ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

These aren’t tools created by education technology companies. Over five weeks this spring, about 300 people – teachers, school and district leaders, higher ed faculty, education consultants and AI researchers – came together to learn how to use AI and develop their own basic AI tools and resources.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I [recently] approached two of the eighth grade and the sixth grade social studies teachers with doing some professional development with me using media literacy and critical thinking across the curriculum, teaching students to decode the world. I also teach media literacy.

Library 106

Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 106

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. A lot of times, social studies gets a bad rap.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Initially, she resisted this change, feeling it was unnecessary and distracting. “I

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. This idea has been critical for me as a social studies teacher, but it goes beyond the social studies classroom.

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American History World History Social Studies History 134

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 25, 2017

Audrey Watters said: These new technologies, oriented towards consumers and consumption, privilege an ideology of individualism. In education technology, as in advertising, this is labeled “personalization.” So we see education being reframed as a technologically-enhanced series of choices – consumer choices.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. So, do you think you have a pilot approach others could learn from?

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K-12 Education Digital Resources Middle School 92

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how social studies is perceived. Achieved through direct instruction, presenting big ideas first engages students for subsequent details in many social studies classrooms. Students now question and eagerly await answers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It I go wherever teachers need me.”.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When I was studying to become a teacher, I had to choose a major and a minor, and I picked social studies as my major and computer science as my minor. With my minor being computer science, I focused a lot on how to use technology in the classroom, how to do things that we would not be able to do otherwise.

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Teaching K-12 Social Studies Museum 123

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When we study a time and place that is unlike our own, we learn to listen better, we build empathy for diverse perspectives and experiences, and we become better people. Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 131

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. I taught the same topic to high school students in my women’s studies class 20 years later.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As an example inspired by my time as a social studies teacher, instead of asking students to write a paragraph about continuity and change in a historical era, you could have them choose an era, pick a topic that shows continuity, and design an imaginary propaganda poster from that period. It removes that fear of the blank canvas.

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EdTech Advocacy Critical Thinking Social Studies 134

ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

Education 136

Education K-12 Critical Thinking Public School 136

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. “You can pursue more than one path,” I told myself. Because of them, I fought hard to merge my passions with teaching over the years.

Teaching 145

Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2023

Recognizing the need to reimagine student engagement in social studies inquiry writing, Frank McCormick , an instructional technology coordinator from Sunnyside School District in Tucson, Arizona, embarked on a transformative journey.

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Research Education Leadership Social Studies 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Lusher enrolls students in kindergarten through 12th grade across its two buildings.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives. Social studies teachers also need more coaching and feedback to become effective service-learning facilitators.

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Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 137

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

However, if you instead teach students how to use a device they already have in their pockets, you’re empowering kids to use technology anywhere. The social studies activity Space Race in McGraw Hill AR How has incorporating AR in your classroom enhanced the learning experience for your students?

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EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 130

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2022

Kris is one of so many kids I see in this place, the school where I work as an eighth-grade English language arts and social studies teacher. She seems like a good woman, a loving mother, but her taste in men hasn’t improved, judging by the story Kris is sharing about how her mom’s new boyfriend acts when he gets angry.

Library 140

Library Social Studies Economics Humanities 140

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

Illinois also established an inclusive history commission the same year TEAACH was passed that provided recommendations on social studies instruction. The state partnered with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to develop an in-depth professional development series for the TEAACH Act.

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Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They don't want other types of people to be able to have access to the curriculum, and that's done on purpose — especially in social studies.” It's why she studied history and journalism as an undergrad, and why teaching history appeals to her. How It Started Cella loves a good story.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We intentionally build content knowledge in different domains of information, such as science, social studies and art. Excite Reading explicitly looks at language comprehension skills in a comprehensive way that calls on rich, diverse and engaging text.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Teaching Research 120

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 ? Or even newer math ?) and competing ideas about why so many kids struggle with this core subject.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Opponents and Champions Cody Whitehouse was teaching social studies at Wilson College Prep high school in Phoenix when the school system rolled out a standards-based grading system last year. It recognizes the individual journey of every student. It acknowledges that we all learn differently at our own pace and in various ways.”

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Middle School High School Teaching Social Studies 143

ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Since starting my career, the dynamic of my department has changed a few times, so I’ve taught ELA by itself as well as ELA and social studies. Currently I am on a team of two [fourth grade teachers], so I teach ELA and social studies while my partner teaches math and science.

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Teaching K-12 Middle School Social Studies 128

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me. They reinforced a monolithic depiction of Black life devoid of any moments of joy, hope, or success.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Cuban is an emeritus professor of education at Stanford University. He started his career teaching high school social studies for 14 years. At one point he directed a teacher-education program that prepared returning Peace Corp volunteers to teach in inner-city schools.

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History Public School Social Studies Government 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

A 15 percent increase in students’ engagement and completion of social studies research papers inspired by student-created writing activities designed to boost students’ confidence, interest and skills in writing.

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Education Leadership Professional Development Tradition 115

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It has taken many years to get to a point where schools have access to computers and internet, and it will probably take time to ramp up to whatever new technology is required to use the metaverse.

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Education Psychology Critical Thinking Social Studies 104

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The times for me, personally, when I've been working with a student — whether it's math, reading, social studies — when that light bulb sort of goes off and the student makes that connection or can sort of understand how that math formula works? Our assignments can change on a dime. What does a really good day look like?

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Elementary School Public School Private School Social Studies 117

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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