A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2011

For detailed information on the program please visit The New Milford Holocaust Project. Technology now allows the students and staff at NMHS to share in the authentic learning experiences taking place in Europe (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic). It is an exciting time to be in education.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

A connected learning model is empowering and ultimately creates a human-generated search engine for the most practical ideas and strategies being implemented in schools today. I also love being able to filter content based on my interests from a variety of information sources to one convenient location. community at edWeb for free.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In most states, you can visit a website and see a map of providers in your area, along with some basic information about them — ages served, operating hours, quality rating — but details about their enrollment availability is often either not listed or long out-of-date. And sometimes that’s just an information gap.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres a disconnect between what we know is really critical and then what were paying attention to, says Hau, executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and author of a new book about the essential role of relationships in healthy human development. The way I define relational intelligence is fairly simple, actually.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Riconscente recommends products provide positive, informative feedback that enables the learner to deepen their understanding. But how can ed tech developers make sure their products deliver on this promise?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Giving students the space to do what they need gives them the power as human beings to decide how to use their time. Knowledge is not just about content, but about getting to know other human beings. While the fear of neglecting academic content is real, retaining information when anxious or unsafe is impossible.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I have built systems in my lesson planning approach that keep me organized because I know I cannot hold all this information in my brain. In telling them about myself, I open up a portal into a world where teachers are humanized instead of being seen as authority figures who just distribute grades at the end of the semester.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

You cant make informed decisions if you dont know how it works. You cant make informed decisions if you dont know how it works. But theres also a strong emphasis on what we call human-only skills ethics, creative problem-solving, design thinking and user experience. We also really dig into being critical of AI.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

The AI Revolution in Education Artificial Intelligence has the power to transform operations by vastly speeding up processes, creating efficiencies and making jobs easier for administrators and educators. This technology is not about replacing human judgment but augmenting it.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I learned about the massive scale of labor, human capital and strategic investment that go into making a successful organization. We’re Not in Consulting Anymore, Toto… In my short time in the consulting world, I got a glimpse behind the curtain of how different industries operate.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Defining the Integration of Artificial Intelligence Integrating AI refers to the incorporation of machine-driven intelligence into various applications and processes, enabling tasks that mimic human cognitive functions like learning from data, problem-solving and recognizing patterns. Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S. .

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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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. In order to do the kind of work that they were promising, they needed to gather information about students from many IT systems,” he said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I can't cite where I've heard this, but I do know that people have been asked, if you could lose a skill or function as a human, and you had to choose between losses such as the ability to walk or to see or to communicate, respondents said it would be the most devastating to lose their ability to communicate.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to disciplinary concepts, it is important to address areas such as the appropriate use and timing of AI, the historical context of AI development, addressing biases, safeguarding the privacy of data shared with AI systems/tools, ensuring equitable access to AI tools, and taking into account environmental and human labor considerations.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions.

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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. Higher Education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

After all, these days colleges and other education institutions are hiring a growing number of human instructional designers to help create or improve teaching materials — especially as colleges have developed more online classes and programs. The question is, can AI do that?”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

It’s a free AI chatbot that can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Unlike a Google search, the new tool can deliver full paragraphs of information, and it does so in a way that seems like the AI is having a conversation with you. By now you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. Other math platforms generate data reports too, and teachers ought to be able to use them to inform their instruction. One-size-fits-all instruction may not be perfect, but it keeps the humans in the picture.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Without any human touch, the memo would not have received a passing grade because it was too high-level and didn’t provide a literature review with proper citations. Especially since it’s difficult if not impossible, given the current limitations of AI detectors , to distinguish AI- versus human-produced content.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 9, 2015

Education researchers and learning scientists are studying a range of topics such as motivation, engagement, learning progressions, memory, literacy, child development, and learning disabilities. One key way in which developers use academic research is through comprehensive literature reviews that inform product design and development.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2024

In other words, the tool tended to go even further in completing an essay by adding in other information from its vast stores of training data. “So The technique is different from other attempts to focus the use of AI for education, in that the only source the myScribe bot draws from is the student’s notes rather than a wider dataset.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Think of interoperability as the plumbing and access to information and ease of use as the hot shower that we can enjoy by simply turning on the tap. Schools are awash in valuable data about students, creating the potential for educators to access a profile of the “whole child.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. Finding a Balance Writing centers need to find a balance between introducing AI into the writing process and keeping the human support that every writer needs, argues Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

Now all of a sudden, without asking teachers to give up their weekends to grade,” he says, “we can give all that information to the student and teacher within seconds.” It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible.

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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. Our inquiry not only shifted my focus from learning history to becoming a historian, but it also shifted my identity.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality. So Ashok K. Those courses enroll between 100 and 370 students each.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So the folks behind the Common App have been testing a tool that might help more students successfully apply to college, both by giving them accurate information about deadlines and resources and by encouraging them to keep at it when it feels overwhelming. But some of Oli’s human correspondents had more to say.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

As a student acts and speaks, his or her avatar will perform in front of a virtual audience, but other humans in the room won’t see the virtual theater that the student sees. Shakespeare-VR is designed for a student to experience while wearing a VR headset. The performance essentially takes place in private.

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