Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. We have taken the risk out of education,” Collier declared. As Craig warned: “Everything that can be tracked will be tracked.

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Questions Beliefs Change Management Learning Outcomes 104

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? How do you collect it?

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Multiple Choice Questions Beliefs Education Culture 166

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JANUARY 10, 2024

chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, inspired us with the noble story of his journey as a Black male education leader and gave us tremendous insight into the value of stepping into leadership boldly. Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 189

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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know it is important to be able to address the needs of diverse learners. Espoused Values and Beliefs The first source of information ought to come from your espoused values and beliefs. How long has it been since you reviewed it?

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Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 152

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and the educational system often harbor implicit biases that result in lower expectations for Black students, particularly in mathematics. This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 213

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AUGUST 15, 2017

We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous beliefs to be untrue. So why are people so easy to fool when it comes to beliefs about learning? But those beliefs persist. Beliefs about science can become entangled with our self-identities, even if they didn’t start out that way.”.

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Learning Styles Beliefs Learning Evaluation 158

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The question is: How do I empower our white teachers to be their most authentic selves while creating culturally responsive experiences for our students of color? Questions to ponder in reflection may include: What were your initial reactions to the passage? What came up for you as you read about the character’s experience or feelings?

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Beliefs Culture Education Students 187

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AUGUST 27, 2018

There’s a much more fundamental question we need to ask ourselves: Do we really understand the root causes of inequitable education, and do we really believe in equity? Asking the Big Questions Addressing equity with a growth mindset is an opportunity for educators to take off their teacher hat and put on their learner hat.

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Discussions Beliefs Achievement Disabilities 165

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Their developing brains observe and question the new, unfamiliar or confusing in an effort to understand the world and their place in it. But if you’re like me, your K-12 experience focused more on educational standards than creative exploration. Such exploration is key to learning. Recommended Resources. Get started with GoGuardian.

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Learning Outcomes Beliefs Student Engagement Feedback 216

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MAY 14, 2024

That’s a question long faced by high school students. More than 100 local businesses set up tables with company banners and flyers about what it means to work for them, with representatives on hand to answer questions. Today students are “asking better questions,” she said. “So PAUL, Minn. Others don’t. and ‘College for what?’”

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High School High School Beliefs Fairness 185

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JULY 13, 2022

For professors designing virtual reality versions of Shakespeare’s plays, that is the question. The answer(s) may have implications for designing new edtech tools—and VR technology intended to be used beyond the classroom, too. These are the kinds of questions that the creators of extended reality learning tools are thinking about.

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Teaching Art Beliefs English 187

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AUGUST 18, 2021

According to a new research paper , the answer to both questions is yes. Despite strong beliefs among some parents and advocates, there’s only limited research about whether recreational screen time is itself bad for kids, according to Hartshorne. Parents are less anxious and depressed. That was a pretty solid finding.

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Study Beliefs Peer Review Schools 160

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MAY 27, 2025

This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. This narrow role was exhausting and disingenuous. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning.

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Education Essay Culture Math 83

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The first is “classroom interactions that acknowledge students” by listening carefully to their questions and making sure they understand concepts. The second is “encouraging and available instructors” who demonstrate an interest in students’ learning and a belief in their abilities.

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STEM Lecturing Math Beliefs 217

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This research was part of a yearlong study we led, examining how our sharply divergent attitudes and beliefs about climate change are shaped by news and information we encounter, curate, engage with and share. As one respondent put it in an open response question, “This is our future, and we’re watching it be destroyed.”

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Beliefs Attention Students Discussions 201

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OCTOBER 29, 2017

CoSN is the only national professional association dedicated exclusively to education technology leaders, providing them with management, community building and tools to transform their schools and districts. Its core beliefs are: Technology is a critical tool to personalize learning.

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Educational Technologies Technology Education Beliefs 63

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. In her book “Other People’s Children,” the author Lisa Delpit writes that, “We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.” You are not a gangster.

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Beliefs Coaching History Attention 156

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JUNE 11, 2024

While such programs may help students access college who may not have been able to before, they also raise questions about the purpose of high school, about what social opportunities might be lost, and about whether the trend pushes students to make decisions about their future careers at too young of an age.

