ED Surge

MAY 9, 2022

In places like San Diego and Santa Fe , school districts worked alongside youth programs and museums to offer experiences that felt and looked more like summer camp. Last year, ESSER dollars propelled innovative district-community partnerships, which offered much more than “summer school.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Or if a child is fascinated with, say, dinosaurs or trees, AI can provide parents and educators with prompts for further learning or perhaps connect them to the nearest natural history museum or arborist.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2023

The first was designed to explore terraforming Earth and the second was developed to learn about Egyptian history by exploring a virtual museum. I created these two lesson plans around Merge Cubes, which let you hold digital 3D objects — or holograms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

They’re rejecting time- and place-based education; creating low-cost degrees; adopting competency- or outcome-based education; emphasizing digital technologies; focusing on populations underrepresented in traditional higher education; and offering pioneering subject matters and certifications.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

A survey of college students last month by Top Hat, a higher education technology company based in Toronto, found that 85 percent said they missed face-to-face interactions with faculty, and 86 percent missed socializing with other students. But students, it turns out, also crave what technology cannot deliver.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Transform : These are longer-range solutions that school systems might consider in order to fundamentally redesign the educator role. These solutions aren’t ones that are ready-made overnight.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Learning can happen anywhere — in a classroom, in a park, on a field trip or at a museum. The other two special education teachers at my school also shared a classroom. But, the reality is that space matters. I had a classroom last year, and while it was shared with my math counterpart, it was large and just for us.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

These districts have forged partnerships with museums, workforce development agencies, philanthropic organizations, higher-ed institutions, after-school programs, and local businesses to provide students with more opportunities to pursue their passions, and develop their skillsets.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Both students circulated to visit their other favorite teachers with whom they’d crafted solar ovens, made plant medicine tinctures and built a banana museum. On the way out of the building, they hugged and dapped up underclassmen they played soccer with or were involved in the student union with when they were students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A lot of children have never been to a museum, never been to cool places in the big city. So far it has accomplished that goal. We’re a rural community. We don't have that much funding, and our kids come from very poor homes and backgrounds. With the immersive room, basically we can recreate any of that.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

On Todd’s free day, he headed to the Louvre, arriving early enough to enter as soon as the museum opened. “I In January 2019, he spent two weeks studying abroad in Paris with UVa’s adult learner program, touring Victor Hugo’s home and examining the author’s handwritten notes for “Les Miserables.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Fried has introduced biochemistry to students of various ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses in schools and museums, finding that all of them happily grapple with the curriculum. Nearly 70 percent of district administrators said they considered engagement to be the most effective sign that a piece of educational technology is useful.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Some of her clients do want to stay in education, as teacher coaches, curriculum designers or to work for education technology companies, often in sales and customer support roles. Others want a fresh start.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Natalie Williams, director of education at Miami Children’s Museum in Florida, has a combination of student loan debt from her undergraduate program and two master’s programs. Under the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program, and as a Pell Grant recipient, Moline expects to have $20,000 of her total debt forgiven.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One, for example, was: “Describe two ways that people care for the violin at the museum that show the violin is valuable.”. The education context is different,” said Sundararajan. First they trained their models by having them digest the scores that humans had given to thousands of student responses on these exact same questions.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That typology, as they call it, includes activism, pedagogy and the kind of knowledge acquired in hands-on humanities work in libraries and museums, journalism and public policy.

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