ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. Perez says her third and fourth grade students catch up quickly with individual support, where shes able to tailor each lesson to their personal interests depending on whether students are history buffs or go crazy for dinosaurs.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

In order to create the systemic changes required to realize racial justice, we must transform ourselves into students and recommit to learning how our shared history influences modern practices. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Since the growth of generative AI, we have made some updates to our framework, but theyve been minimal because were trying hard to keep it focused on student skills and not tie it to specific technologies. At Gwinnett, we have a history of preparing students for their futures in innovative and meaningful ways.

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K-12 Public School Leadership Teaching 105

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. What does AR look like in the humanities? It gives humanities a relevant context.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. Based on this assignment, one could argue that my college history class transcended the surface-level exploration endemic to most lessons in school.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. I'm a human being. history teacher in Pittsburgh. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In fact, I think it has enormous potential to augment our human creativity and to support effective teaching and learning. But too often, in discussions around AI in education, we get stuck on the notion of cheating and miss out on more interesting questions: How can these new tools make us more creative?

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 131

ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

But even though Cote agrees that human grading is superior to what a bot can do, the reality is that teachers don’t have time to grade the number of essay assignments he thinks is really necessary to get kids fluent in the knowledge and critical thinking skills they’ll need to be effective citizens in our democracy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work.

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Education Sociology Economics Tradition 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But several speakers at the LearnLaunch Across Boundaries conference on education technology and innovation, held last week in Boston, argued that these reforms are not simply trends that will come and go, but the evolution of an education system that, in the scope of human history, is still quite young.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters.

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American History World History Social Studies History 134

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Two pencils and a school desk he used for drumsticks and a drum: Tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh-tuh-tuh-duh As educators, we must ask ourselves what we can do within our capacity to co-create a cultural landscape that decenters the white gaze and allows the full breadth of the human experience. This was joy.

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Cultures Humanities Leadership Teaching 132

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Youngpradit: The equity concern is more than the idea of a burgeoning AI divide in terms of access to the internet, devices and even the people who can teach students about this technology. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection. How can educators address the concern about students using AI to cheat?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the number of Latine students increases in my school, it’s important that we humanize the migrant experience so that we can redefine the American Dream for students today. I teach Spanish through a lens of history and justice because, for our students, it’s mind-opening to study Latin America and gain an understanding of its people.

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Heritage Humanities Economics Cultures 119

ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. But even before an application finds its way to a human, it often has to pass through an automated screening process. How will he or she react to an application that has an alternative credential instead of a college degree?

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Tradition Humanities Leadership High School 113

ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Not only does Mayer think that upbeat virtual tutors will work better than those with other emotional tones, but he thinks that some students might learn better from an optimized agent than from a human tutor. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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Tutoring Psychology Humanities Teaching 122

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

Peter Baldwin, a professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, calls it a “grotesque disparity,” one that many professors don’t even realize. Baldwin’s latest book, “Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All,” looks at the history and future of the open access movement.

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Library History Humanities Tradition 136

ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As an educator, I present Black literature to readers as a tool for their own liberation.

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Humanities Charter School History Government 98

ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Still, the challenges we face in our public education system rank right up there with war in Ukraine in the existential crises keeping me up at night. Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students.

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Education Tutoring Cultures Leadership 142

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software.

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EdTech Pedagogy Educational Technology Cultures 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

It comes from a wide range of education technology products, assessments and other sources — there’s data from reading programs, math programs, state tests, daily quizzes, student history and more, each one a single puzzle piece that could be linked to other pieces to create a unified picture, but that, more often than not, stands alone.

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K-12 Project-Based Learning Public School Educational Technology 101

ED Surge

JULY 11, 2022

Deep in the heart of New Orleans, a hotbed of American culture and history, scholars Cornel West and Robert George—or as they call each other, Brother West and Brother Robbie—came together during the ISTE 2022 conference to discuss exactly that. (I 1: Genuine dialogue must be rooted in respect and awareness of human fallibility.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The course covers the history of feminism then and now, which includes an extensive lesson on gender violence. As an educator, I embrace my classroom as a place of hope and gathering where the students and I come together to grow our empathy and humanity.

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Teaching Humanities Leadership History 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Again, sometimes that’s good; it’s a wonderful thing to dwell on the various wonders of what makes our humanity universal. But too often, we fail to center our local contexts, and to explore all of the assets that our neighborhoods and communities could bring to our educational mission.

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Local History Civics Lesson Plan Social Science 128

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

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Project-Based Learning Elementary School Educational Technology History 93

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt. Aging gracefully is difficult for all of us, but as a teacher, it’s been trickier than I expected.”

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Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 110

ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C. As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. era: hand-written scrolls.

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Education Critical Thinking Teaching History 140

ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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Civics Psychology Humanities Learning Science 95

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Understanding context is a crucial human skill that is best taught through storytelling and real-world applications. English language arts and history teachers have long excelled at teaching context by helping students understand the background and culture surrounding texts or historical events.

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Advocacy Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 126

ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity. She says it all comes down to the basic human need to feel cared for and to be part of a community. And I think that the humanity is missing in these orientations that we have,” Mentor says.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

Perhaps most critically, edtech also has potential to provide children with a personalized learning experience tailored to their own context, interests, and abilities—something that a new UNESCO report calls a human right.

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