ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Using Technology to Solve Human Problems Shortly after implementing the packaged SEL curriculum, students became noticeably wary about entering these conversations. The lessons and worksheets that were supposed to relieve their stress ended up exacerbating the insecurities students’ were experiencing.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 17, 2025

I believe the last few monthly professional development offerings at my school have had a portion of time dedicated to different AI tools available to teachers to assist with writing lesson plans or developing questions from text or organizing and presenting content. The content students learn in school is mostly explicit.

Humanities 93

Humanities Lesson Plan Professional Development Research 93

ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. Typically, humans have an inclination toward safety and the predictability of routine, avoiding the uncertainty that comes with new terrain.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No No matter what, the thoughts need to start with the human user and end with the human user,” she stresses. After all, the goal of any writing instruction, she notes, is to help “two human beings communicate with each other.”

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Teaching Education K-12 Lesson Plan 145

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Similarly, if students in the physical classroom spend most of their day listening to a teacher present information or working silently at their desks, they do not enjoy the human interaction that makes in-person learning so appealing. . When I lesson plan with teachers, we strive for a balance between the online and offline stations.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. Check out last week’s post here.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

My days fly by in a blur of driving the kids to school, working, making dinner, cleaning up, packing lunches, lesson planning, and grading. Sometimes it’s nice to just share our experiences as human beings attempting to make our way in the world. In the day to day mania of my life, there is very little time for me.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Humanities Education 166

Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

The goal of AI is to create machines that can mimic human capabilities. We believe that AI systems can enable teachers to do the things that humans do best while supporting them by doing things that machines can accomplish. What is AI and What Can it Do for Teachers? Educators Must Be Involved in the Design of AI Systems.

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Classroom Management Tutoring Lesson Plan Humanities 159

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Benefits of Primary Sources: Humanizing History With primary sources, students as young as kindergarten age can grasp difficult concepts and glean meaning from past events. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primary source.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

Human-recorded audio has synchronized highlighting so that the students can see reading modeled and bring general and domain-specific vocabulary into their oral vocabulary. Scaffolding is a research-proven method of leading students along this path. 1 As made clear by Fisher, et al. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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Education Tutoring Humanities K-12 145

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. It’s about more than tests and grades.

Teaching 145

Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They demonstrate the efficiency and simplicity with which these tools generate lists of questions, create quick assessments, and plan lessons or entire units. I can appreciate the excitement since lesson planning is a time-consuming endeavor. As great as AI tools are, they don’t know our students the way we do.

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EdTech Lesson Plan Humanities Teaching 155

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Spierenburg, whose company helped support the development of the app explains that every activity is directly aligned with a standard and has an accompanying lesson plan in Verizon Innovative Learning HQ , a free online education portal empowering educators to help bring new ways of learning and next-gen tech into the learning experience.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Practices combine the foundations with additional skills and knowledge to solve an applied problem, whether that end result is a computer program, a better comprehension of a biological ecosystem, or an increased appreciation of how human migration patterns relate to geographical landscapes.

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Learning Science Humanities 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

” The McKinsey authors suggest that existing technology can be used to help teachers in several areas: planning lessons, assessing students, grading homework, giving feedback and administrative paperwork. Related: Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Tutoring Educational Technology 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Climate change has been driven by human behavior. As part of our work for Rutgers University’s Department of Family & Community Health Sciences and the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative, we’ve been piloting lesson plans that present information on both food waste and plant-based eating. They can’t even vote.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Humanities Education 123

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers by Stephen Noonoo The popular lesson planning site Teachers Pay Teachers has long struggled with allegations of plagiarism, racist lesson plans and poor content quality—drawing the ire of teachers and social media users.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While those automated tactical strategies work well at the district enterprise level, digital safety and security really starts with the humans. Teachers can find more information and lesson plans for digital safety and digital citizenship at Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship.

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Digital Resources Lesson Plan Humanities Teaching 127

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction. Advisory Council, whose goal is to provide the government with independent advice on AI technology and how it can impact policy, build public trust and foster the development of unbiased AI that keeps human beings at the center of the experience.

