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

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

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. The Almost-Librarian On the first floor of the Clemons Library at the University of Virginia, there are stacks of bookshelves that expand and contract. That’s cool.’”

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In schools, creativity can be harder to imagine in core subject areas like math and easier to associate with humanities and arts. Martha Bongiorno School Library and Instructional Technology Lead at Fulton County Schools How did the pandemic affect creativity?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. Luis Gallardo, student, University of California, Berkeley.

Political Science 145

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The educators we asked responded with a resounding—nope. Emily Wilt, a high school library media specialist in Indiana who runs her library’s TikTok account , meets with upperclassmen at the start of each school year to talk about research best practices. Are they turning to TikTok for school research papers, for instance?

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

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. to transition away from human slavery as its dependent workforce for crop production and infrastructure development. In the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection, we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. In 1994, Dr. Gloria Ladson Billings published a book titled “ The Dreamkeepers.”

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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.

Civic Engagement 136

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ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Below are nine key themes that emerged from our panel, along with a few action items to help education leaders enable equitable education in their schools or districts. We must not let the flood of tech tools overshadow the necessary human element of education. Technology cannot replace human connections.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

We were able to discuss AI and equity and spent time writing and calibrating rubrics, learning how to give feedback, and differentiating between the feedback of a human versus AI, which remains part of my skill set even after the end of the project.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Programs that increase accessibility and trust with parents include “Cafe en el Parque,” a parent meeting held in Spanish that draws in more than100 families each month, and the “Emergent Bilingual” program, which meets after school and on weekends helps new immigrant students and families learn more about how the American education system works.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2023

Composed of high-quality, human-read audiobooks and a suite of teacher resources to monitor and support student progress, the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution is designed to turn struggling readers into engaged learners.

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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. Absolutely not.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. The new AI-generated prompts may also help children, but not as much as reading with a skilled human adult, such as a teacher, parent or tutor — and they should not be used to replace that experience.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. history, European history, human geography, AP government. But there were also a lot of times when I realized how interested I was in history and social studies and was wondering what I could do with that. A lot of people suggested I go into teaching. For the most part it's been positive.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

I think the arts and humanities gives us a site for doing all of those things.” Maybe the humanities will be just fine. Some teachers are former Night School Bar students, others were actively recruited, and still others signed up after hearing about the mission, Andrews says: “The humanities are for everybody.”

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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. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. He passed out copies of the image to each member of the class. No internet.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 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. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2023

Duenyas, an associate professor of counselor education, is a former teacher and certified counselor. Perkins, an associate professor of technology education, has a background in library science and art education.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

And in some cases that has caused new kinds of challenges, since those fees are often paid by college libraries, and not every scholar in every discipline has equal access to support. How does that change so that even the humanities are doing more open access? The number of open access journals has grown over the years.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

In my role as school librarian, for example, it has affected everything from the library checkout schedule to my collaboration with teachers and even my direct interaction with students. As students returned to the library in person, many seemed lost when it came to choosing books. Jemisin, just to name a few. They never leave.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2022

Wi-Fi is out, and I’m writing this at the library. This went for Kris too, and the 30 or so kids assigned to my teaching team who were facing similar issues with things we would consider basic human needs and privileges. Tell the other teachers.” The family couldn’t pay to keep their phones on either.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

A human would likely never spot such complex patterns. The human element. The ID records included when students entered classroom buildings, returned to the dorm at night, checked out library books or bought a coffee. But with the use of data analytics, advisers at Georgia State now can. The analytics are just a tool, though.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

Not to just sit in the library and do a long problem; it wasn’t about that for me. The goal is for] girls just being able to bring their full humanity to the space. How do we engage our young Black girls into mathematics in a way that we know to be productive and humanizing? So it’s advocacy that really changed my life.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Endless OS Foundation leveraged this response by developing an operating system that supports all these openly available tools along with a curated library of K-12 learning resources , in collaboration with open-source aligned nonprofits like Kiwix and Learning Equality , that can be used with or without the internet.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Theres nothing like one-to-one interaction with a human being, Perez says. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Shes also one of the people having the most fun. Perez, known as Ms.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

I picked what I could afford from a fluorescently lit food court, ate alone between classes and trips to the library, and gave nutrition little thought. This model of taking what I could get became how I fed myself throughout college. When I became a teacher, my eating habits got even worse.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

And there are thorny and unresolved ethical issues around how much and in what instances it's appropriate to have a bot perform tasks that were once thought only things that humans could or should do. There’s also the question of how AI literacy fits into efforts to teach coding skills in schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2025

Many of the top stories raise fundamental questions about higher education. What resources should be offered (in places like the campus library)? But at least one longtime AI developer argues that it isnt possible, and that the best use of AI is to assist human tutors and teachers, not replace them.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In searching for a theme song that fit, I spent hours clicking around on online music libraries including the Free Music Archive for songs with just the right mix of seriousness and playfulness to encapsulate our weekly interview show about the future of learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

Books were pulled from libraries. Similarly, the ACLU argues that the agency has methodically removed references to race and gender from its school libraries and classroom lessons. Davids objecting to the academys decision to remove 381 books discussing race, gender and sexuality from its Nimitz Library.

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