ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

And while gameplay certainly delivers positive outcomes for students—emphasizing teamwork, strategic thinking and social-emotional development—educators don’t traditionally consider button mashing an academic pursuit. And the best part is educators don’t need experience coding either. Venneth defeats three-time champion Shininglice.

Tradition 107

Tradition Lesson Plan Elementary School High School 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A May 2021 report by a nonprofit online math provider, Zearn, found that students learned more math during the 2020-21 school year when truncated review material was woven into grade-level lessons than when they were retaught many of the previous year’s lessons. Educators have a lot of work ahead of them.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human. Educational spaces must show Black people, like me, that we are loved. In the context of Black history, that means showing that Black people are loved.

History 109

History Teaching Artifacts K-12 109

ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I wish I had worked with John to develop more traditional writing skills and set him up for the reality that he would not always be in a quiet environment where the computer could clearly hear what he wanted to say — or for that matter, that he would have access to a computer at all.

EdTech 109

EdTech Professional Development Tradition Lesson Plan 109

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While I loved working with that age group, I eventually left my school largely because administration favored scripted curriculum and discouraged teachers from augmenting lesson plans. My master’s degree in education through a social justice graduate program radically changed how I approached teaching. until 2:30 p.m.

Lesson Plan 104

Lesson Plan Social Justice Pedagogy Teaching 104

ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

We've always worked on software that personalizes things, videos — I still make videos — and exercises, teacher tools, in a more traditional sense, and now we're moving toward this artificial intelligence world. I'll say it's also been a bit of a transition internally at Khan Academy because it is a new muscle that we've been building.

Tutoring 127

Tutoring Humanities K-12 EdTech 127

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

Education 124

Education EdTech Government Tradition 124

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Tradition Elementary School 111

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The popularity of games and play-based learning has waxed and waned in the traditional American classroom, according to Alicia Miller, a science educator from Evans, Georgia, who’s always used “hands-on” activities in her classroom. There was a lot more unguided play when I started my teaching career 15 years ago.

Middle School 142

Middle School Teaching Lesson Plan History 142

ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The traditional resume? And education institutions likely would need to be able to explain how their programs prepare students for a skills-based employment system. One that hits a sweet spot, blending the rigor of traditional research methods with the convenience of modern technology. He thinks a new system is needed.

Government 120

Government Tradition Humanities Library 120

ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

Lesson Plan 97

Lesson Plan Classroom Management Professional Development Social Studies 97

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

In North Carolina, where I live, teachers are paid for “show time” with students, but there is little regard—and certainly no reward—for the hours of unpaid preparation and lesson planning it takes to keep a classroom running. I have always put in extra hours outside of the school day. It’s just a reality of the job. I felt trapped.

Teaching 104

Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 104

ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI.

Humanities 98

Humanities Psychology Library Education 98

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. But when I look at what’s there, it’s good stuff.”.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Social Studies Elementary School 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Indeed, despite the buzz around personalized learning, there’s no simple recipe for success, and the common ingredients — such as adaptive-learning technology and student control over learning — can backfire if poorly implemented. Most Basecamp schools make a lot of changes to the platform’s lesson plans, projects and assessments.

Charter School 85

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 85

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

Social Studies 114

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 114

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Young people are also organizing to stand up and speak out about the sex education they need and deserve, most recently in Miami-Dade , where they organized to pressure the school board to ensure the district offers science-based, research-backed sex education.

Social Justice 101

Social Justice K-12 Lesson Plan Advocacy 101

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.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Charter School Public School High School 98