ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. That applies to K-12 as well: Districts should be vetting accessibility as part of their procurement process, says Barker, of CAST.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Still, the rise of GAI is offering a rare glimpse of hope and promise amid K-12’s historic achievement lows and unprecedented teacher shortages. That’s why many educators are contemplating how to manage and monitor student AI use. Developing AI policies for K-12 schools is an ongoing conversation.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

While the vast majority of the conversations about AI in education have centered on K-12 and higher education, few have considered the potential of this innovation in early care and education settings. At least 20 sessions had the term “AI” in their title.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Related: Open Educational Resources haven’t upended the way that K-12 schools get course materials – yet. Some speakers said the rush to embrace new technological tools, apps and other learning materials often sweeps aside high-quality evaluation – which by definition cannot be rushed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Careers across all fields continue to become more integrated with, and dependent on, rapidly evolving digital technologies. K-12 learning opportunities must prepare students with the necessary skills to succeed in Industry 4.0. We are amidst a Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Now, we're ready to help teachers seamlessly create lesson plans and send them out to all students — even those who don't have broadband. We will package all of that content, whether it's an ebook or an educational video, along with the notes from the lesson plan and send it where it needs to go.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction. Legislators must begin regulating AI now.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

Teachers in K-12 schools are also beginning to push for similar protections against AI replacing educators. The National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union, recently put out a policy statement on the use of AI in education that stressed that human educators should “remain at the center of education.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Currently, I coach teachers across 18 K-12 schools in the Campbell Kapolei Complex Area in Ewa Beach and Kapolei Hawaii. When I work with educators, we often begin with a lesson plan that has been taught many times before and consider how we might tweak it to provide more choice.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools.

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

In January 2022, a National Education Association survey found that 55 percent of educators were thinking of leaving the profession earlier than planned, nearly double the number of teachers who said the same in July 2020. Most educators have not left, and many never will. labor force, at 44 percent.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

I think every K-12 teacher will look at tenured professors at the local university with envy because those professors have a lot of support. Here is a detailed breakdown of how I rated this paper in the dimensions of the rubric.” In some ways, this doesn’t leave much left for the teacher to do.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. So I mentioned the lesson plan before.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

Riling up many of these no-holds-barred K-12 scraps is “inclusivity.” If the textbooks, courseware, lesson plans and worksheets used in schools reflect all students’ realities, the argument goes, it will set all students up for real learning. But figuring out whether texts are inclusive can be difficult.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is a federal funding program to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education. Studies Weekly’s research-based K-8 curriculum fulfills this requirement and is a great resource that teachers and administrators can use to close the learning gap.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Debilitating slowdowns and districtwide outages in past years have been so common that some Nome teachers even now prepare two lesson plans per class—one to use if the internet cooperates and one that requires only textbooks.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

It's not only affecting our teachers and our admin, it's also affecting us,” says Shelly Ruff, a K-12 client success manager at Instructure. That program also allows teachers and administrators to give substitutes access to lesson plans and homework, making them more than a babysitter, Daly indicated.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

Recently, lawmakers in Iowa penned a bill that, if passed, would have required cameras in every K-12 classroom in the state. These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. Yes, I’m deviating from my lesson plans. The lesson plan would still be there.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

To some degree, our education system still perpetuates this flat and one-dimensional idea about the fragility of Black life. Educational spaces must show Black people, like me, that we are loved.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There is clearly still a crucial need for parents and caregivers; educators; and LGBTQ-affirming, medically accurate and culturally responsive curriculum in this equation. Though comprehensive sex education has been stripped from some brick-and-mortar classrooms, lesson plans and digital resources compiled by experts have migrated online.

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