ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. Need to foster relationships between students?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Monica Burns talked with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about the advantages of integrating educational technology into adult learning.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

And in that study, he and his co-authors discovered that no matter what … there was no measure by which traditional learning, by which I mean lectures and what we call seminars, [is as effective.] Active learning wins.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Golden Apple and the Teacher Shortage in Illinois This past summer, I served as Scholar Institute Curriculum Coordinator for Golden Apple (GA) Scholars where I developed a curriculum for Reflective Seminar, one of the key summer learning experiences for the program’s roughly 1,000 scholars.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2024

Johnny Chang, a Stanford University graduate student who organized a national online seminar last summer to encourage more educators to learn about and try AI, had some questions about the approach at Ferris State. “If To him, that seemed like a chance to send in a chatbot to see how the instruction could be made clearer for students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2022

Faculty members who have been teaching seminars face-to-face for years, encouraging peer-to-peer interaction, animating engagement and debate may not find the shift online as intuitive when facing a screen. Not every instructor is adept at translating what works face to face to remote instruction.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Kanold, an award-winning educator, author and national thought leader in mathematics and professional learning communities (PLCs), has co-authored numerous best-selling books and conducted professional development seminars worldwide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Data science is changing their view of math,” said Jay Sorensen, Oxnard’s educational technology coordinator, who helped design the class. “It It changed their perspective, or their view of what math is, because they maybe didn’t enjoy math or were frustrated with math or hated math before.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Related: As the world goes virtual, big education technology players tighten their grip. “It One of her professors teaching a small seminar class recently invited everyone out for socially distanced pizza at a popular joint in Harvard Square. for her Medicine and Conflict class.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

Right now we've just been disseminating information via seminars and things like that, but we have some working groups that are international, and a group that just started that I'm very excited about ‘knowledge brokering.’ That’s looking at] what is the process of getting knowledge back and forth between these sectors?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

And just a third of all students say they have ever used each of four principal types of career services — help with resumes and interviews, networking opportunities and career fairs — according to another survey, by the education technology company Cengage.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

In contrast, Outer Coast offers liberal arts courses in person, conducted in the style of small-group seminars. “People who do online do so because it fits their busy life,” Kraft says. The curriculum emphasizes themes important locally to Sitka; for example, every student is required to study the Tlingit language.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

One of those spaces is in a college of education classroom or a seminar room where you can kind of talk about teaching. But I was surprised in the book that you noted that teachers rarely get a chance to practice teaching. Teachers sort of have two spaces that they learn. That is not the way that we improve in most circumstances.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Bridging that gap, and easing fears, will lie in getting educators acquainted with AI — a training need underscored by the fact that 96 percent of the 1,000 educators that Clever surveyed said they have not received professional development on the topic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. But, before Highlander recommends any technology, the nonprofit works extensively with the schools to get them ready. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

Through First 5, Gonzalez signed up for courses and seminars on child development that helped her understand how to best support the children in her care and she said she has grown as a child care provider as a result. With Jessica, I would ask her to color in the lines.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It sounds at first like an ambitious book club—except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free. Although some of their seminars are intended as what Hitz calls a “friendly supplement” to college curricula, others are more openly antagonistic.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

By the lunch break, a seminar-style discussion about SDG 6 — clean water and sanitation — was well underway. Coolidge students and educators participated at a DC + XQ design event. They talked about the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean. Photo courtesy of Kira Rowe.

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ED Surge

MAY 26, 2022

The seminar teaches students how to portray violence, sex and strong emotion with nuance and control, respecting the dignity and boundaries of audiences and fellow actors. Jackie bends her knees deep over her combat boots—a compressed coil of energy—then rises quickly, releasing a pillow with her hands thrust above her head.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

The conference comes at a time when there is so little direction from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos that her name rarely came up, although the travails of President Donald Trump certainly did. Related: Betsy DeVos likens education technology to letting a thousand flowers bloom. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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