eSchool News

JULY 16, 2020

Levin, a former director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association who now heads the consulting firm EdTech Strategies , is more concerned about what happens when millions of devices that have been removed from the protection of school district firewalls for five months are reconnected to district networks in August.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Charter schools educate six percent of America’s children, but get an outsized amount of attention , pro and con. Partly because charter schools educate an outsized, and concentrated, percentage of Black and Latinx students, and groups of Black and Latinx kids always draw a spotlight. In Washington, D.C.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re unsure where to begin, ask the chatbot for help brainstorming lesson ideas and then ask follow-up questions until you get something you can use. Educators are the experts in teaching and learning, and they need to be at the center of conversations about how artificial intelligence will be used in education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Teachers can’t slow down the lesson plans for the entire class to accommodate a few struggling students, and can’t provide individualized attention to all the students who need it to stay on track. Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2024

For example, consider these two math questions and ask yourself: What knowledge is needed to solve each problem? Source: Nicola Hodkowski We tend to pay attention to the groups of students who get the correct answers, regardless of their reasoning. Your departure is 6:47 p.m. and the flight time is an hour and 25 minutes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

So what are educators to do? That question is the topic of a new book out this month by James Lang, called “ Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. 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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

A lot of injustices are recorded,” he said, “and until they get attention nothing is done about them.”. On the other hand, Faris noted, “there is a cycle of shaming and public outrage and outsized attention. That disciplinary move drew questions from the girl’s parents and free speech experts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. The face is a massive draw—it’s a magnet for attention,” Stull says. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? What innovations might redefine the learning environment?

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2022

Shea Smith starts the middle-school digital media class he teaches with a ritual: He asks his students to open up their Chromebooks and answer a simple question, “How are you feeling today?” A second fill-in-the-blank question invites students to add if there is anything else they’d like to tell the teacher, though that’s optional.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

I don't feel like I can give them what I could give them in the classroom as far as individual attention and differentiated lessons. According to one 2018 paper , led by Chin-Hsi Lin at the University of Hong Kong, “there is no one-size-fíts-all solution to the ideal class size question.” Claffey’s is hardly an isolated case.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Mike Caulfield: One of the primary things you're doing when you're reading on the internet is you're trying to decide if something's worth your attention or not. In traditional models we've often taught students that the way you solve any problem is by giving it deep critical attention. Information is abundant.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Children who have only known a world in which AI-based systems are widespread often turn to search engines to find answers to questions before going to their own parents and teachers. Also, asking a search engine avoids awkward or difficult conversations behind more serious questions.

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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. Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It actually was such a frequent comment that I started asking the question if teachers didn’t bring it up,” Picou says. “We We assume that students are digitally fluent because there’s way more technology around us than ever before. A key question to ask, Picou says, is How does the tool respond to students? “If

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it. Now, he was rewarding himself by attentively drawing cartoon cityscapes all over his paper. Trapped between the schedule of the day and his own brain, he was going to fail.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Talbert recently wrote about the experience on his blog , asking the question: “is traditional higher education in trouble from online course providers?” The question that you asked when you wrote this up for your blog is, 'Is traditional higher ed in trouble from online course providers.?' The answer is not definitive.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

While aesthetically pleasing, these may be a distraction to some students , such as those with attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. . This doesn’t mean classroom walls have to be bare, of course, but educators should be mindful of the overall effect. . by Jennifer Brown.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2021

One area he’s exploring involves trying to better understand what teaching practices best hold students’ attention. Ido Davidesco, an assistant professor of learning sciences at the University of Connecticut, says such research will yield insights that can help teachers do their jobs better.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Did you have to raise your hand to answer questions? The teacher pauses to ask a question and I feel butterflies in my stomach immediately. The teacher pauses to ask a question and I feel butterflies in my stomach immediately. I’m paying attention. My friend raises her hand and answers the question.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Educators have talked for years about students shortening attention spans and how kids struggle to follow the most basic of instructions. Its creators, he tells me, want to grab attention and rack up views quickly so they get free stuff. Guillermo stresses to me that he is not a fan of brain rot videos.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

You can pose a question for a future column here. In hindsight, I created a safe environment, posed good questions, and gave them agency. In the book What the Best College Teachers Do , Ken Bain describes how sustaining students’ attention helps to facilitate learning. We have a core question to explore, or a goal to pursue.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For both questions, as it turns out, it depends on who you ask. Joseph South, chief learning officer for the International Society for Technology in Education Striking a Balance So how should districts weave teachers into the edtech process? If a teacher brings a tool to [a district], they should pay attention.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. She tried several options before jumping on a free trial of the wireless video streaming and screen mirroring technology by Vivi, an education-focused company founded in Australia. Heading to ISTE?

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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. Perhaps, in addition to class bonding, their laser-like focus might carry over into the lesson itself, buying him 10 or even 15 minutes of focused attention.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. A second question has been given almost equal importance: Is reading a book to students online even legal? The short answer is, well, yes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

All of this stuff really draws teachers’ attention. And so you have a group of kids getting a lot of attention that have high needs, and then you have maybe 12 other kids who are managing their own affairs. So yeah, with all that, the teachers had more attention to spread. They expect a lot of adult attention. It just is.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As one respondent put it in an open response question, “This is our future, and we’re watching it be destroyed.” The snapshot of our survey about how college students respond to climate change tells us they have devoted considerably more attention to thinking about climate change than their counterparts in the general population have.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. In an hour and fifteen minute class, you asked around 20 different questions. Ask questions. With abundant gratitude, Bonni.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The last time I taught in a physical college classroom was in 1999, when my adult students shook off their weariness from a day of working and taking care of their children to pay attention to their classmates and me for three hours. I helped them frame their question to their instructor in a way that avoided defensive “why did you?”

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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. That was the argument of philosopher Kieran Egan, whose educational ideas have recently gotten attention.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, Do you have tips on how to spark curiosity for students who are in classes not in their major when I am female and most of my students are male engineers? What questions do you have now that you’ve seen this graph? large jumps in years, for example).

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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. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. Dueling for Attention Work is not the primary reason people use Duolingo.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” Eyler: That is the perennial question. It’s that in some cases attention gets really focused on a set of practices that are untested and can distract from the discussion that we have about teaching. Why does it work?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In an interview with EdSurge, Hillman says that the implications of Acton’s new study are “really interesting,” adding that it is probably the largest quantitative study to take on the question of how college deserts affect different groups differently.

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