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APRIL 30, 2024

During that time, I have enjoyed working with the staff, students, parents, and community members to thoughtfully integrate technology into the classrooms. In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School. Google Arts and Culture : I have been a fan of Google Arts and Culture for years.

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MARCH 5, 2024

So it sounds like you started this work because you felt like this was the issue that needed more attention — this challenge of talking with each other about issues? I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. And so they line up on one side or the other and remain divided.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

If I'm leaning into something, I'm giving it my time and my attention and my energy. And that's where everything matters at the same time and I don't know where to put my attention. Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. And these facets of culture all live in a similar space.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The New York City-based language company, founded in 2011, offers 10 language classes along with courses in interior design, mixing cocktails and French culture. VentureBeat called it a place to “teach Brooklyn hipsters about French culture.” Scaling a culture school. Blended learning is the way to go for them, Rohrbach says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Virginia, like so many places, has culture wars dominating discourse about public education, which has taken attention away from school, educator, and student needs. It’s no surprise that education ended up being the hot-button campaign issue in Virginia’s recent governor’s race. Culture wars are getting worse.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

Rise Vision helps schools improve communication and safety, increase student involvement, celebrate student achievements, and create a positive school culture. Rise Vision provides easy to use technology, which educators are able to use to manage communications across districts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In any case, interpretations can be subjective, idiosyncratic, cultural." In other words, information is subjective. But, Evan Smith asked, "Is it the same information if interpreted differently? Wilson posed similar questions: “Does a text need a singular meaning? Or does a society need a singular meaning for its use and affirmation?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

To try to better understand this dynamic and fast-changing environment, thousands of entrepreneurs and education leaders from 34 countries gathered here this week for the Global Education Technology Summit. JMDedu's CEO and founder, Diou Zhang, kicking off the Global Education Technology Summit this week.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2023

And the sudden influx of migrants has made support for multilingual learners even more vital, says Manny Algarin, a senior educational consultant for Teaching Matters. As they consider qualitative information about students’ feelings, those at Teaching Matters also pay close attention to quantitative information.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools. We must improve the environments that educators find themselves in everyday and at a minimum decrease the stress and increase the supports available in that setting. So, what do we do? Sean Slade, 2021.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

This is an element of “whole body listening,” a practice of respectful and attentive listening all students learn at the fifth grade teacher’s school, Hazel Wolf K-8 STEM in Seattle. Schlinger believes that schools should conduct a “needs and resources inventory” before taking on the task of building an SEL-friendly culture.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Innovators tend to over-estimate how disruptive technology can be on its own, and under-estimate how resilient educational institutions are to fundamental change.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Speights has compiled samples from 400 children so far, ranging across geographic location, cultural background and socioeconomic status. Researchers also hope to help with intervention, focusing on personalized attention for each student. She eventually hopes to collect more than 2,000 speech samples from just as many children.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

The technology with which we are handling all of our communication, culture-building and collaboration might be tools we have, up until now, used solely for transactional purposes. Right now, people don’t need another request for their attention. (If As we’ve said before, affordances should be resisted before they are adopted.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Twenty-two heads snapped up to attention. Okaaaay,” I called them to attention. “I Realizing this truth has led me to rethink how I define culturally sustaining pedagogy. The ways and means of learning in the classroom should mirror the culture and community of the students in it. The timer went off. My body reminded me.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

According to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 60% of students report feeling bored during class, a clear indication that the traditional model often fails to capture attention. You need to analyze these implications critically to make informed decisions about the future of education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Now, as a teacher, Roshan leverages technology to create more equitable and empowering forums for discussion in her classroom—shifting away from a culture that praises the first person to raise their hand to one where every individual has a platform that supports them in making their ideas seen and heard. I’m paying attention.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

So, how do we deliver education both compassionately and effectively? How do we build a culture of high academic and behavioral expectations, while also taking into consideration the challenges that students bring to the table? The handout addresses the six most crucial components of a restorative culture: Self-examination.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“For the last few decades, educational reform has been coasting on these outdated ideas about human nature, about human psychology and human society,” says Hendrickson. You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. While MOOC pedagogies are continually improving, little attention is paid to the question of who or what shapes global knowledge.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They’re building lessons about computer tools directly into their courses, offering support services through learning centers and video tutorials, and generally trying to destigmatize asking for help with technology. But that type of learning doesn’t always lend itself to the technical digital skills needed in higher education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

we have been using adaptive learning since 2012, and we believe that a single constituency—painted by some as a barrier to the adoption of new technology in the classroom—is largely responsible for our success: our faculty. The sizzle of a courseware product, no matter how slick, loses its heat when faculty culture is not tuned to embrace it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute. Those who arrive with a love for learning about other people and different cultures are easy to teach, says Sgt. Achievement is not comparable.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The approach is something Cirino and other educators refer to as “ Whole Brain Teaching.” And it's becoming more popular among scientists and educators alike, who believe teachers—and therefore students—can benefit from a better understanding of how the brain works. But learning doesn’t take place in a vacuum.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. Of course, students who are not familiar with English idioms, cultural references, and vocabulary may need extra support when learning the language.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? It takes more these days to hold students’ attention and convince them to show up. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2024

But recent attention and federal dollars have also spurred attempts to increase regulations. Still, there’s a tendency for people to remove some of the nuance when talking about the uptick in homeschooling and microschools, Angela Watson, an assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, told EdSurge in May. “I’m

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

As educators, we need to support our students and ourselves to be safe. How do we create a culture of safety and embrace our common humanity? When our brains are worried, anxious and scared, students are less available to learn—their cognitive resources are diminished in part due to reduced attention and working memory capacity.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Each of our keys is based on research and is part of unlocking a new design for our K-12 education system of teaching and learning. Here’s where we start: Key #1: Leadership and school culture lay the foundation. That means school cultures must begin to focus on the “Return on Instruction” or ROI.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. What should educators learn from 2018 and where are we going next year? For 2018, consider four that caught my attention.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As a teacher standing in front of an audience who simply cannot put their phones down, the diminishing attention span of my students takes a toll. Before the notorious Zoom Year, phones were a minor issue; students were generally receptive to being redirected and there was an overall culture of understanding of how to act in a classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Instead, I ask them to try to explore cultural differences while sitting in their armchairs at home. Why did it fail?

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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. No, Edtech Minimalism doesn’t necessitate a complete abandonment of digital technology. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

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