Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 23, 2024

The professional orientation of students is exactly the direction in which Cypriots have achieved significant success. A school should be chosen based on its reputation, technological equipment, and the availability of innovative teaching methods in the program. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. The move was partly based on San Francisco public schools, which had delayed algebra until high school for all students in a high-profile experiment. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the technology itself evolving rapidly, establishing a framework for examining its implications is critical; we need to know what questions to ask, and to continue asking, even as the answers continuously change. To inform these conversations, observational research — without intervention — is the necessary foundation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

One of the wonderful Ask a Tech Teacher contributers, Jenny Wise, is a busy homeschooler who suggested I publish an article about the benefits of technology for the homeschooler. I asked Jenny if she would share how she came to homeschool her children, how technology contributes to her success, and then share resources.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Emerging technologies are revolutionizing how organizations across industries operate, and the education sector is no exception. The main three are: public, private, and hybrid clouds. It really is the future of education, enabling students, teachers, and other faculty members to achieve more.

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JULY 6, 2015

Mike Daugherty is the director of technology for a high-achieving public school district in Ohio, an occasional contributor to AATT (see his last post, 5 Things You Need to Know About 3D Printing), and the author of Modern EdTech Leadership , a discussion on how today’s administrators handle the blending of tech and ed.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

But last month, just a few months after the fanfare of the public launch event, the district abruptly shut down its Ed chatbot, after the company it contracted to build the system, AllHere Education, suddenly furloughed most of its staff citing financial difficulties. Related document: Contract between LAUSD and AllHere Education.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

While many publications wrote about the announcement at the nation's second-largest public school, details about what the $6 million system actually does have been thin. After all, the technology is prone to so-called “hallucinations,” meaning that chatbots sometimes present information that sounds correct but is made-up or wrong.

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STEM for Kids

JUNE 5, 2024

Raleigh, North Carolina USA 6/5/2024 STEM For Kids is excited to announce the release of the June STEM Calendar, a unique and educational resource designed to highlight significant historic events in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Why Incorporate Technology In Math Education With smart technology becoming an integral part of everyday life, the average student interacts with different technologies day-to-day. A math teacher has a better chance of holding students’ attention during class time if they make technology part of the lesson.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

In partnership with researchers at Vanderbilt University, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), a nonprofit that works to improve public education across 16 states in the Southeast, has been examining the next generation’s interest in the teaching profession and has published their findings in a report released in April.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

In fact, dual enrollment is “the most consistent source of enrollment growth for community colleges over the past decade,” says Nick Mathern, director of K-12 partnerships for Achieving the Dream, a nonprofit that supports a network of community colleges.

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APRIL 8, 2024

They also tend to focus heavily on academic achievement, often neglecting other important facets of education like social skills, emotional intelligence, and practical life skills. They provide a choice for parents and students dissatisfied with their assigned public schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. Screenshot of teacher and parent Melissa Yarborough speaking during the public comment portion of a board meeting in February. Photo by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. That can work out.

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ED Surge

MAY 4, 2022

But that narrative can work against efforts of educational equity, putting the onus on students to achieve, no matter what systemic obstacles are in their way. It’s part of a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” ethos embedded in American mythology.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. Whether students feel like they belong at school is really important for academic achievement or even getting them to show up, she says.

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CoderZ

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a time where technology is at the forefront of innovation and industry, it’s crucial to equip students with a solid foundation of technology-driven skills. A strong understanding of STEM disciplines, including coding, empowers students to effectively use technology throughout their education and into their future careers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. A few districts, most notably those in Washington, D.C.,

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The potential of generative AI is both promising and profound, but it raises critical questions: How can this transformative technology be harnessed not only to educate but to empower inclusively and equitably? Prioritize Equity and Diversity: Recognize the resource disparities between schools and the scarcity of technology in some regions.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2023

Christopher Bugaj Assistive Technology Specialist, Loudoun County Public Schools One way for educators to meet the needs of students is to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into their instructional practices. Provide an array of options with technology to support students in expressing what they learned,” suggests Bugaj.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2023

Seventy percent of public schools nationwide reported an increase in students who have sought mental health services since 2020 , yet only 12 percent of educators strongly agreed that their school was able to effectively meet the need. Black students were more likely than Asian, Hispanic, or white students to attempt to take their own life.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Citizen science allows the common public to participate in important scientific studies, partnering with scientists and helping them with work crucial to the enhancement of human knowledge. The general public and scientists combine their efforts to carry out large-scale activities so that the labor involved in the projects is distributed.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. A 2020 report for the U.S. But the objection is more sweeping.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

In the classroom, AR technology can enhance learning by providing students with interactive and immersive experiences, improving their understanding of complex concepts and enabling them to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. Augmented reality (AR) continues to gain importance in our everyday lives.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. A frustrating combination of factors is keeping Latino students underrepresented in science, technology and math classes.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Last month, the superintendent of New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) and the Orleans Public School Board decided to close our school at the end of the academic year. With parent confidence in public schools plummeting, schools across New Orleans and other major districts are under-enrolled.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

then how are we ever going to achieve consensus to tackle the other great challenges of our time?” It underscores everything else: immigration, climate change, public health. Part of that expansion, which will be led by Salter, includes an effort to reach not only teachers and learners but the general public as well.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. That could help build basic skills without chasing publication at too young an age.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, the Curriculum Access Team at Cincinnati Public Schools has been using Book Creator to ensure that every student has access to their learning. An open-ended task in Book Creator is a great way to achieve these objectives. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

There, students have access to “gold standard” multilingual programming, a hard-won achievement for any U.S. Rural English learners sit at the intersection of overlapping structural problems in public education. But in rural DuBois County, Indiana, administrators are prioritizing English-learner education.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I took on a role as a teacher recruiter at Achievement First, where my focus was working with principals to hire teachers. One of them — the principal at Achievement First Brooklyn high school — hired six Black teachers that year, including me. I turned to my network for referrals and it started to work.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 10, 2023

Are you curious about the Cue Robot Workshop ( 1 ) and whether ‘is Cue robot workshop open to public’? As a fellow lover of all things science and technology, I know how frustrating it can be to find reliable information about cool places to visit. KEY TAKEAWAY Is Cue robot workshop open to public?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It seemed like the beginning of a new era, when scholars and the public could make new connections and discoveries in the kind of mass digital library that had previously been the stuff of science fiction. They also brought some technology, they engineered some new ways to do book scanning faster and more effectively.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2024

That’s always been a challenge, given that when you look at these nationwide scores, kids who are English learners tend to have these gaps in achievement.” Immigrant children may have had fewer opportunities to attend school or come from countries where public education is lower quality than in the U.S., Olvera says.

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