The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Take speech-recognition technology, for example, which has transformative applications in the classroom: Students can use their voices to demonstrate how well they can read, spell or speak a language and receive real-time feedback. The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Whatever the next/newest technology, from paper to AI, the relationship between students and teachers has always been central to learning. While AI is useful, it’s important to remember that these interactions are driven by data and lack empathy, compassion and human understanding.

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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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Here’s how it impacts and demoralizes educators—and how they can push back. We Need to Make Schools Human Again. Her solutions include real listening, real change and learning to recognize one another’s humanity. In response, the site rolled out new social justice initiatives and more responsive content moderation.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2022

Now politicians are trying to censor, monitor, and report teachers —filing bills and executive orders that require microphones and cameras in classrooms, and lesson plans available for public review and approval. Educators are a workforce operating in a toxic work environment. Education work still requires a human touch.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. But I've also been fascinated by the potential of human intelligence.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

There was a time when I would come to school sick beyond belief because I did not want to disappoint anyone, and let’s face it, because the hassle of leaving lesson plans for subs who never completed them drove me absolutely crazy. All day, every day. What kind of fire am I going to light if I am burning the candle at both ends?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When I work with educators, we often begin with a lesson plan that has been taught many times before and consider how we might tweak it to provide more choice. Having information at their fingertips has made these kids curious and we need to create space for the big questions they have.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I'm a human being. She’s always thinking through lesson plans and seating charts, even at the grocery store and in the shower. That creativity and commitment is commendable, Rivera notes, but it also means that sometimes people take educators’ hard work for granted. “So Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

Educators at both schools and colleges were already struggling to keep up with ChatGPT and other AI tools during this academic year, but a fresh round of announcements last month by major AI companies may require even greater adjustments by educators to preserve academic integrity and to accurately assess student learning, teaching experts say.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Getting to know my students beyond their academic capabilities and seeing them develop into well-rounded humans is a gift. I grew up surrounded by educators, and I always knew there was a special bond that develops between teachers and students. This meant that I needed to shift my lesson-planning time, but it really paid off.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Take Adobe Express for Education , for example. We’ve loaded it with free lesson plans and resources for teachers, plus a learn tab with videos and guided activities for students to practice on their own. Understanding context is a crucial human skill that is best taught through storytelling and real-world applications.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Teachers use generative AI to create lesson plans, and any school district employee could use it to help write a work document. That’s why the new guidelines include examples of how to cite the use of generative AI in educational materials, research or work documents. “The Is AI Your Co-Writer? It’ll eventually go away.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And as I learned more about educational inequality, I wanted to help however I could. After college, I got my first job as a sixth grade humanities teacher in south Los Angeles. My master’s degree in education through a social justice graduate program radically changed how I approached teaching.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Following the news, my lesson plans for the day suddenly seemed ridiculous. This puts educators at extreme risk of unnecessary stress, burnout, and in some cases, leaving the profession altogether. I am human, and I deserve to be treated as such. I hadn’t faced a situation like this as a teacher. I am not made of steel.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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 lesson plans for teachers. The makers of these AI tools believe that technology can help stem the tide out of the profession.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

So they're safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. As I reflected on this challenge, considering how to move through it—whether to hold off on promoting certain books this year or whether to encourage teachers to build buffer time into lesson plans to allow for more discussion—something else struck me.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As opposed to, say, teaching students how to live “ the good life ,” or how to discern meaning through art and literature , or how to critique the very system that demands human productivity in exchange for pay in the first place. The college regularly conducts research to answer questions such as, “What are we teaching well?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality. They’ll pop into marketplaces, where they can, say, trade lesson plans they’ve created for tokens.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

It’s not just a question of exposure to advertising and commercial branding, but of the ethics of public education in an increasingly digital world. Related: Students’ worry: education technology might predict failure before they have a chance to succeed. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift They involve hiring and training tutors and coming up with tailored lesson plans for each child. You really need some combination of computer-assisted instruction and actual real live humans in order to make it work for the kids.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

A second opportunity reimagines training delivery methods using emerging technology. Mr. Shaterian is most excited about virtual reality, as existing teacher training models are human-based and therefore hard to scale. hours to 10 minutes.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

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