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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

This information will then be reviewed at the initial meeting for reflection and goal-setting to grow and improve. This 18-question rubric asks school leaders to reflect on their perceptions of where their school falls, from needing to start to well-developed. It also provides insight into all elements of school culture and student learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It seems that every day I’m introduced to a new tech tool that promises to change education. While the premise of many possesses potential, the challenge is to determine which tools are or will have a real impact on education.

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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operating hours, quality rating — but details about their enrollment availability is often either not listed or long out-of-date.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

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The resulting insights can then be shared with all actors — instructors, mentors and learners — enabling them to make informed decisions about the learner’s next steps toward their goal. How can we use this performative-based assessment approach in education? Other sectors’ assessment practices can inform new approaches in education.

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

They have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet harnessing it to drive meaningful change remains a challenge. A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. Colleges and universities are at a crossroads when it comes to student data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura.

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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

These days, computing power and algorithms have advanced to the level where neuroscience and AI are helping to inform each other, and even challenge our traditional understanding of what thinking is all about, he says. What has really been revealed is that we don't understand what ‘understanding’ is,” says Sejnowski.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Naturally, all this is causing concern among some educators, who see students off-loading the hard work of synthesizing information to AI at a pace never before possible. Most of the tools are free, and do their work in seconds with the click of a button.

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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

APRIL 23, 2025

Without real exposure to different career paths or learning about careers they may never have heard of, students often make choices based on limited information, missing out on opportunities that align with their skills and interests. Leveraging Technology for Career Exploration Technology can bridge this gap in support in many ways.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

But the cards use stars rather than an A-F scale, and the way information is presented makes it hard for families to discern which schools will suit their child or to compare school performance year-over-year, researchers say. It might not be obvious, for example, that schools across the state arent graded in the same way.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Armed with this holistic perspective, educators can make well-informed decisions about tailoring individualized instruction to effectively address the unique needs of their diverse student population. It's not only about making education more engaging; it's also about making it more effective.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Beyond her work with students, Rhue is also committed to collaborating with their teachers, helping, for example, to impart her own knowledge of media and information literacy so they can pass it along to learners in their care. I think that's something that's missing from the conversation about education, where school librarians come in.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I have built systems in my lesson planning approach that keep me organized because I know I cannot hold all this information in my brain. I now believe neurodivergent teachers are an asset to the classroom because we have direct experience with the difficulties of receiving information and processing it.

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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 22, 2024

But he argues that the chatbot interviewer can collect far richer information than the kind of static online surveys that are typical when researchers want to sample large populations. “So Jaravel agrees that in-depth interviews that are more typical in ethnographic research are far superior to anything their chatbot system could do.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2024

AI readiness ensures that students can thrive in the future as informed users and developers of emerging technologies, including AI. Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) embraced AI technology by launching a K-12 AI Ready pilot in 2019, embedding AI Ready learning across content areas through the lens of the AI Learning Framework.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Joseph Mancuso , Superintendent of Eastern York School District , and Michael Calvert , Director of Elementary Education at South Allegheny School District. Their Pennsylvania districts are using real-time data to inform instruction, foster student ownership of learning and support teachers in meeting the varied needs of their students.

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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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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 4, 2024

While the fear of neglecting academic content is real, retaining information when anxious or unsafe is impossible. What they’ll remember the most will be those moments where they continued building community with their classmates. As teachers, we can learn a lot about our students when we just let them be.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

You cant make informed decisions if you dont know how it works. You cant make informed decisions if you dont know how it works. We are trying to pull back the curtain on AI and demystify it for our students. We want them first to be able to identify the use of AI and have, at minimum, a general understanding of how it works.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Educators are testing ways to manage some of the problems that this type of social media content is associated with: students having trouble paying attention, absorbing information and feeling connected at school. The fast-paced content ecosystem on social media can likewise affect how students learn and retain information.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some of these bonds have grown into deep friendships, and others have turned into formal or informal mentorships. In contrast, during periods when I felt isolated from other educators, I considered leaving the school or even the profession altogether.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Digital Promise first launched our Micro-credential Policy Map in January 2020 to share valuable information on how states and districts across the U.S. were engaging with micro-credentials. Since then, micro-credential interest, earning, and pathways have only increased. Micro-credentials are a quickly shifting landscape.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Image credit: 3P Learning How does Marlin use data to inform early learning instruction and interventions? Once we had this information, we implemented targeted interventions during the school day. Finally, we must embrace the data and information and respond realistically. Jargon wont solve anything.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Some of the rules included using the word “I” instead of “we or us” and bringing lessons learned outside of the room, but not sharing anyone’s personal information. Delano also had the whole group make a community agreement, or a list of rules for everyone to follow to ensure they were remaining respectful.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“I would compare it very much to when smartphones really came on the scene and became a regular part of our everyday lives,” says Kyle Bowen, a longtime edtech expert who is now deputy chief information officer at Arizona State University, noting that these glasses might impact a range of activities if they catch on, including education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The rides present children with an informal opportunity to interact with their grandfriends, with whom they share a daytime address, popping into residents rooms and seeing whos out and about in the common areas. The children will talk and sing songs to the seniors.

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ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

Weisenfeld adds, of her colleagues at NIEER: We share information about this program all the time. I dont feel like this program has shrunk in that way. Its stayed, she says. I think theyre going to be more successful than other places. We say to city people, Why dont you talk to Multnomah County?

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

Competency-based progression models can ensure students are building long-term skills, not just memorizing information. Interactive simulations and gamified learning experiences can make complex concepts more engaging and applicable to real-world scenarios.

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