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K-12 EdTech Government Human Rights 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: “People think it’s about boxes and wires and that’s just the beginning,” said Beth Holland, digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry association for tech directors across the country. , PearDeck, Google and GoGuardian are among them. Weekly Update.

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K-12 Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Education Policy 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. The 20-lesson unit culminated in a presentation before a Pontiac City Council member named Randy Carter, who listened to the kids make their case at a podium with a microphone and PowerPoint slides.

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Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. But I've also been fascinated by the potential of human intelligence.

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Tutoring Humanities K-12 EdTech 130

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Tutoring High School 98

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution commented that the divide we will see is where some kids get taught just by AI, and other kids get taught by AI plus a human, which is obviously way better. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection. We have a responsibility to really explore that to its fullest potential.

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Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

READ THE SERIES Price teaches with human-capable technologies in mind, making sure to give students the skills in class by hand. With the support of AI, human software engineers get to focus on the most interesting part of computer science: answering big software design questions,” Balazinska said. “AI 11, 2023, in Seattle.

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Tutoring Humanities Lesson Plan Teaching 137

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The increase in umpire errors buttresses the idea that humans have only so much attention span that can be depleted after a period of intense effort or concentration. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans.

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Lesson Plan Humanities Economics Research 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

Angel Rivera and Sara Caro, humanities teachers at the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science in the Bronx, meet to plan a lesson on World War II history lesson together. Instead, every day, new teachers work with veteran teachers and administrators to write all of their lesson plans together.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Humanities Professional Development 87

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Early in fall 2020, Hidalgo and her husband scoured the internet for curriculum and lesson plans that they could use at home to teach their kids. All four Early in fall 2020, Hidalgo and her husband scoured the internet for curriculum and lesson plans that they could use at home to teach their kids.

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Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 142

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I'm a human being. She’s always thinking through lesson plans and seating charts, even at the grocery store and in the shower. I'm a human being that sometimes needs to eat food and go to the bathroom when I want to,” she says. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Photo by Rebecca Koenig.

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Museum Education Historic Sites History 140

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Such advances enable differentiated lesson plans for a diverse set of learners. The spread of AI technology can also tempt districts to replace human teachers with software, as is already happening in such places as the Mississippi Delta. Faced with a teaching shortage, districts there have turned to online platforms.

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Lesson Plan Humanities Cultures High School 110

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

When planning for this course, I met with a group of 12 peers from six different high schools. Of these students, only one had an Asian American high school social studies or humanities teacher. Asian American students need support in other ways, too.

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High School American History Social Studies Leadership 123

ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

Meanwhile, educators also have scores of new edtech products to review that promise to save them time on lesson planning and administrative tasks thanks to AI. Bowen hopes that colleges can find a way to focus on teaching students the skills that make us most human, as AI takes over routine tasks in many white-collar industries.

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Education EdTech Teaching Lesson Plan 143

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We’ve loaded it with free lesson plans and resources for teachers, plus a learn tab with videos and guided activities for students to practice on their own. Understanding context is a crucial human skill that is best taught through storytelling and real-world applications. Take Adobe Express for Education , for example.

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Advocacy Project-Based Learning Tradition Economics 123

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

But he maintains that teachers of all subject areas can build more student agency into their lesson plans. Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are tremendous opportunities,” Isaacs said. “It Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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Tradition Lesson Plan Middle School Humanities 109

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Getting to know my students beyond their academic capabilities and seeing them develop into well-rounded humans is a gift. This meant that I needed to shift my lesson-planning time, but it really paid off. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a teacher is building relationships.

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Teaching Junior High Humanities Lesson Plan 128

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Related: The climate change lesson plans teachers need and don’t have Even at the college level, it’s rare for students to study climate activism in particular, or political activism more generally. She became passionate about climate justice and the human impact on the environment, and ended up majoring in urban forestry.

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Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 139