EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Coding has become an essential skill in the modern K–12 classroom. While more schools are making computer science mandatory and creating more opportunities for students to learn to code, those who are blind or have low vision are often left out of this largely visual experience. Lacking this 21st-century skill could be an obstacle for those students when entering the workforce, an already difficult endeavor: According to Cornell University, nearly half of working-age adults with visual disabilit

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Role of Phosphorus Properties in Sustainable Technology for Classrooms When you think about how to educate the next generation, what do you hope to see? A school classroom of the future, one equipped with technology for students to learn and grow, is also designed to be sustainable. Some wouldn’t regard it as just a vision because phosphorus properties are special ingredients in the development of sustainable technology for education.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The post Fostering Student Innovation in the Ciena Solutions Challenge appeared first on Digital Promise.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Key points: Inclusion can drive more women to work in AI and tech fields Report finds persistent STEM career exposure gaps for women 3 free STEAM education resources to nurture student curiosity For more news on STEM equity, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the technology education sphere. As AI develops and integrates further into societal applications like careers, it’s essential to recognize the importance of gender equity.

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Generative AI holds tremendous promise for all stakeholders in higher education. But guardrails are needed. Strong governance that empower instructors are at the core of a responsible approach to using generative AI in academia.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Leaders at California’s Mt. Diablo Unified School District are focused on expanding digital equity so that all students are prepared for college and career. That preparation starts early in their 21st-century classrooms, where students and teachers get access to standardized technologies. The district recently modernized its ed tech with updated Chromebooks, teacher laptops and Promethean ActivPanel displays.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

No matter what education circle you are in, AI is likely a topic of conversation. Some see it as the holy grail of education, and this has manifested in countless books and presentations, especially at technology conferences. Even events that are not focused on digital have sessions dedicated to the topic. On the other hand, there are an equal number of skeptics and opponents of using AI in schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Using digital books Category: Problem-solving As you discuss reading and the technology tools that inspire students in this activity, here’s a poster with nine reasons why students w

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Robotics: It’s one of the many technologies that come to mind when people talk about science, technology, engineering and math projects. Yet while robots are the fun, shiny face of these STEM lessons, the real learning comes in the form of the technology that enables the robots to function. One piece of this puzzle is coding. Students who are learning robotics are learning how to code so they can program the robots to complete tasks or otherwise operate as they envision.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark Ever since human beings started passing down knowledge, we have had to make assumptions about how learning happens and how to teach so that learning occurs. And it must have been obvious from early in our species’ development that people learn differently and have different skills. When the knowledge and skills we needed to pass down were truly a matter of survival on a daily basis, our ancestors must have known that it doesn’t matter how much teaching is going on i

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Jeremy Price was curious to see whether new AI chatbots including ChatGPT are biased around issues of race and class. So he devised an unusual experiment to find out. Price, who is an associate professor of technology, innovation, and pedagogy in urban education at Indiana University, went to three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard (now called Gemini) — and asked them to tell him a story about two people meeting and learning from each other, complete with details like the names of

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Sustainably cooling a K–12 data center is fraught with challenges. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, data centers alone can use up to 50 times the energy of a similarly sized commercial office building. Unlike hyperscale cloud operators that can finance efficient data centers, many school districts operate with limited budgets. K–12 IT shops can start by doing more with less — ideally, less heat.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Does AI actually help students learn? A recent experiment in a high school provides a cautionary tale. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access to ChatGPT. Those with ChatGPT solved 48 percent more of the practice problems correctly, but they ultimately scored 17 percent worse on a test of the topic that the students were

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Chaula Butterworth was a stay-at-home mom before the pandemic, raising her three school-aged kids. But as her youngest child’s school district sought to return to in-person learning in 2021, Butterworth felt something of a call to service. Many teachers and school staff were reluctant to return to crowded classrooms and hallways as the virus continued to spread.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A friend of mine (who I’ll leave anonymous, at her request) struggled with the challenges of teaching and personal life. Teaching was her passion, but its demands soon overshadowed her personal needs. Last year, she was assigned a particularly large class whose requirements consumed too many evenings and weekends, leaving insufficient time for her kids and husband.

