Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Developers have been quick to create apps and content for the youngest users, adapt technology tools including video chat, tangible tech and voice-activated assistants, and develop pedagogical approaches for digital storytelling, STEM learning and coding. Technology-mediated family engagement and nudges work.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Virtual learning assistants, or mentors, will, with human overseers, autonomously support personalized development: Imagine personalized learning journeys powered by AI agents that bring relevant topics to your students’ attention, based on your interests. Diane Myers, Ph.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

So we synthesized it down to six essential qualities: mindfulness, curiosity, courage, resilience, ethics, and leadership. Lastly, the message is not STEM or humanities/arts, it is STEM and Humanities/Arts. Character was a word that was recognized around the world — even though sometimes it has a charge to it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). I’ve been there often.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). I’ve been there often.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Google is distracting, ethics are a mess.". Similarly, over in Minnesota, a K-6 STEM teacher named Rachel Pierson relies on feedback from the students themselves. “If Rachel Pierson, K-6 STEM Teacher. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM teacher and administrator.

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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. To learn more, please read our Ethics Statement. And they do. A diagram of Whole Body Listening.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). I’ve been there often.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Ethicists form an integral part of the interdisciplinary team, grappling with the moral and ethical dilemmas intrinsic to Mars colonization. Their expertise ensures that the journey to Mars is technically sound and ethically responsible, as they ponder the potential harm to Martian ecosystems and consider the broader impact on Earth.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

That’s why educators need to pay attention to cultivating skills in students that robots don't do efficiently. “We Her school spent a few months on a STEM mystery novel project that involved multimedia tools along with books to prompt deep conversations about artificial intelligence, engineering design and ethics.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 29, 2024

Ethicists form an integral part of the interdisciplinary team, grappling with the moral and ethical dilemmas intrinsic to Mars colonization. Their expertise ensures that the journey to Mars is technically sound and ethically responsible, as they ponder the potential harm to Martian ecosystems and consider the broader impact on Earth.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

implement new, supplemental ‘bread and circuses’ initiatives (say, STEM or financial literacy) that distract the general public from the year-to-year erosion of base school funding. employ bait-and-switch funding mechanisms that supplant rather than supplement and/or disappear at the last minute.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Virtual learning assistants, or mentors, will, with human overseers, autonomously support personalized development: Imagine personalized learning journeys powered by AI agents that bring relevant topics to your students’ attention, based on your interests. Diane Myers, Ph.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). I’ve been there often.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). I’ve been there often.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The What: Education hasn’t yet fully adapted to the Information Age; for example, though called “STEM,” only “St_M” is taught in K-12—very little Technology and no Engineering. Character: Some remain significantly human (for instance, ethics) and must be leaned on, while others are helped and pushed (for instance, curiosity).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

As another year closes, here’s a look at the biggest stories of the year—the ones that captured the most attention, and the ones that should have your attention. Also top of mind are worries over whether the bells and whistles of flashy educational apps are demanding too much of our attention and fostering unhealthy device habits.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

EdSurge: You’ve said that instead of focusing so much attention on making students more college-ready, we should be making colleges more student-ready. In the past, for example, a STEM student would get a low grade in a math course. My specialty is Religious Ethics. That’s a fascinating concept. Chris Anderson, Curator, TED.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Barry says positive words such as ‘helpful’ and ‘good listening’ and ‘I am acting with ethics’ when he tells me I act with quality,” she says. “If

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Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The bottom line: While high-achievers exhibit remarkable dedication, their abilities are tied to their work ethic, early exposure to concepts, and persistence rather than an innate ability to think abstractly or creatively at an advanced level. Personalize your praise and focus on specifics.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2025

The key is that we maintain rigorous standards of quality–and create clear guardrails around the ethical use of AI at a time when increasingly sophisticated models are blurring the lines between human design–and artificial intelligence. This evolution will make high-quality STEM education more universally accessible.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

Goldie Blumenstyk (The Chronicle of Higher Education): I think there was a lot of momentum behind the stories about data analytics, and the ethics and the use of data analytics in higher education. Recently, you wrote a piece about STEM education. What story did you think was a really big highlight that people missed?

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