Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

There’s always something new I discover to help me better live out my beliefs about teaching. This Fall, I am starting something else new, beyond my teaching and my director roles: I’m launching this advice column for EdSurge’s higher education space. (You can read more about my background and university role here.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2024

Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.” He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. And Roy Spence, chairman and co-founder of the global advertising agency GSD&M.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. This dedication exemplifies his belief in the potential of every learner.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. Last year, I had two students come back to visit me.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

This study sought to uncover how students are changing in college, including how their academic majors might have an effect on their beliefs and attitudes. Another strategy is drawing computer science back into the liberal arts , to better root technology in disciplines like history and sociology that explore social issues.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

As an architect, comedian and playwright, with a loyal following across the arts and social media, Jonny Sun knows what it takes to nurture a creative mindset. But the artist and writer isn’t so sure that he agrees with Sir Ken Robinson, the education thought leader whose video “ Do Schools Kill Creativity ?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

"[We] break down data by ELLs versus non-ELLs, special education students versus non-SPED students, and students receiving particular interventions.". But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s common to hear well educated adults declare themselves “not a math person,” sometimes proudly. This belief is wrong. Change the belief that mathematical ability is inborn, focusing on parents’ attitudes and how they are communicated to children. Cooking, arts & crafts, science experiments Use Visuospatial Tasks.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

A few months ago, Debora Spar took the helm at Harvard Business School Online, after a rocky year-long stint as the president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. We asked, “How do you take a small women’s liberal arts college in Manhattan and how should we go online?” Now it has a new leader as well.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

One might assume that, since focus and productivity were not easy by-products of this environment, anyone experiencing it would come out with a firm belief in the value of walls. We went to the Washington Memorial, the Zoo, the Capitol Building, the Museum of African History, the Arts and Industries Building and many more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One is the assumption that the pedagogy Harvard and other Ivies have always practiced—close-knit groups of students and faculty living and studying together immersively on campus—is the finest in post-secondary education , with no other approach coming close, especially not online.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Back when Miller was trying to get the project off the ground, he received some critical support—to the tune of $250,000—from the Knight Foundation, a national organization that supports journalism and the arts. Knight has obviously been familiar with us over our lifetime,” Miller tells EdSurge. The journalists were one part of that.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

Ajima launched the National Hispanic Heritage Month Maker Challenge , calling on ELL, Art, and Spanish educators and students around the country to create digitally fabricated art pieces and share them. At Dominion, “I had students take Sharpies and draw designs on paper (2D),” he says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

His guiding belief is that “modern video games have the potential to be taught as humanely and deeply as any traditional text.” According to Fallon, “Students are living, shaping and immersed within a modular, meme-soaked, multimedia world, and video games are a dominant art form within that world.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

American higher education, particularly in the liberal arts, is currently on the edge of a precipice. As Makaela Kingsley, director of the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Wesleyan University, notes, “entrepreneurship education is finally bridging the research-to-practice gap that has plagued liberal arts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I read an interesting article in EdSurge last week about how current educational technologies do little to move learners beyond rote recall of knowledge and it caught me off guard. It was not the belief that technology has yet to be harnessed to its highest potential that surprised me.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The seeds of innovation are planted at a young age, and technological advances now provide learners of all ages the opportunity to be creators, builders, designers, producers and makers. We should all have our personal mission and belief system, I know what I want to do and I’m not going to be sheepish about that. Facebook events.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“Our new partnership with FocalPointK12 is consistent with our deeply held belief that this multi-layered challenge must be met with innovative partnerships. FocalPointK12 is a metro-Atlanta based firm with extensive experience in K12 educational technology development. No one can be an island.”. Learn more at [link].

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Edsurge

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. It’s about empowering students to find what is unique about them, finding their own voice, their story,” says Ben Forta, a senior director of education initiatives at Adobe.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

We try to ask authentic questions—of technology, of industry, and of ourselves. Mendoza and Magiera echoed that belief when we spoke later. Nicol Howard, assistant professor and Master of Arts in Education Learning and Teaching Program coordinator, University of Redlands School of Education, Redlands, Calif.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

As the reality sinks in that the shift to online education will continue indefinitely—and some of it permanently—now is a particularly good time to re-examine our beliefs about effective teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

One useful way to sort through the many things that are included in SEL is to break it down into thinking skills (like the ability to understand another person’s intentions), behavioral skills (like the ability to enter an ongoing conversation or play activity), and beliefs and attitudes (like self-efficacy or growth mindsets).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district. We have the largest ROTC unit.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Sue Ann Nogle and her secondary English Language Arts team kicked the projects off in English 9 at Oakdale High School in collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs) from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). This collaboration proved critical to our success; Fulton staff shared resources, heard our ideas, and offered suggestions.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

It started last summer, when I participated in Adjacent Academies , a new experiential learning program for college students that combines technical skills training with liberal arts. The experience helped me develop new skills that have transformed how I think about my personal and professional growth.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Carol Tang, executive director at Children’s Creativity Museum: Creativity is a set of skills, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs—more akin to a mindset than a discrete skill. For art: create it, present it, try to sell it, get feedback and repeat. Chris Bennett: By trial and error—and the younger the better. Do this a lot.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years. were studying a world language or American Sign Language.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

At our monthly meetings, we’ve disagreed on everything from whether to create an art room or a computer lab, to which positions need to be created or consolidated at our school. We all carry our own beliefs and bring our own biases.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Today on the podcast, we’re learning about “dialogue,” a type of mediated discussion that may help students and educators tackle touchy topics more productively and use conflict as a learning opportunity. Our social media feeds often are reinforcing the beliefs that we already have. What do you make of that kind of tension?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Minerva is a for-profit company that has raised more than $119 million since its founding in 2012, and it provides online-education services and curriculum. Minerva’s online-education platform, called Forum, was originally designed for a class size of around 20 people, which is the typical class size at Minerva Schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

Designed to showcase education’s newest, most experimental technology and innovations, the 12-day festival is expected to draw at least 30,000 attendees to more than 350 events across the Pittsburgh region. It’s a far cry from 2012, when then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told teachers , “At the federal level, we spend $2.5

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

That is truly my passion and now my focus will be bridging across sectors to help us integrate our efforts and execute our vision across our team of 100-plus educators, researchers and technologists in service of young people. Learning from teachers about the practice and art of teaching is the area I’m most excited about.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. If so, what’s driving the trend? And what can professors and higher ed leaders do about it? And now we have more humane guidelines around that. This is why we spend time together in a room.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

Connecting Entangled Group’s activities, best summed up as consulting plus business-building and investing, is the company’s underlying belief that “society has transferred to a knowledge economy, but our education system has not caught up with that transition,” Freedman declares.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

This framework grew into the idea of a student support team, which included teachers, counselors, parents, and sometimes, special educators. Assessment data would have flagged Jason as a general education student with learning gaps who would have benefited from intervention.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Here were the tips that the mock board members, comprised of education technology investors and founders, had to offer. This alignment of goals facilitated an arts integration partnership for the upcoming school year in multiple counties in Maryland.

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