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

JANUARY 21, 2025

I'm an educator. I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Teaching is more than delivering contentits about modeling humanity, and my apology that day reshaped my understanding of educations deeper purpose. Education as a Humanizing Practice In Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paulo Freire argues that education should make students more human.

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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. Use of a digital calendar management tool assures the elimination of overlapping meetings and additional scheduling mix-ups.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. It's a pedagogy, it's a framework for helping teachers enact whatever curriculum that they have to work with. Curriculum is mandated, pedagogy is professional.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

AI isn't just a new tool; it is a shift in pedagogy. Using calculators increased mathematical thinking skills, but not just by themselves; there was a lot of really thoughtful pedagogy on when and how to introduce calculators. What are the equity and ethical considerations when it comes to AI use? That wasn't the case.

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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. Taking a more critical look at edtech. We need to make a change.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2022

Jane Margolis: One is the importance of pedagogy in computer science education—specifically about culturally relevant pedagogy. The education needs to be linked to the outside world. There's been this traditional notion of computer science as just being zeros and ones and objective.

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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

MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s a pendulum swing, that we need to get people back in the classrooms,” says David Rhoads, director of hybrid and emerging pedagogy at Vanguard University in California, who considers himself a proponent of HyFlex teaching. I would love to ask faculty, ‘Do you know of any research on traditional education showing the efficacy?’”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

The CoolThink pedagogy emphasizes To Play, To Think, To Code, To Reflect. For example, one of our students did not excel in the traditional curriculum despite being very creative and logical. The CoolThink Pedagogy. We guide [students] to observe, think about critical features and problem-solve before they start to code.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The proposed NEI would skip any climbing wall and focus on what Sarma calls a “very lean physical plant focused on pedagogy, students and outcomes.” Some colleges already do this, but the practice takes considerable effort to coordinate, and it has not caught on widely at traditional universities.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Throughout her career, Swan has been interested in inquiry-based pedagogy, drawing from her experiences as a teacher. Despite initially having reservations about standards, she became the lead writer and project director of the College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework , a set of national standards for social studies education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

To expand the nation’s technical talent pool, Chinese universities are upgrading their capacity to offer more up-to-date science and technology courses, with universities just beginning to introduce degrees in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering and other advanced specialties.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What kind of learning games would work for more ordinary teachers, and where would games fit into the traditional curriculum? What is the right alchemy of pedagogy, subject-matter coverage, assessment and teacher professional development that would ultimately see learning games integrated into schools?

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. Finding the Elephants Since there was little to no Black representation in my classroom content during my adolescence, I took it upon myself to seek this knowledge out in college.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2022

Given the variety of ways in which high school GPAs were assigned or used during the pandemic, a traditional understanding of high school GPA may not fit grades assigned during this time.” Of course, it’s not good pedagogy to give students higher grades than the ones they earned—except when it is. There’s this sort of paradox to it.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. The residency is similar to traditional student teaching experiences, except it lasts a full year and pays about $30,000.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

As a Black woman who started my career working closely with engineers and then moved on to lead diversity and inclusion efforts at a major telecommunications corporation, I’ve personally experienced feeling out of place because my background differed from that of my colleagues and didn’t fit into a traditional box.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Surfacing Culturally Relevant Solutions: BIPOC solution providers naturally integrate culturally responsive pedagogy into solutions for HSE youth. Their insights offer practitioners valuable perspectives, methods and successful models tailored to HSE students' needs, providing effective solutions for district leaders' equity challenges.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

My master’s degree in education through a social justice graduate program radically changed how I approached teaching. Ever since I’d read Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” the idea of “ banking ” education didn’t sit well with me. In my case, last semester I taught three courses on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Kathryn Kay Coquemont: I want to compare something that happened in my formal education with what I think is happening with our current traditional-age college students' education. How can educators respond to these changes? That's become harder to do. So it wasn't until I was a Ph.D.

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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. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

Should traditional institutions function more like online mega-universities? Can these innovative credentials offer an alternative to traditional degrees, diplomas and grades, to help meet student and employer demand for skills? As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist By Jeffrey R.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

They range from projects that engage the literary cultures of local communities, to ones that collaborate with public historical archives, to others that model alternative community-based pedagogies for students working with off-campus partner organizations, he says.

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