A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

However, the mounting pressure from ridiculous mandates as a result of the current education reform movement and massive budget cuts across the country, have made it a challenge to learn through traditional pathways. They are able to follow their specific learning passions by connecting with like-minded individuals.

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APRIL 30, 2018

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. The great gains from human tutoring are often cited as evidence for so-called “personalized” learning, which sometimes refers to using education software that adapts to each child’s instructional needs. They’re night and day different,” said Slavin.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Teaching is more than delivering contentits about modeling humanity, and my apology that day reshaped my understanding of educations deeper purpose. Education as a Humanizing Practice In Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paulo Freire argues that education should make students more human.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

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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As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures. Kestin provocatively titled his paper about the experiment, “ AI Tutoring Outperforms Active Learning ,” but in an interview he told me that he doesn’t mean to suggest that AI should replace professors or traditional in-person classes. “I

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Is it time to give traditional letter grade systems an F and replace them with alternatives that focus more on getting more students to master material? But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with. Thanks for listening!

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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. AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, as with any shift in traditional practices, there are some kinks to be worked out in terms of leveraging technology to our greatest advantage. Use of a digital calendar management tool assures the elimination of overlapping meetings and additional scheduling mix-ups.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. That disparity widened among supervisors: 49 percent placed high value on traditional degrees and 28 percent placed high value on alternative credentials.

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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. Herein lies the dilemma.

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APRIL 20, 2020

Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback.

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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Artificial Tools, Human Judgments When EdSurge first spoke to Kohn, the lab coordinator, he was using ChatGPT as a teacher’s assistant in biology courses. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot. Sometimes, he said, the chatbot was just off the mark.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and online while still preserving the magic of human interaction. Ironically, though, it was the lack of human interaction that became the central issue.

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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. Yet there is a significant difference between Play the Knave and Shakespeare-VR when it comes to what traditionally has been a key component of theater: the audience.

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

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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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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. Johnsrud In this sense, traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. Traditionally, education has focused on teaching students to perform specific tasks.

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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. During the pandemic, she saw creativity pushed away as schools scrambled to get the traditional core content out to students. However, creativity shouldn’t be reserved for just those content areas.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The majority of educational technology is designed for student use. Higher Education. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It was only in the ’70s that we started recruiting traditional-aged students onto a campus. It was changing our technology. We had to negotiate with our traditional faculty who really controlled what we could do and not do — to get a little bit of breathing space to do what we wanted to do. So it was always in our DNA.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It’s not like we’re born as human beings knowing how to read a bar chart,” Schwabish says. I think that education can’t come early enough, and we're hoping the materials are low enough hanging fruit so educators can use them.” It’s not in our DNA; we have to learn it.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

And they’re looking for that learning to not just come from traditional education sources but also from their employer.” “Half of U.S. workers right now—so that’s 100 million workers—believe that in the next five years they’re going to need some sort of new skill to advance in their career. Data will play a larger role.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. Humanizing the Hijab These instances from parents, fellow teachers and students not only revealed their lack of understanding of Islamic culture but also underscored the importance of explaining and dismantling these stereotypes within my own school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

McGrath Another key strategy involves adopting a multi-layered approach to workforce feedback , which challenges the traditional top-down model. Systemwide changes tend to provoke a natural human reaction of resistance. Stakeholders question, “What’s in it for me?” This is known as the WIIFM factor.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Then there's the more constructivist orientation: games as sites for meaning-making, in the Piagetian tradition. Because, as humans, we're ultimately rewarded by finding our place in the world, getting recognized by people we care about, making an authentic contribution.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. I am acutely aware that this kind of effort takes significant financial and human resources. But we’re not taking a close enough look at the role educators play and how to support their well-being.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. Spence is also the founder of the nonprofit Make It Movement , whose goal is to encourage young people to seek college or other high-quality educational options after high school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

And with his long academic interest and expertise in kinesiology, which is the study of human movement, he has an idea. Very few of us as humans learn to sit still and focus for two hours,” he said. “At The situation is so bad that he’s happy if he can get one student to raise their hand, even if it’s the same student every class.

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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 traditional resume? Creating and maintaining something like the O*NET system takes a lot of work.

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