ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Navigating this terrain requires a delicate balance, ensuring that the joy and engagement of games enhance rather than detract from educational objectives while aiming to foster an inclusive and responsive pedagogy. It recognizes the importance of enjoyment, curiosity and exploration in facilitating effective learning experiences.

Pedagogy 130

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 7, 2013

As technology convergence and integration continues to increase generally in our society, it is paramount that teachers possess the skills and behaviors of digital age professionals. Educators should be comfortable teaching, working and learning in an increasingly connected global digital society. ?

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In many cases, they’ve grown up with access to incredibly immersive technology practically since birth. As a result, it can be difficult at times to compete for attention using traditional teaching methods like whiteboards, worksheets, and extended direct instruction.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Teachers with math anxiety spend fewer hours teaching it in the classroom, so its important to end that cycle now, Robinson says. Or they prefer reading and literacy over math.

Elementary School 123

Elementary School Middle School Pedagogy Humanities 123

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

More importantly, I will now be able to further assist my teachers in their quest to become better educators. The data that I will collect and share with them will serve as a catalyst for their improvement in the areas of teaching and learning. Classroom Walkthrough educational technology PLC TSETC'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. Value One of the drawbacks to educational technology is the perceived lack of value it has in terms of student learning and achievement.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. So, what can be done?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. The concept of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is another one that instructors might benefit from thinking about.

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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. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Perhaps it is because the virtues of Mexican and Indigenous spiritualities in Texas and Minnesota, where I’ve split my whole life, are so universal that it’s hard to not be drawn to their teachings and practices. At first, I was convinced I found a pedagogy ingrained with Indigenous wisdom that could further decolonize my teaching.

Cultures 137

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Image credit: https://media.licdn.com/ Worlds of Learning provides a framework that allows any educator to earn micro-credentials for free through learning about a range of technology tools and applications and then putting what they learn into practice in their own teaching.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

After years of exposure to early childhood curriculum and pedagogy, this is how our Black children discussed their Blackness at the end of their first grade school year: It means that I can be whatever I want. Earlier, I spoke about how Black children within my PWI responded when I initially asked them, What does being Black mean to you?

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Pedagogy High School Cultures History 101

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I'm an educator.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

Teaching 107

Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

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)." I questioned how my relative success navigating an oppressive education system influenced my teaching practices.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading.

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Teaching Education K-12 EdTech 122

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Her response stunned me, not just because she had yelled, but because of who she wasa student who had been a leader in my classroom, someone with whom I had built a strong relationship through teaching art the previous year. Then, I walked back inside and continued teaching. I walked over and quietly asked her to step outside with me.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality.” The cultivation of genius requires us “to teach in ways that raise, grow and develop their existing genius.” What better way to nurture criticality than through maximizing social media and other media platforms as a tool?

Teaching 110

Teaching Tradition Pedagogy Professional Development 110

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 27, 2015

George Couros said: Sometimes when the statement is made, “it is not about technology, it is about pedagogy”, you then hear the roars of approval, and off we go on our merry way with nothing changing for many students. Three competing visions of educational technology. via [link]. Replication or empowerment?

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Pedagogy Educational Technology Teaching Education 101

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. My answer: an immersive, 15-credit-hour semester of math.

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K-12 Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 139

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It’s easy to miss the scale of this as an ‘issue’ because unlike assessment, curriculum, teacher pay, class sizes, educational technology, or any other persistently evergreen edu-choke point, equity never stops affecting. It’s both the center and periphery of everything because we’re always who we are, where we are.

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Education Cultures Pedagogy Humanities 161

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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Educational Technology Pedagogy Cultures Teaching 127

ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Technology can also play a pivotal role by blending gamification and pedagogy to sustain student interest while teaching key skills. Successful approaches include engaging young children through interactive, hands-on activities such as using manipulatives like blocks and number cards to make abstract concepts tangible.

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K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Psychology 66

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I share this story not to encourage people to adopt African names, but because learners and educators should not have to attend graduate school to learn truths about pre-colonial Africa and American history. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr., and LaGarrett J.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 17, 2015

Adam Copeland said: It is time for instructors to move from simple questions like, “Do you use technology in the classroom?” to the more complex, “For what purpose, and with what learning theories, should I engage digitally-enhanced pedagogies?” If we taught our teens to drive the way we teach them about social media.

Pedagogy 101

Pedagogy Educational Technology Teaching Education 101

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. Teaching at two separate institutions means that Hall is balancing two different Outlook calendars simultaneously.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

For educators looking for adaptive and personalized standards-aligned math activities, Matific’s award-winning educational technology helps cater to different learning styles and situations.

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Pedagogy Educational Technology Education Teaching 89

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. However, as any teacher who has been forced to teach a scripted curriculum will tell you, rarely is it an effective course of action.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Sean Michael Morris knows that he has cultivated a certain “ethos” over his career in higher education—as a self-described critic of edtech and a champion of helping professors improve their teaching. It’s crucial that educators and edtech companies talk to one another,” tweeted Jesse Stommel, co-founder of the Digital Pedagogy Lab.

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EdTech Pedagogy Teaching History 130

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. math teaching predominantly focused on procedural skills, where students spent most of their time acquiring isolated skills through repetition.

Education 125

Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 125

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.

Pedagogy 101

Pedagogy Professional Development Teaching Tradition 101

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. AI isn't just a new tool; it is a shift in pedagogy. That wasn't the case.

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Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

This is an unfortunate case when best practices become so ingrained in our teaching practices that as the education system evolves, we have a hard time pivoting and accepting that what was once a “best” practice no longer works, is not one size fits all and maybe was never really the “best.” What Standard? Whose Standard?

Pedagogy 120

Pedagogy Charter School Cultures Library 120

ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a result, teaching students how to read is a complex and challenging endeavor — that’s why it takes years. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction.

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