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

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

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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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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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

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

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

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

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 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

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. 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.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Amanda Rosas Through her essays, Amanda Rosas , a high school teacher of Spanish and women’s studies in Minnesota raised awareness about the importance of human connection, gratitude as a pedagogical practice and the impact of perfectionism on language learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. How we care for our students is inextricably linked with how our ancestors cared for others, the children who were theirs and those who weren’t.

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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

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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

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 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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I mean, it's filtered by algorithms and so forth, but compared to something like a traditional paper or a book or something, [it] is relatively unfiltered, and you're making the decision about what to read and not, you're constantly leafing through these sorts of things, and only a small fraction of things online are probably worth your attention.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. The credentialing world has grown significantly in the last few years , resulting in an evolving and sometimes undefined digital education model.

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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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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

JANUARY 4, 2022

To fill the gap, some districts are partnering with community organizations to bring essential services to struggling students using human infrastructure that already exists. About one third of students of color said they did not have an adult at school with whom they could safely share their feelings.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

When it comes to personalization, CoRise is experimenting with both human intervention and AI bots. For Garg, the Stanford student, a human helper doesn’t always seem necessary. With a human being, I can just screenshot my question,” he says. Some reminders, information, nudges can be automated,” Bajaj says.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. There's lots of discussion of equity and education these days. And so I was interested to note that you argue in the book that “traditional grading violates any reasonable standard of equity.” But he wasn’t quite sure what to replace them with.

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ED Surge

JUNE 30, 2023

Writing this essay opened the door to self-exploration which I know will make me a better human and teacher. How can we imagine alternatives to schools in order to protect and humanize young people? Some asked questions about how to reimagine the traditional and alternative structures of teaching and learning environments.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 13, 2020

There are many opinions about the effectiveness of educational technology to improve learning. Others believe that there is an EdTech tool out there that is going to solve all of our problems in education. Neither of these approaches is the correct approach when considering using technology to improve learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. Supporting educators and administrators as they reach out to all families, not just those who are able to travel to school sites or board meetings, will have a huge impact on how we navigate this new school year and beyond.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. From self-checkout at the grocery store to the ability of AI to detect serious diseases on medical scans, workers in all areas find themselves working alongside tools that can do parts of their jobs.

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