpose of school should be and tapped into their creativity to find unique ways to represent their ideas through writing, images, audio or video. The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lessonplanning.
This year, an anti-remediation sentiment has spread quickly among educators, who’ve adopted a mantra: “Accelerate, don’t remediate.” This comparison of the two approaches using educationtechnology is promising, but more research is needed. Educators have a lot of work ahead of them.
And the best part is educators don’t need experience coding either. The game does the heavy lifting, while the included lessonplans and student-facing lesson slides make in-classroom implementation turnkey and enjoyable.
Once she was settled into her new position as a grants coordinator, she saw how similar grant proposals and project plans are to writing and evaluating a lessonplan for a class. She says the job requires organization and people skills, both of which she also needed to be a successful elementaryschool teacher. “I
As the start of the school year kicks off across the country, elementaryschool teachers work hour upon hour to create welcoming, joyous spaces for learning. They set up their classrooms, consult the curriculum, make lessonplans and determine their routines.
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Google and Apple both made big educationtechnology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools.
Among reasons a school might leave the network: the fee, which starts at about $50,000 a year for new schools that need a lot of support and drops to about $15,000 for more seasoned members; a new principal who wants to champion his or her own approach, or simply a poor fit.
Generative AI has stormed into education. Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lessonplans for teachers. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.
Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educationaltechnology. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy ElementarySchool in Phoenix.
But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and educationtechnology companies eager to capitalize on the trend.
The research community urged schools to spend a big chunk of their roughly $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery funds on what is called “high-dosage” tutoring. Many schools embraced this sort of frequent tutoring. No school district should be paying for tutoring if kids aren’t showing up,” Epstein said.
In the meantime, many new features and products released in recent weeks focus on helping educators with administrative tasks or responsibilities like creating lessonplans 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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