ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. But the researcher says he has heard from hundreds of teachers who have reported improvements in test scores. How did that go? Teachers hated it.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Digital Promise launched a crowdsourcing effort on how companies use scientific research to design and develop their educational technology products. If you’re interested in sharing your company’s research-based approach, be sure to submit them here. How do you use research?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. I'm an educator. So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. I know it’s not flashy, aligned to research, or even directly connected to pedagogy….but

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EdTech Pedagogy Library Middle School 222

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do. I am very proud of that fact.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As I thought about the student's frustrations, I returned to an article by Dr. Alexis Patterson and Dr. Salina Gray titled " Teaching to Transform: (W)holistic Science Pedagogy (WSP)." Although it involved several hours of researching and compiling resources, it was a humbling experience to incorporate student input into content design.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Research shows that children from low-income families often start school with fewer numeracy skills than their peers, putting them at an academic disadvantage. High-quality, research-based numeracy programs offer an opportunity to bridge these gaps.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

Thank you for your work on the front lines to ensure our children and youth’s health and education were sustained throughout this difficult year. As Digital Promise team members who have researched and supported teachers’ use of educational technology, we want to recognize and celebrate your successes.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, as with any shift in traditional practices, there are some kinks to be worked out in terms of leveraging technology to our greatest advantage. Through research and trials, Hall found CalendarBridge , which addresses his scheduling pain point.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

This year, our Instructional Technology Initiative (ITI) team sought new ways to engage our students in STEM and digital literacy, specifically to help meet district goals in computer science and digital citizenship.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Gutierrez says that it limits the tutors' access to the “intensive supports” that tutors who’re working as extra educators need in order to be effective. From the outside, it’s also not clear what these for-profits are doing for pedagogy, training and efficacy, beyond perhaps student surveys, he says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Confirmingly, research shows that adult learners self-report lower levels of math self-efficacy and higher levels of math anxiety than traditional undergraduates. These findings further exacerbate the challenge of training math-confident educators as our nation works to address unfinished math learning throughout K-12 due to the pandemic.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

As I searched for the “why” behind my contradictions, I thought about research and best practices and found a disconnect between the standards expected of “urban” schools—code for schools that serve predominantly Black and Brown students—and schools that are considered “elite” and exemplar.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2022

It’s an issue that two researchers at UCLA, Jane Margolis and Jean Ryoo, have been digging into in their scholarly work—a phenomenon they call “preparatory privilege.” EdSurge: Why did you turn your research into a graphic novel? EdSurge: Why did you turn your research into a graphic novel?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Teachers were burnt out, the national turnover rate was high and our school didn’t have the capacity to train staff to facilitate community-building circles and implement socio-emotional pedagogy. Considering these adverse factors, the school leaders decided to invest in our students’ well-being and purchase a packaged curriculum.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math education and I think a lot about my years in the classroom. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

Entrepreneurs and developers try to make the best possible drug to treat students, while administrators and researchers (myself included) stand guard, testing and validating the treatments. Even our pedagogies model this thinking. This doesn’t mean this kind of research should stop. Papert diagnosed this issue back in 1987.

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EdTech Cultures Pedagogy Humanities 142

ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally facilitate spaces for Black women across and outside the gender spectrum and learn more about their experiences in this climate, as much recent research covers pre-pandemic educator experiences. A Collaborative, Community-Based Research Project.in

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Education Charter School Pedagogy Research 132

ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). The Science of Reading : Imagine Learning's core, supplemental and intervention products that bridge the gap between pedagogy and classroom instruction.

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Pedagogy Psychology Cultures Teaching 116

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Even back in 2001, an in-depth study of an online-education effort at the State University of New York reported that most faculty who taught remotely found the techniques they discovered online positively impacted their campus instruction when they returned to the classroom. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“I worked as an administrator for 10 years, so I think about edtech from both sides — both how an administrator makes decisions about edtech tools, but also how we can support our teachers,” Ballard shared in a focus group that was part of a larger project designed to better understand the gap between teaching practices and technology use.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

mainly comes in a few fixed shapes and sizes: the research university, the liberal arts college, the community college, the technical college. The paper was published by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab at MIT. It’s broadening how we think about research,” Henderson said in an interview. College in the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

But if you ask Daniel Fung, vice principal and English teacher at the Sham Tseng Catholic School in Hong Kong, he will tell you computational thinking is an entire pedagogy geared toward teaching lifelong problem-solving skills. CT curriculum is not just about coding but rather a pedagogy and mindset.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls the “The Leaking Spanish Bilingual Education Teacher Pipeline.” So why is there a shortage of these educators? Esmeralda told researchers. “I

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Multicultural Education K-12 Pedagogy Research 143

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Yet, PBL as a pedagogy has seen varied levels of adoption in math classrooms across the United States, with many math teachers falling back on traditional teachings of formulas and procedures. It encouraged teachers to design learning experiences that engaged students in meaningful mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

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Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 129

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

candidate in the higher educational leadership program at Georgia Southern University. He can go from talking about STC’s role in reinvigorating Savannah’s tax base, to the finer points of Heidegger and Kierkegaard, to theories about pedagogy without missing a beat. Dean of Adult Education, Savannah Technical College.

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Pedagogy Community Engagement Leadership Educational Technology 109

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Former educators told us they had moved on to become UX designers, part of sales teams and founders of their own edtech companies.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

To address these challenges, we need to understand how they are experienced in different settings—from small, rural districts to large, urban districts—and we need to learn from educators and researchers who are working to solve these issues. Teaching with Technology. Introducing the Challenge Map. League Superintendent.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

AI isn't just a new tool; it is a shift in pedagogy. How can educators address the concern about students using AI to cheat? Youngpradit: There is research out of Stanford that found that the prevalence of cheating overall remained the same with the introduction of ChatGPT. Teachers need strategies and thought partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Nearly half of the more than 1,200 education technology vendor websites used by teachers and students, and checked in an October audit, did not include a secure log-in, according to a new survey. We want to talk about pedagogy.”. Schools, both K-12 and higher education, have been victims, too.

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K-12 Education Pedagogy Educational Technology 100

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the classroom, researchers don’t know much about what works for anxiety, Ganley says. Having students reframe their feelings as excitement rather than anxiety or having them journal about their anxiety before taking a test may help, some researchers suggest. But there are things that instructors can do, some researchers say.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Around this time, learning scientists picked up on the educational potential of gaming and began running research studies, largely with National Science Foundation (NSF) dollars. MacArthur pulled from both the academic and commercial communities, and important research started to emerge from university consortia and non-profits.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Or even newer math ?)

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Armed with full knowledge of the issue, they dove into the research, recorded public service announcements and canvassed their community for advocates. Community service, civic engagement and service-learning are often used interchangeably in education. Personally, I believe that teaching SEL as a stand-alone is poor pedagogy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

The CoolThink pedagogy emphasizes To Play, To Think, To Code, To Reflect. But when we introduced the CoolThink curriculum in our school, she did a lot of research online to learn and create different apps. The CoolThink Pedagogy. How do teachers and students benefit from a problem-centered coding curriculum?

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