Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

Some AI developers aim to make systems that can do things, like prepare food better and faster than humans, to replace the work of humans; while others want to make an AI system to work with and help humans. Here’s a list of resources to learn more about AI: Blog post: Links to 3 Webinars on AI and the Future of Learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

In recent edWeb webinars , Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project explored two important strategies for helping every student meet high expectations in math: enabling productive struggle and creating a sense of belonging. Incorporate Productive Struggle and a Sense of Belonging to Improve Math Learning. and Antonio M.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Webinar panelists Stacie Johnson , leader of professional development at Khan Academy, Pat Youngpradit , chief academic officer at Code.org and leader of TeachAI , and Brian Johnsrud , global head of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , each offered unique and valuable perspectives on the intersection of AI and creativity.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2020

Our team at Lexington County School District One in South Carolina has focused on mitigating one of these complexities by addressing the human need for connection, support, and ongoing professional learning. Livestream Webinar: Google Meets’ livestream feature allows facilitators to present content in a webinar-style session.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

AI and humans scored essays differently by race and ethnicity “Diff” is the difference between the average score given by humans and GPT-4o in this experiment. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. GPT-4o marked the essays almost a point lower than the humans did. for the humans.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

human impacts on the environment). Also, the curriculum and computational modeling environment from this project are described and demonstrated in this webinar. resurface the school grounds to reduce flooding). The problem solution must be informed by a science phenomenon (e.g.,

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But just off campus in the surrounding neighborhoods, high-speed internet is hard to come by, and it tends to be expensive for folks in a county where Census data show the median household income is $36,802, and the poverty rate is 19 percent, according to Jochai Ben-Avie, chief executive of the nonprofit Connect Humanity.

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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. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We medicated our domestic animals and produced lower cost, but lower quality, meats that have been shown to have adverse health effects on the humans that consume them. Human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it is an organic process.” webinar archive]. With pesticides and herbicides we poisoned our waters. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Julio Vazquez, director of instruction and human resources at North Salem, emphasizes the importance of this effort: “We are working to build our capacity in teaching CT to fully integrate computing in all grade levels and across multiple subject areas. Join us for a webinar on November 10, 2022 to learn more.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Another critical piece to shifting mindsets and teaching practices has less to do with practice and more to do with human connection. On more than one occasion I found myself saying, “I am here to support you instructionally, but I am also here to support you as a human being because I care about you.” Learn More.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Addressing the digital divide requires a human-centered approach In the early days of the pandemic, schools raced to provide devices and hotspots to students, responding to concerns over a widening digital divide. We must not let the flood of tech tools overshadow the necessary human element of education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In schools, creativity can be harder to imagine in core subject areas like math and easier to associate with humanities and arts. Watch the full “Improving Teacher and Student Engagement Through Creativity” webinar on-demand now. Sir Ken Robinson says, “Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Through the challenge, students will use human-centered design strategies to solve real-world problems and share their solutions broadly. We are also planning a series of webinars with experts in design and documentary film during the months of January and February to help guide teachers through this project.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. Effective edtech has never — and should never — be designed to replace human relationships with students. Some products show promise; others fall flat. What Does It Do? Does It Have a Solid Evidence Base?

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Thanks to the GA for sharing a link to a webinar which explored how to teach about the major issues facing the world through the lens of sustainability. Education, wide and fast, is necessary if humans are going to turn the situation around in the coming decade, to enable human survival into the 22nd century. Will they be ready?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

When these alerts flare, it’s a sign that computerized instruction isn’t going well and the student needs human help. I learned about this Zearn study while attending a recent webinar about how to “accelerate” learning. That presented a puzzle. This whole year I’d been hearing educators say, “Accelerate, don’t remediate.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Source: Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) slide presented at a webinar that Attendance Works held on September 28, 2022. Solving chronic absenteeism isn’t easy and involves building human relationships among teachers, parents and students. Absenteeism in Connecticut rose sharply for students of every age in 2021-22.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

