Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. We talked about his tips for holding attention during online classes, his thoughts on banning devices in the classroom and how he got into writing about teaching in the first place.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The FBI has released a public service announcement warning educators and parents that edtech can create cybersecurity risks for students. And while she thinks it’s “great” that the FBI is bringing more attention to this issue, she wishes the public service announcement had also addressed another crucial challenge.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But we rarely see novel education technology or human capital innovations built to address this challenge. and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education ,” has incredible structures laid out for teachers looking to bring student voices to the forefront of their pedagogy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What he suggests … is that we look at how myths operate as narratives — so we can design an intellectually vivid history curriculum,” Hendrickson writes in his blog post. The idea is that material sticks best when students can see it as part of larger narratives, such as of humans trying to overcome obstacles to survive.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Research has shown that some children feel as though they are competing with devices for adults’ attention and that caregivers respond harshly to children who try to interrupt their attention to their devices. Are they connecting literature or history to the present day?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2022

While already aware of the effects smartphones had on students’ attention, I tried to keep a balanced approach to using technology in my classroom. As a history teacher, I would have my students examine an image on paper and engage in historical literacy practice to build their interpretative skills.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Guided lectures with Pear Deck or Apple’s Classroom iPad app can keep students’ attention on the topic at hand by ensuring that their screens will display exactly what the teacher needs them to see. It’s a strategy that I used as a high school history teacher years ago. Innovative teaching is not about changing everything.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Izzy Ngo and VERE360 are positioning themselves to be the go-to virtual reality resource for education. Ngo recently spoke with EdSurge about their work with VR and education. Engagement is defined here as students’ attention, retention and a deeper understanding of a concept.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

From the landmark 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report—which sounded an alarm about student achievement and national competitiveness in the Cold War era—to today’s renewed attention to civic education, new trends in American education are often rooted in deep concerns about the present and the future of the country.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2018

His reasoning: those building technologies that can potentially transform societies at scale may be the ones who most need a strong moral grounding. Take the example of self-driving cars, said Keren Wong, director of development of RoboTerra, a robotics education company.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

As Jane continues to read, digging into other novels on our award nominee list, she is putting into practice the careful attention to detail she honed while reading “Nine, Ten.” Asking questions about black history while unpacking “Walking With Miss Millie” by Tamara Bundy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For a large part of human history, that has been print. And Wolf said that this has a tremendous effect on attention that “will inevitably have a change in our ability to consolidate memory.” The effects of reading on the brain are also strongly influenced by the medium through which we read. It also changes the way we read.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2020

They wanted to integrate two branches of theater scholarship: history and performance. Clarity, landing sentences, really paying attention to the structure of a sentence, becomes important,” Nelson says. We were trying to encourage conversation and dialogue on the history and our current state of affairs,” Nelson says.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

With that in mind, I recently did some sleuthing of my own and tracked down a half dozen history and geography teachers around my age who remember time spent hunched over TVs and early PCs, discovering for the first time that the world was much bigger and more exciting than our backyards. Physical geography is important,” Keller says.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: Education technology is a classroom must-have Technology enables access to important resources Stay up to date on the latest in education technology The use of education technology in the classroom has revolutionized the way teaching and learning occur, offering new opportunities to enhance educational experiences.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class. It doesn't mean not to discipline.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In a world driven by race, class, caste and difference, we don’t do enough in schools to candidly confront those realities with an attentive awareness. But too often, we fail to center our local contexts, and to explore all of the assets that our neighborhoods and communities could bring to our educational mission.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Proponents trumpet how investing in STEM education now is investing in the country’s economic future. Whereas projects like Fluent City, Kadenze or Big History Project try to build online and offline arts education alternatives, STEM education to the outside world might seem like it has gotten more attention than the arts in recent years.

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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. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

With increased attention on technology-related subjects during the past few years, how are U.S. Pretty well, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the Nation’s Report Card. For only the second time in its 50-year history, the test has attempted to measure U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2019

Historical fiction has its place, to be sure, but there’s a lot more to diverse history than the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison. In my experience, what kids (really all kids) want to see is their own face reflected in the characters on the page in front of them.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. Work smarter, not harder.” As the U.S.

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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. We cannot move around this issue.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Maloney: Part of it is recognizing that higher ed has had a history of change throughout its entire existence. It is always evolving to the current cultural, social and political environment that it happens to exist in, and what it needs to do to educate the citizenry. We also have an opportunity not to get mired in that long history.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

My colleague and I teach the same group of 11th grade students in our Title I high school in Oakland; she teaches history, and I teach them science. 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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As the executive director of the Association of Latino Administrators & Superintendents , I am acutely aware of the pandemic’s impact on our most marginalized and students of color—and of the mammoth efforts of school leaders to support them and continue providing them with an education in what seemed to be an impossible situation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Now, I’ve got their attention, and students start thinking, ‘Wow, this science stuff is interesting. history students, and I want to insert questions for students to think about while reading. I had no idea you need to use an equation to understand how elastic the rope is so it doesn't break, and I don't plummet to the ground.’

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

We try to make assessments work for everyone, and we are using these technologies to help us fulfill that mission. Amazon Polly supports SSML, which helps you create lifelike speech that will attract and hold the attention of your audience. It’s designed to allow you to keep going with your task without having to shift your attention.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Historical trauma considers sources of trauma that often go unaddressed in trauma-informed conversations by bringing attention to the ways collective and massive traumatic events can impact multiple generations of individuals. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, who coined the terms Historical Trauma and Historical Trauma Response.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Additionally, it gained attention for its ability to provide high-quality education in regions with inadequate supplies of teachers, especially in higher-grade STEM education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C. As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. The STEM gender gap remains an area of much-needed attention that we, as educators, can actively work on improving in our daily lessons.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

eSchool News covers education technology in all its aspects–from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products. eSchool News is a marketing solutions company serving the education technology industry. Provide education and resources. Attention: Nancy David.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

eSchool News covers education technology in all its aspects–from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products. eSchool News is a marketing solutions company serving the education technology industry. Provide education and resources. Attention: Nancy David.

Confidentiality 100

Confidentiality History Evaluation Internet 100

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

eSchool News covers education technology in all its aspects–from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products. eSchool News is a marketing solutions company serving the education technology industry. Provide education and resources. Attention: Nancy David.

Confidentiality 100

Confidentiality History Evaluation Internet 100

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

eSchool News covers education technology in all its aspects–from legislation and litigation, to case studies, to purchasing practices and new products. eSchool News is a marketing solutions company serving the education technology industry. Provide education and resources. Attention: Nancy David.

Confidentiality 100

Confidentiality History Evaluation Internet 100