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High School High School Schools Art 206

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JANUARY 25, 2023

After these discussions, I posed a question to my students: “Do you all want to lead a training for us–your teachers–focused on how we could do better?” Underpinning this skepticism was the core belief, reinforced by schools, that young people are exclusively the learners and adults are exclusively the teachers. Wait, we can DO that?”

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Teaching Philosophy Students Beliefs Feedback 209

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JULY 22, 2019

Alexa is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon where users verbally ask questions and the AI responds with an answer. Suguey created a skill that allows English and Spanish-speaking immigrants to get answers to questions related to their rights. For example, users may ask Alexa, “Am I allowed to get my driver’s license?”

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Beliefs Exams Science STEM 167

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When I taught first grade, we started every day with a community circle, where each student was given the opportunity to respond to a daily question or prompt. A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related.

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Beliefs Motivation Classroom Management Culture 184

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

During tricky situations in the new PBS KIDS show “Elinor Wonders Why,” a curious rabbit directs a question to viewers, pausing to give them a chance to answer. Coviewing—parents sitting with kids and watching and asking questions while they watch—can have a positive impact on skill development. A child reading with the agent partner.

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Intelligence Study Questions Language 218

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And not long ago, legislation passed in the Indiana House , prohibiting teaching or assessments that may “affect the student’s attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent.” Previously, it had been questioned not by the political right but by the left.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 175

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MARCH 12, 2024

To help us dig into these questions, we invited three experts with rich perspectives for this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast: Shalin Jyotishi, a senior advisor of education, labor, and the future of work at New America. The idea that “college is a scam” has become something of a meme on social media platforms like YouTube.

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Beliefs Art Intelligence Culture 189

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Good history education empowers students to actively engage with the past they study, rather than being passive receivers of historical narratives. When students learn to ask deep questions, analyze texts and construct evidence-based arguments, they are equipped with skills that reach far beyond a history classroom.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 194

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MARCH 2, 2019

Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity.

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Education Beliefs History Culture 167

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities. Tick tick tick.my

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Math Elementary School Elementary School Beliefs 216

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. So now we’re talking about student ownership and student agency.

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Beliefs Learning Math Assignments 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. In Panorama’s surveys conducted during the 2016-2017 school year in 68 schools, we asked teachers several questions about how possible it is for their students to change various qualities about themselves.

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Beliefs Teachers Intelligence Elementary School 123

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning. As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math education and I think a lot about my years in the classroom.

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Culture Math Science Ethics 202

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

That is the question that I was asking myself over and over again, and I shared this idea with Roland Fryer. What are the strengths that your instructors bring to the table that you would love every educator to embody? I think that this is just a question of: How fast can the formal field move in this direction?

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Culture Instructors History Education 204

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JANUARY 3, 2019

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Thus, ‘global education’ is shaped mainly by a handful of universities in a few countries.

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Lecturing Language Languages Culture 167

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

Touching on matters ranging from Russian propaganda efforts to Netflix, history to philosophy, boyd’s intellectually provocative talk raised plenty of deep questions around media and manipulation. They want to ask uncomfortable questions, interrogate assumptions and poke holes at things they’ve learned,” she said.

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Critical Thinking Beliefs Knowledge Questions 156

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The vote has been in question for months now, with two influential investor advisory firms recommending against the deal and various shareholders—including Praesidium Investment Management, Rivulet Capital, Lateef Investment Management and Oberndorf Enterprises—publicly opposing the deal.

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Beliefs History Questions Participation 142

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MAY 21, 2020

Maybe we can finally ask the question: Have these strategies been working? Letting Go of Grades There is a long standing belief that grades are important because they motivate students to do the work. If they no longer want to go to college in a remote learning world, why should they push themselves to take AP Statistics?

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Motivation Grades Students Essay 218

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

We regularly poll our students and one question we ask is for them to identify what feels most daunting about the college essay writing process. In response, some colleges have adapted by incorporating supplemental questions designed to allow students to share more about themselves and their lived experiences in essay form.

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Essay Writing Beliefs High School 182

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

With that in mind, I ask educators this question: How can we use video paratext to advance inquiry and engagement? Video Framing: While an instructor can’t constantly stop the video to note what to watch for, it is possible to plant a key question or two at the outset and encourage students to keep that in mind.

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 181