Erin describes the Brooklyn Lab human capital strategy as analogous to an “educational orchestra” – educators may play from the same score, but they are play different instruments to provide students with different learning experiences. The post An Expanded Definition of Student Success appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). We are leading a free Digital Promise Adult Learning webinar on March 29 to discuss UDL and its impact on Opportunity Youth and other adult learners.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In China Grove, North Carolina, Abby Covington, a mathematics instructional coach at Millbridge Elementary School, hosted a webinar last fall for parents to explain teachers’ math expectations and tamp down pressure for perfection with homework. Related: You probably don’t have your preschooler thinking about math enough.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

Jennifer Greif Green, an associate professor in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University, said most of a child’s interactions with adults are with their parents and teachers, “so any disruption to that is really going to have an impact on that whole ecosystem and all those relationships.”. Not even close.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This webinar is designed for families seeking strategies to help kids engage and excel in math. Solving the Math Problem: Helping kids find joy and success in math The Education Reporting Collaborative will host “Solving the Math Problem: Helping kids find joy and success in math,” a live expert panel, on Tuesday, Oct.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The state education agency also established a committee to advise the state on how to bring the TEAACH Act to life in schools and produced a webinar series to support the mandate’s implementation.

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Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2018

Understanding how and why culture and communication matter in all areas of education – from science to the humanities – is a critical starting point. How can educators make sure that teaching and learning in their diverse classrooms is effective and equitable? When Students Don’t Sound the Same.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. In addition, we will host several upcoming webinars focused on teaching strategies and LGBTQ+ materials.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 16, 2024

Challenges that the RAs mentioned included time management, bureaucratic accounting and payroll procedures, and feelings of self-doubt; the lab’s culture of inclusion and independence mitigated some of these challenges.

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All Things Pedagogical

AUGUST 2, 2024

Until we are willing to spend real meaningful time, REAL MEANINGFUL TIME, not rushed meetings, not lunchtime webinars, not listicle websites, addressing the crisis of trust that is absolutely everywhere in eduspace, then it will be more of the same.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. Some of their ongoing projects include examining book collections, offering workshops on gender and racism, and creating a curriculum for teaching local Black history all year long.

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All Things Pedagogical

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Then I was going to write about something tangentially connected to that which is how post-secondary eduspace has become a literal wasteland of folk elbowing each other in the ribs for the scraps of money that remain for workshops and webinars where folk are looking for quick approaches to inclusion (your free hint, it doesn't work like that).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

In late March, as states rushed to close schools, the ASCA tried to host a pair of webinars to answer those questions. But after 13,000 members registered for the sessions – and quickly crashed the servers – the ASCA stopped offering live webinars, said Jill Cook, a former school counselor who is assistant director with the organization.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Diving into a magnified human cell. Meanwhile, Heiberger of South Dakota State heard Grubbs describe the project on a webinar. Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Tossing a Frisbee on the quad with a classmate who lives 700 miles away. These scenarios are far-fetched for most college students.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This makes for, I think, deeply enriching discussions not just among the members but also during the panels and webinars the committee regularly puts together. For example, I recently published a piece in the Journal of Human Rights interrogating current US policy on asylum for LGBTQ+ folks.

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All Things Pedagogical

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I love how in webinars or meetings when folk have their hand raised to say a thing and it has been there a while, the speaker will ask "do you have a question, or is that a legacy hand?" Nothing is real because nothing is real; all those artifacts and legacy content gone. All those relationships too? Like they never really mattered.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Vetter recently served as a panelist during a webinar on how schools can respond to the growing pushback. It was about the work of ensuring that our youth become better humans.”. This is not a new thing. It’s really a central part of education,” he said. What social and emotional learning looks like in a classroom can differ.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2025

A webinar on the Department of Transportation grant program, which is funded by the bipartisan infrastructure act , was canceled. At the start of the year, the State University of New York was awarded $15 million to buy 350 electric vehicle charging stations. We have yet to see the dollars, said its chancellor, John B.

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