A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2016

Are we more concerned about learning or traditional grading practices? How do we know that our investments in educational technology are actually improving student learning and achievement? This question is a start, however it doesn’t really matter much what we think. Does homework improve learner outcomes?

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

Teachers must reach out and engage parents and utilize them as key players in their child’s education. Technology as a Lynchpin – In the age of education technology, teachers have to be savvy in their use but also wary in their adoption. There are also inherent issues with education traditions.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Who Is Edtech Made for?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

As a supplement to traditional discussion strategies technology can serve as a catalyst to increase engagement by getting more learners actively involved during lessons. Our results indicate that peer discussion enhances understanding, even when none of the students in a discussion group originally knows the right answer.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2019

With all the promise that educational technology holds, several pitfalls are always on the minds of educators. The top two issues that commonly come up in my talks with educators are the technology (Internet, hardware, devices, apps) not working or off-task behavior on the part of students.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2022

One question often lurks in the minds of college students: “What am I going to do after I graduate?” For those who plan on graduate school, their immediate future is pretty much set. But for most, what happens next is often in doubt.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

What can traditional colleges use from your model? Those are the programs that will lead our students to find jobs, and that's why they are coming to us. Most colleges can’t just get professors to volunteer, and I’m sure many of your professors can only do it because they have paid jobs at other colleges.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

However, the mounting pressure from ridiculous mandates as a result of the current education reform movement and massive budget cuts across the country, have made it a challenge to learn through traditional pathways. community at edWeb for free. Now more than ever leaders need to take control of their learning.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 23, 2021

We look for the traditional comforts that elicit memories of the past, and search for something new to add to our tables. It is that time of year when we look for recipes that can fill our stomachs and warm our hearts.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 22, 2020

She was a classroom teacher for over twenty years and is currently a technology integration coach in the Pleasanton Unified School District. She has been working in the field of educational technology since 1998 when she earned her Masters Degree in Ed Tech Leadership. Lisa is the epitome of a life-long learner.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

Technology in schools can be a critical tool in advancing equity. While this may look different from school system to school system, the guide includes several elements to support technology leaders in keeping equity at the center of their work.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast we’re looking at how metaphors shape technology in education. After all, an ‘online lecture’ is a metaphor, using the tradition of teaching in front of a classroom to describe teaching in an online video format. What is the most dangerous metaphor in education technology these days?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s why the development of AI-powered tools that can accommodate all learners must be a priority for policymakers, districts and the education technology industry. But doing so can be especially challenging for students with special needs working with traditional digital interfaces.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures. Kestin provocatively titled his paper about the experiment, “ AI Tutoring Outperforms Active Learning ,” but in an interview he told me that he doesn’t mean to suggest that AI should replace professors or traditional in-person classes. “I

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Education technology with built-in lesson recommendations, like WordFlight , can provide teachers with instant access to a detailed view of each student’s progress, including insights about which concepts or skills students should learn next and which of their classmates are ready to learn those concepts too.

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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. AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The lesson seemed a lot more relevant than copying a row of equations from a chalkboard, which I remember from my own more traditional (and boring) math education so many years ago. The concept caught my attention during a demonstration at HolonIQ’s ‘Back to School ’ summit in New York City earlier this month.

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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

MAY 13, 2024

Thomas Smith Boren agrees that early exposure could be a critical route for getting more people into educator preparation programs and, ultimately, classrooms. Members of Gen Z also want to be a part of work that is collaborative, which exists in pockets of the profession but is “not a strong tradition in teaching,” Smith says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Traditional math curriculum “is essentially focused on preparing students for STEM pathways in college,” Cook said.

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Picture it: a room bustling with eager five-year-olds unaccustomed to center procedures and five iPads as the hottest commodity amidst blocks, dolls and traditional learning stations. I can still vividly recall the chaotic scene of introducing iPads into Kindergarten classrooms. What’s the Kindergarten version of the Hunger Games?

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ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Yet, many of the traditional strategies employed, while absolutely essential to professional growth, can be cumbersome and disruptive for teachers, their students and even those responsible for offering support. “Now, Improved methods of new teacher support Providing adequate support for new teachers has long been a top priority for schools.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Kermit Belcher School districts like Kansas City Public Schools, for example, are providing cellular-enabled iPads as an alternative to their traditional Wi-Fi-only model. A critical part of innovation is our ability to identify and provide the tools that will allow students to create, learn and thrive anytime, anywhere.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I didn't have any background in games and learning, but I did have a background in curriculum design, school design and educational technology. What’s preventing game-based education from seeing the kind of success that game-based entertainment has enjoyed for years? So, I joined her team.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Innovation has tended to originate in the nontraditional sector, where experimentation abounds, then migrate to traditional institutions. Today, in the nontraditional sector, organizations and services have abandoned key elements of traditional higher education practice. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. McWilliams, of ETS, says she’s had a “mindset shift” in the past year about how she thinks about AI in testing.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Image credit: Allison Leedie / Khan Academy Kids How Edtech Can Help Educational technology has become an invaluable resource in addressing the diverse SEL needs of students, especially in the post-COVID era. Owen practices identifying emotions. These tools can help students better understand and express their emotions.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

However, as industry and technology have evolved rapidly, inadequate higher education funding and rising costs due to inflation have affected higher education’s responsiveness. Furthermore, such collaboration will promote instructional alignment with the knowledge, skills and abilities that industries need from their workers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Such approaches directly respond to research showing the importance of fostering a sense of belonging and math identity among students historically excluded from STEM fields, something traditional approaches often fail to do. Traditional meritocratic narratives and implicit biases about students’ abilities can stand in the way of change.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

Online has become more the norm,” said Phil Hill, a consultant and market analyst of education technology in higher education, whose newsletter alerted me to the new milestone. “It’s It didn’t track online course taking at traditional colleges and universities. Compared to before the pandemic, an additional 1.5

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

There are two main reasons for optimism in the education technology sector specifically: the sustainability and evolution of business models and an abundance of talent. The pandemic forced a reckoning for governments all over the world, who have been underspending on education for decades.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Martha Bongiorno, a school library and instructional technology lead at Fulton County Schools in Georgia, describes how creativity is sometimes the “dessert” content that is only offered to students who mastered the main course. Presenting a project without a true, correct answer can jar the more traditionally aligned student or teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2023

Replacing traditional labs, this new technology from Dreamscape Learn is used to reinforce the foundational life science concepts they are learning in the classroom. times more likely to earn an A in the class than those enrolled in the traditional model.

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