Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Despite the challenges associated with this moment in education, technology is rapidly evolving to allow students more opportunities to engage in social learning spaces online. Requiring students to produce something tangible provides the teacher with informal data about how the group performed and creates urgency around the work.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

If a team digging a tunnel in Tennessee discovers unusual soil conditions and attempts an innovative approach to managing those conditions, federal coordination and information management makes it possible for teams in, say, Arkansas and elsewhere around the country to access those lessons learned when they discover similar soil conditions.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

During the class the student responses will appear as bold informational graphics in real-time. As the class begins, ask the students to use the participation code to log in to sugukiku.com via their devices.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

That’s according to a new study by the News Literacy Project, which also found that teens struggle with identifying false information online. This comes at a time when media literacy education isn’t available to most students, the report finds, and their ability to distinguish between objective and biased information sources is weak.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

It was a normal-looking school newsletter: a three-page PDF with information about upcoming events, decorated with colorful clip art of flowers. Virtually all of them agree that they want shared information to be accessible to everyone in their school community, and frankly, who wouldn’t? I knew exactly what she meant.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released an AI report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning. The report outlined recommendations for guidelines and guardrails for the responsible use of AI in educational technology. . — Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. million students in over 880 LEAs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

A deeper understanding of their motivating factors can help universities adjust communications with future prospective students, as well as inform additional services they can provide to ensure that students are successful while in university through to graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s why the development of AI-powered tools that can accommodate all learners must be a priority for policymakers, districts and the education technology industry. Digital media is visual, and to broaden access, developers usually have to manually code descriptive information into every interface.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2023

You shouldn't be in educational technology if you don't have a logic model — if you don't know what you're solving. You shouldn't be in educational technology if you don't have a logic model — if you don't know what you're solving.” Everybody should have a Level IV,” Gunderia said plainly.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. The growing reliance on data and analytics to help build that ecosystem.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Equipping Teachers With AI Expertise To truly realize the potential of AI, there is a need for a technology-literate, fully engaged workforce. Department of Education Office of Educational Technologys AI policy report addresses the clear need to share knowledge, engage educators and refine policies for AI use in education.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In my eighteen years of working in education … I’ve never encountered a platform that requires such a bizarre consent letter. Tony DePrato “In my eighteen years of working in education … I’ve never encountered a platform that requires such a bizarre consent letter,” wrote Tony DePrato, chief information officer at St.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. If you build it, will it work?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We are developing these resources for educational leaders to define and operationalize AI for educators. Artificial Intelligence, like all educational technology, has the ability to reproduce existing inequities in education.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. Rocio Raña is the CEO and co-founder of LangInnov, a company that uses automated scoring for its language and literacy assessments for bilingual students and is working on another one for writing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

They will use the data collected during this time to inform policies drafted in the future. Ted Mo Chen is vice president of globalization for the education technology company ClassIn. A recent Brookings report highlighted the confusion around policies for these new tools.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. EdSurge: In the book you argue that one of the most important things to do when sorting through information online is what you call “critical ignoring.”

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ED Surge

MAY 18, 2023

And the companies that provide these tools aren’t always careful stewards of the sometimes-sensitive information they collect from students. educational institutions shared that data with third parties. And it's common in other industries with sensitive information like financial services, King adds.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Hillman says that he began looking at geography out of frustration with an emphasis during the Obama administration on providing consumer information about higher education as a solution to college access. For people he knew there, information about college was not what was keeping them from enrolling. “If

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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. In surveys, teachers said it changes how they review homework.

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Inclusive Design Inclusive design in educational technology is crucial to ensure that all students, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds, have equal access to learning opportunities. Choose tools that offer customizable settings, allowing teachers to adjust the difficulty level and content to meet the needs of their students.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As we started asking educators, administrators and experts about the issue as part of an investigation into how teachers inform the development of edtech products , everyone agreed: teacher voice should be part of edtech decisions. Technology doesn't replace the teacher.” So what explains the disconnect?

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Hillary Robbins, who spent 10 years as an elementary and middle school teacher in Texas, says she scoured the internet for information on making the jump to edtech before making any moves.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

As a result, orientations are required to cover much more information now than even a few years ago, says Jenny Osborn, associate director of the first year experience at The Ohio State University. The goal, Murray adds, is to spread information out over time, while also encouraging students to connect with one another. “We

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, Patrick Suppes, a Stanford University philosophy professor and pioneer of computerized tutoring, said in 1966 that students would someday have “the personal services of a tutor as well informed and as responsive as Aristotle.” Well, that virtual Aristotle is here. What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even the AI tools that are trained using the same information could still give unique results! In government class the other day, we used AI to gather background information on past political parties. I have also held class discussions about how AI works and how it is trained with information from the internet.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Yet, with significant findings in key areas related to neuroscience and technology, educators are now one step closer to understanding the biological and environmental underpinnings of the learning process, a review of which may serve as a starting point for discussions and reconsideration of novel instructional methods.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. schools and districts to find out how often they contained personally identifying information (PII) from students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

“A critical part of innovation is our ability to identify and provide the tools that will allow students to create, learn and thrive anytime, anywhere,” explained Kermit Belcher, assistant superintendent and chief information officer. Learn more about Project 10Million and how to apply.

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ED Surge

MAY 27, 2022

As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice. Matt Gibson spends a lot of his time thinking about how people learn.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

We take a bottom-up approach to education technology in a way that is contextual and responsible. We enable organizations to have ownership over how they contextualize education technology specific to their local needs and experience. All of this is part of our theory of change.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

. — Richard Culatta The urgency of such educational initiatives is underscored by a Pew Research Survey revealing that 44 percent of adults aged 18 to 49 report they are online almost constantly. Informed is about gathering credible information to process what you see online. So we shifted our strategy.

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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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