Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” They were roleplaying.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

Check back soon for the next must-read post!]. When he first signed up for CS50, it is fair to say he was not in the habit of choosing the most demanding courses on campus. Harvard professor David Malan has managed to pull off a neat trick: His Computer Science 50 course is the most popular course at both Harvard and Yale.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Many still believe our students’ greatest weakness is gullibility; that we need to cultivate in them more suspicion of what they read. Because the goal of disinformation is to capture attention, and critical thinking is deep attention. Myth: The problem is our students are gullible. Reality: The greater risk is cynicism.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The kid-specific speech recognition that now powers oral reading fluency tools are much more accurate and effective, and have the potential to offer what I have described as an increased “return on instruction” for children and their teachers. Fluency assessment Assesses children’s oral reading fluency.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

And what can teachers do to make sure that their students are paying attention? Can Teachers Read Books Out Loud Online? by Kristina Ishmael, Meredith Jacob and Peter Jaszi Among the many questions educators had as schools closed was whether porting their reading routines over Zoom actually broke copyright laws. Actually, Yes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2024

Plus, of course, you should seek medical attention immediately. Pay attention to your surroundings during extracurricular activities as well. Always read the fine print and ask questions if you are unclear about coverage specifics. These steps help strengthen any potential claim you might have later on.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

For students who are not deaf, he says, reading on-screen text in addition to watching a professor give a lecture could make it difficult to pay attention. His or her attention would be split between the demonstration and the text. He explains that there are gray areas. She says that the new technology, however, isn’t perfect.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians. We do a read-aloud. That really warmed my heart that youre paying attention to everything that I'm bringing. You never know who's paying attention.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The same analysis found kindergarten teachers were about 15 percent more likely to use math and reading workbooks at the end of the decade. Even snacktime has disappeared in favor of extra reading practice. All of the blocks, dinosaurs, paints, puppets and dominoes the class hadn’t had time to explore were now fair game.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres a disconnect between what we know is really critical and then what were paying attention to, says Hau, executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and author of a new book about the essential role of relationships in healthy human development. We don't need scientists to tell us that. It's very intuitive.

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Intelligence Attention Writing Testing 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I’m a big advocate of rediscovering the joy of reading for pleasure. People read less and less for pleasure and spend way too much time looking at screens. But I think rediscovering the joy of reading for pleasure is important, and research supports that. On that note, what have you recently read?

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

You can read part one here. 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. Let’s be frank.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“I made a commitment to myself, my family, and my country that I would use whatever years I had left to advance civic learning and engagement,” she writes in the letter, which was published and read widely in the days following her announcement on Oct. A recent addition is a media-literacy game called “news feed defenders.”

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. So maybe you give the kid attention, but then you go talk with them about it and you hear what their experience was. EdSurge sat down with Walton after a talk he gave this month at the SXSW EDU festival in Austin. It doesn't mean not to discipline.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2024

Common Cyber Threats Facing Educators Every profession has had its fair share of internet-based troubles. To make the process easier, pay attention to the area code of the number. Read the data protection policies of online platforms before signing up. But what scams and crimes are teachers most likely to encounter?

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

And then began his most ambitious effort: Hosting and producing “Reading Rainbow,” a television program that delivered books and a love of learning to children via television. I like to say that you either read a book or she would beat you with it. So I grew up in a household where reading was like breathing.

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Education Reading Beliefs Culture 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

While there’s focus on getting kids to socialize, school leaders and administrators also have one eye trained on the slipping reading and math scores in their districts. These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

EdSurge will be hosting jobs fairs in the following cities: San Francisco ( April 25 ). What’s even more important: reading carefully between the lines of the web copy. Read Jamila’s letter. “I Knowing what makes a company click—and tick—can also quickly grab the staff’s attention. Read Michael’s letter.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

It's where you can develop your passions and read great literature under beautiful trees, maybe not so concerned about your tuition bills or what you're going to do with this education afterwards. bucolic notion of sitting and reading “Moby Dick” and discussing it. There's a number of different ways small colleges can respond.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. And those have always been the kind of problems that computers have supported students fairly nimbly in solving.”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

How do you decide whether to keep reading a book or to stop reading it? In your opinion, what sport gets too much attention? What sport should get more attention? Imagine a world where you could read everyones mind, but no one could read yours. If you woke up famous, what would you like to be famous for?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Claire Gregowicz, who along with her 20-year-old son took out an ISA to attend an UCSD Extension program offered through the San Diego Workforce Partnership, recalls that her son “initially thought it was a phishing scam” when they first read about the ISA. Part of the problem lies in the marketing language, which can border on hype.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

One need only walk into any reasonably sized public library where rows of books and quiet reading spaces sit alongside banks of public computers, teen rooms and meeting facilities hosting daily community events to see the physical manifestation of this transformation. In most cases, lack of resources is considered a liability.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators. Districts will move to adopt the Science of Reading to increase reading gains: The research to support this approach to teaching and the efficacy of it in application is strong.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

You know how to read body language telling you to call it a day or keep pushing. To be fair, such negligence is rarely intentional. And all leaders experience similarly jarring moments when they know a team member is blatantly reading and responding to email during a meeting.

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Schools Attention Participation STEM 114

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

The incident has raised questions about the fairness and validity of the admissions process as a whole, and specifically about whether the SAT is as secure as it should be. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. You didn’t first read it in the paper? So how did you find out?

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Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 119

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2015

That could mean reading, going on field trips, spending time with online PLNs, or taking calls from family members who usually end up at voice mail. That’s a fair questions considering learning is no longer done sitting in auditoriums nodding off to the wisdom of a guest speaker behind a podium. iPad, Chromebook, or netbook.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

I'm trying to do more of that work because I have realized that popularizing an idea or even drawing attention to something that has some truth to it is, it's really not enough. I really don't think it's fair for me to, or anyone else to expect teachers to implement ideas from watching a TED Talk and reading a book.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

Classroom Discussion through Translation Classroom discussion is always valuable but is particularly helpful for sustaining student attention and engagement when a lesson is being translated. It is virtually impossible to translate a lecturer who reads a paper which the translator has not received beforehand.

Teaching 106

Teaching Lecturing Language Languages 106

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

EdSurge will be hosting jobs fairs in the following cities: San Francisco ( April 25 ). While edtech “sales” jobs do garner an admirable amount of attentions, over the past twelve months, “curriculum writer” has risen to the top, capturing more than a fourth of all pageviews. Looking for a new role? New York City ( April 27 ).

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Cultivating this mindset is vital for students as it offers them a broader perspective and a sense of fairness, empowering them to confront challenges with resilience and optimism. This habit encourages them to center their attention on the positive things happening in their life and cultivates enriching experiences.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2024

Classroom Discussion through Translation Classroom discussion is always valuable but is particularly helpful for sustaining student attention and engagement when a lesson is being translated. It is virtually impossible to translate a lecturer who reads a paper which the translator has not received beforehand.

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Teaching Lecturing Language Languages 104

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The mandate made New Jersey second in the nation to implement such a measure; California’s so-called FAIR Education Act (Senate Bill 48) was passed in 2011. We also learned where the new curriculum requirements will complement current efforts and where they’ll require more focused attention on the part of district administrators.

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