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The Jose Vilson

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A few weeks ago, after skimming through the formatting of my dissertation one last time, I said a little prayer. The last call was, “God, I leave it in your hands now.” Before I said those words, I had done everything possible to ensure my success. I selected committee members who would push me to think deeply about my work without the dismissal of my personhood.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This is the middle section of my September 19, 2024 presentation, Why Open Education Will Become Generative AI Education. I’m pre-posting some of the presentation content due to the very active conversation the announcement of the presentation has created. Next week I hope to post the first section of the presentation, which outlines the reasons why people who care deeply about affordability, access, and improving outcomes should consider shifting their focus away from OER (as we have unde

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I can’t pinpoint exactly when I developed anxiety, but that’s because I didn’t know about it. When I was growing up, I didn’t hear about the topic of mental health unless it was the butt of a joke. However, I do remember when I first learned that the tightening in my chest, the burning sensation in my hands and the sleepless nights were related to anxiety.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Monday, September 2nd, is America’s Labor Day. It was originally organized to celebrate labor association strengths and contributions to the United States economy. Now, it has become a day of rest, the traditional end of the summer, and a last chance to make trips or hold outdoor events. Here are some wonderful websites that will generate organic conversations about The Day: Child Labor Cybraryman’s Labor Day page- -comprehensive as is his way History of Labor Day –Movie Labor Day activiti

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The first two times I tried college, I didn’t finish. There was never enough time to care for my young son, work a full-time job and do my schoolwork. And there was never enough money to pay rent, tuition and child care. On my third try, everything clicked. This time I was more motivated than ever before — to prove that I could do it, to prove the doubters wrong.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

EdTech leader Discovery Education is offering educators new insights into how to bring curiosity to the forefront in districts, schools, and classrooms around the world. Through a new free resource called A Practical Guide for Cultivating Student Curiosity, all educators can unleash the power of curiosity in the classroom to deepen student engagement, heighten motivation, and build persistence.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Crisis. Fatalistic. Overwhelming. That’s how some experts say the current national conversation about youth mental health is framed — and counter to its goal, that lens is hurting the ability to find solutions that help adolescents better weather mental health struggles. They spoke during a media briefing on youth mental health organized by the FrameWorks Institute, a nonprofit that studies how people think about social issues.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Key points: We should do more to make teachers’ jobs easier–AI can help 5 ways to restore your passion for teaching School leaders of color face high burnout–here’s what they need to thrive For more news on teacher burnout, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub As we turn the corner into a new school year, teachers need a break more than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. The air conditioning wasn’t working properly, but the heat didn’t seem to bother the teachers, who were absorbed in a math lesson. Danielle Robinson and Alicia Socha, two teachers in the district, led the lesson.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

How Certain Words Change How Children Feel by Terry Heick While I often talk about ‘scale’ as one of the primary challenges in education –and have also wondered about curriculum , too–a more subversive concept constantly at play throughout education is tone. As an ‘English’ teacher, I always explained tone to students as a kind of ‘attitude’ that can be expressed in a variety of implicit and explicit ways–from words (said and unsaid) and body

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Drone Soccer has taken off across the globe and helps students develop career-ready STEM skills.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Key points: Students build conceptual understanding from experiential learning and retain information better 5 ways to use technology for classroom creativity 5 strategies to navigate science literacy in the digital age For more news on innovative learning, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub The pace of technological innovation is increasing exponentially.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

At the end of July, McDowell Technical Community College in Marion, North Carolina, hosted a party for something people don’t typically throw parties for: Applying for financial aid. The campus is often quiet after 5pm, but on this day, it was transformed into a loud and lively space for Latino families from the western part of the state. While they waited for their turn in an upstairs computer lab where bilingual education advocates could help them fill out their FAFSA, they ate from a hodgepod

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. In its name, the purpose of a ‘report card’ is plain enough: to report on progress. But it’s not that simple.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Peekapak is a dedicated SEL toolkit that's a superb aid for teachers of children varying across the school age range.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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