Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. We’re focusing on a pretty unusual story about Bill Demirkapi, who had a pretty odd hobby while he was in high school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

In recent weeks, viral videos have portrayed a teacher wrestling a student to the ground at McClatchy High School in Sacramento, a student tossing Florin High School’s principal to the cafeteria floor and a school police officer throwing a student out of her chair in South Carolina. At McClatchy High School on Oct.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

Unlike Innocent, Muan moves slowly and does not like attention. Like Innocent she is 20 years old, but the eldest of four children, with two of her siblings also attending our school. Called Accelerate to Graduate (A2G) this program is being piloted at Iroquois High School in Louisville, Ky, where I teach.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

So now students in elementary and middle schools have to keep devices off and put away during the school day, though high school students can use their smartphones or watches between classes and at lunch. And she says there are fewer fights at the school, too. In general, students are ready to learn,” she says. “In

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It In addition to serving as the high school’s lead teacher and IB coordinator, he teaches math.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2024

One of the programs is the Morgan Success Scholarship at Lehigh Carbon Community College, which is available to students at Tamaqua Area High School who enroll right after completing their high school degree. That can be a lot to ask a 17- or 18-year-old finishing high school to navigate. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

The author’s work did not discount the fact that there are inspirational teachers whose lectures are so compelling they can hold student attention for hours.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. The effect is further exacerbated in high school, where in many states, students encounter U.S. But they weren’t reading from a textbook. They were roleplaying.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Can I have your attention? The challenge of getting and keeping the attention of students in schools and colleges was the topic of several of our most popular episodes of the EdSurge Podcast over the past year. 3) Theres growing skepticism of higher education, complete with popular memes on social media that college is a scam.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2021

When Carlo Diy throws out a question to his high school entrepreneurship and marketing students, he steels himself for an uncomfortable few moments ahead. It's just crickets,” says Diy, a second-year teacher at Durham Public Schools in North Carolina. To spark engagement, Diy has had to get creative. So he put it to the test.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

This flavor of internet short-form content absurd, easily produced, no plot appears to be having an effect on its viewers that is being felt by schools and youth mental health experts. Educators have talked for years about students shortening attention spans and how kids struggle to follow the most basic of instructions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Twenty years ago, I was a freshman in high school. I was a well-behaved student and earned As and Bs, so most of the adults in the building didn’t pay much attention to me. I was a well-behaved student and earned As and Bs, so most of the adults in the building didn’t pay much attention to me.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This situation continues even as schools and districts across the U.S. recognize the need for data literacy; that some state frameworks call for attention to data literacy (such as the 2021 California Mathematics Framework ); and teachers across subject areas develop their own data lessons and courses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

A recent visit to my old high school library left me disappointed. But the technology itself was not my concern. On the trip back to my former high school, much of what I witnessed—technology and all—still focused on the bottom level of the pyramid: memorization.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s been the experience of Bill Bass, a former English teacher who now serves as an innovation coordinator at a school district in St. It’s his job to make sure edtech is successfully integrated into schools there. “If If a teacher brings a tool to [a district], they should pay attention. Louis, Missouri.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

She later founded a college-prep charter high school in St. Louis, and was president of an educational foundation working for disengaged nontraditional students. It’s even harder to focus and pay attention because we have information coming at us and the demands are everywhere.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

Technological infrastructure should be scaled and secured, as necessary, and communication technologies should be used to their full advantage “to pay close attention to the development of each child and ensure that appropriate grade-level growth is happening while learning takes place at a distance.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a similar vein, educators say they want students to pay attention in class, something they can’t do if they’re fixated on Instagram, Fortnite or the app du jour. Some of them have no idea how many times they check their phones,” says Yvonne Shiu, the principal of San Mateo High School in California.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

As a high school student in South Los Angeles wrote: I set up my learning space in the kitchen or my room. A high school student in Central California expressed missing the ability to see teachers in-person as a primary concern: This week was very chaotic for me and very stressful. Privacy doesn't exist in this house.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Educator Stacey Roshan believes that when schools prioritize students who are most vocal and quickest to raise their hand, the perspectives of too many are lost. When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class. Let’s take a trip back to high school. I’m paying attention.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

During a lesson, it was easy to see students’ reactions—if they were paying attention, confused, or engaged—and I could adjust on the spot as needed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned. When 9/11 happened, my high school English teacher stopped our normal routine, rolled in a TV set, and turned it on.

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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. He found that only the school serving elite students embraced the more creative and personally empowering use of technology. and globally.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

But front, center and occupying the most space in the demo hall were a group of high-school students, offering samples of tomato juice. Proceeds from the sale of tomato juice goes towards supporting education-related charities. What captured our attention, though, was an added aesthetic twist on the headsets: cat ears.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2011, Cat Campos was a senior at Immaculata-La Salle High School , struggling to see how the iPod touch devices they were testing in her AP Literature class could support learning. That team keeps the school tech running. Case Study) Immaculata-La Salle High School: Tech team leverages iPads at this School with MDM.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

According to studies from the American School Counseling Association (ASCA), when a school counselor has the bandwidth and resources to provide individualized attention to each student, the student is more likely to be accepted to more colleges and perform better on their standardized tests.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

“This research shows this technology has a lot of power and influence” over students’ college decisions, Mulhern tells EdSurge. According to company officials, Naviance is used by about 40 percent of high schools in the U.S. A sample of a high school's scattergram for one college.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

In senior year of high school, my football team once came back from being down 0-34 at halftime to win the Central Valley championship, 35-34, in overtime. These days, I’m a community health educator. We pay close attention to the quality of our form. It was the craziest thing we had ever done.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

If I'm reading a story to them, I also teach about parts of a book by way of creating citations, because when they go to high school and college, they're going to have to create a research paper that requires citations. That really warmed my heart that youre paying attention to everything that I'm bringing. We do a read-aloud.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Take, for example, the distance learning plan created by Chaffey Joint Union High School District in California, which says that schoolwork completed by students through the end of the year can only preserve and improve grades, but not lower them. Many teachers watched their students brush off assignments and disappear from class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Can our students, teachers and caregivers—especially those experiencing it for the first time—navigate web browsers and technology? Attention feels more frayed and fragile during live video lessons for all of us. That’s especially true for our learners who experience challenges to sustained attention when in the physical classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Not every student and teacher will get along, and not every middle or high school teacher will be able to befriend each of their students. Yet schools, which exist to educate and take care of kids, are especially fertile ground for this type of everything-is-fine thinking. In other words, optimism. It can be healthy too.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Many scientists believe that the focus on social media has led us to not pay attention to these other critical factors that may be driving these kinds of things,” Fuligni says. Before that change, the district tried its hand at convincing high schoolers to go to bed earlier by touting “the benefits of sleep.” The campaign didn’t land.

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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. We talk with one of those experts, plus others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology. Thanks for listening! What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school.

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