ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. Despite my hesitance, I recently took on a leadership role at my school for a few reasons. “You can pursue more than one path,” I told myself.

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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. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, if you instead teach students how to use a device they already have in their pockets, you’re empowering kids to use technology anywhere. The social studies activity Space Race in McGraw Hill AR How has incorporating AR in your classroom enhanced the learning experience for your students?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 25, 2017

Audrey Watters said: These new technologies, oriented towards consumers and consumption, privilege an ideology of individualism. In education technology, as in advertising, this is labeled “personalization.” So we see education being reframed as a technologically-enhanced series of choices – consumer choices.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That’s according to Matt Townsley, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Northern Iowa, who has written books about changing grading systems and who has helped schools switch to standards-based systems. It recognizes the individual journey of every student.

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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. That said, EL’s leadership now relies heavily on technology to spread Crew and expeditionary learning concepts more broadly.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

Name : Annie Talley Ochoa Age : 44 Current town : Cupertino, California College : Alliant University through a TeachStart Fellowship Area of study : High school social studies Hometown : Corona, California EdSurge: When did you realize that you wanted to become a teacher? Was there a specific moment? We need teachers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

She enrolled in an online undergraduate program to pursue her bachelor’s degree, with plans to become a high school social studies teacher. Four years ago, after moving back to Alaska with her husband, who got a job at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, an opportunity presented itself. She decided to give college another shot.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Lusher enrolls students in kindergarten through 12th grade across its two buildings.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. It was through the MIT social scene that Resnick connected with Duffy, a Somerville native who studied environmental engineering and creative writing. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. Theories vary.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Since starting my career, the dynamic of my department has changed a few times, so I’ve taught ELA by itself as well as ELA and social studies. Currently I am on a team of two [fourth grade teachers], so I teach ELA and social studies while my partner teaches math and science.

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