ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

Technology in todays classrooms is advancing rapidly, reshaping the way students learn and teachers teach, especially with advancements in AI. Educators play a vital role in shaping meaningful and impactful learning opportunities for students through emerging technologies like AI.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

Colleges need to ensure their early courses are teaching students foundational math skills, Venit says. They should also teach students skills that will be helpful in their career paths, he adds. Its kind of lurking below the surface and its going to eat us at the end of the decade, he says.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Looking to boost student engagement and collaboration in your classroom? The three-step interview learning strategy is an effective approach that fosters active participation, improves communication, and helps students develop critical life skills like active listening and teamwork. What Is the Three-Step Interview?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. It encouraged teachers to design learning experiences that engaged students in meaningful mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

Here are twelve recommended by the Ask a Tech Teacher team: 12 Innovative Digital Tools to Engage High School Students In the ever-evolving landscape of education, keeping students engaged can be a challenge. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I refer to those epiphanies, when the metaphorical light bulb above a student’s head switches on, as “luminations.” Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

However, attempting to conduct such "high-level communication" with flat-dimensional video alone or showing pre-made lesson slides through screen sharing can deter student engagement and make it challenging to achieve lesson goals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

From creating realistic images and art to producing music and writing, generative AI's potential to help students learn and demonstrate their creative thinking skills in fundamentally new ways is truly awe-inspiring. And if students learn them with trusted, industry-standard tools, they will be readily equipped for the future.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 3, 2025

There could be several reasons for thisyou might be teaching a new grade level, your students may not be as receptive, or the strategies just dont feel as relevant anymore. Here are a few tried-and-true active learning strategies to keep students engaged and learning.

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Co-teaching, where two educators work together to deliver instruction to a group of students is not just a growing trend in education, but an innovative approach that enhances and strengthens learning experiences for teachers , students, and the school. Benefits for Teachers Co-teaching benefits students and teachers.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

Esports offers incredible benefits for student engagement, community and skill building, and pathways to higher education and job opportunities. In the United States, there are over 15,000 esports teams in K-12 schools, and many esports teams and programs emphasize access to students with disabilities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2015

Even if the sub is knowledgeable in the subject matter, s/he doesn’t have intimate knowledge of what this particular student group knows about software, websites, problem solving, and more, which can be scaffolded for the current lesson. Working in teams of two, students fill out a blank template of key placement.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Players must program a backend strategy and use their coding and problem-solving skills to outsmart competitors. CodeCombat AI League trailer (credit: CodeCombat) A Foundation of Game-Based Learning Founded in 2013, CodeCombat was born from a simple idea: Make learning to code engaging and accessible to all.

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STEM Sport

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Creating curriculum maps focused around the distinct needs of your children and students is key to their current and future success. Tailoring curricula and the teaching approach is especially important when choosing curricula for special education students who have unique needs.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2023

Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. This type of collective problem-solving is what Nagamuralee says works in regular classes too. Corridors or projects are designed for small groups of students and the space can be controlled by the teacher.

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 7, 2025

But what if schools could take that passion and channel it into something moresomething that enhances engagement, boosts academic performance, and builds essential skills for the future? One of the most compelling reasons for integrating esports and game design into education is their effect on student engagement.

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PCS Edventures

APRIL 8, 2025

Juggling diverse learning styles, limited resources and student engagement is a challenge. Real-World Problem-Solving Want to make learning stick? Creating sustainable solutions for real-world problems. This hands-on, problem-solving approach: Deepens understanding. Ready to make this a reality?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Defining the Integration of Artificial Intelligence Integrating AI refers to the incorporation of machine-driven intelligence into various applications and processes, enabling tasks that mimic human cognitive functions like learning from data, problem-solving and recognizing patterns. Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. But other educators have a different view.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. They're also coding, measuring and problem-solving. And right now, some district leaders and researchers say that's precisely what both students and teachers need. Encourage fun!!!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2016

An intuitive website and/or app 1) has an easy-to-understand start-up screen that clearly identifies how to use the tool, 2) the process for using the tool is similar to others the students is familiar with, and 3) the student can independently launch and operate the web tool or app without requiring an adult. is it user-friendly ?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

"There are so many amazing ways to use games, game-like experiences and the design process to engage students, not just in academic things, but in things that have to do with conflict or processing feelings." It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It's not unlike the way that we teach game design to kids, at the beginning: “How could you mod this game to be able to teach something?” One of the core tenets of games is this idea of collaboration and communication, problem-solving in teams. But this isn’t how the game developer world goes about doing things.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The class began discussing, debating and problem-solving a wide array of challenges: managing supplies, trading goods, hunting for food, fixing broken wagon wheels and forging rivers—all while avoiding death from dysentery, exhaustion or snakebites. In that moment, a previously tedious history unit came to life.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

While it’s likely that homework completion signals student engagement, which in turn leads to academic achievement, there’s little evidence to suggest that homework itself improves engagement in learning. They can stop teaching to the test and educate parents on why they are doing so.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2019

They are introduced via themes to spark interest and keep students engaged. which by the way, is fee-based), students start with a placement test to determine their comprehension level and be sure they are challenged by assignments without being frustrated. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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CoderZ

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Implementing a robust and interconnected curriculum ensures equity, consistency, and continuity across the district as students grow and develop their computer science competencies. These learning opportunities make computer science approachable and fun, inspiring curiosity and encouraging student engagement.

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Carly and Adam

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Each card presents a specific problem or activity that encourages students to think critically, experiment, and apply the engineering design process to find creative solutions. These task cards often include open-ended questions, building challenges, or problem-solving scenarios that promote inquiry-based learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2024

Thus, teachers should emphasise algebra fluency, rather than dwelling on problem-solving. Addressing procedural problems, particularly those that include sequences and functions – and all graphing questions, will help students perform better in this topic. Students should apply compound measures to solve these questions.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

Students may begrudge the grind of notetaking, problem-solving and producing content because they would rather be elsewhere. They know they need and should learn this information but rarely do our students think about what they deserve when it comes to their education.

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STEM Sport

AUGUST 2, 2023

Project-based learning is a teaching method that utilizes hands-on learning experiences to help students further develop their skills in various subjects. Regardless of grade level, it can be difficult to keep students engaged throughout project-based lessons.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 24, 2023

Have you ever wondered how to engage students in problem solving activities that are both fun and effective? In this article, I will share a variety of classroom activities designed to help students explore solutions to problems. KEY TAKEAWAY What are problem solving classroom activities?

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STEM Education Works

JUNE 3, 2024

Test : Conduct tests to evaluate the prototype’s performance Improve : Refine and enhance the solution Overview of the 5E Instructional Model Definition: The 5E Model is an instructional design model used in education, particularly in science teaching, to promote active learning and student engagement.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We all know that games and fun learning activities are more conducive to meaningful learning experiences and a higher level of students engagement and participation. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class.

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 6, 2025

Schools and universities are using VR to bridge the gap between theory and practice , allowing students to explore science, history, and technology in fully immersive environments. From virtual field trips to teaching students how to design their own VR applications , the role of virtual reality in education continues to grow.

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

When done properly, STEM lessons help students promote inquiry-based learning, which leads to them building life skills, such as strong critical thinking and problem solving skills. One way to successfully implement inquiry-based teaching into the STEM classroom is by leveraging the Engineering Design Process (EDP).

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