eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

It’s no surprise to find that artificial intelligence (AI) made the top of my prediction list last year. If a math teacher gives you a set of problems to solve, why not leverage Khanmigo to help you solve them? Our beliefs about what is “real learning” are clouded by our own personal experiences.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective. Social-emotional learning remains a priority.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

With the disturbing news about plummeting math scores here in the US, it’s good to review math teaching in your classroom and consider better ways to deliver lessons to students. For many students, the struggle isn’t about intelligence but how math is taught. This is where an AI homework helper comes in handy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. The AI could focus on how they are doing in math and I could focus on who they are becoming as people. Last year, I had two students come back to visit me.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has presented districts everywhere with new teaching and learning opportunities. Artificial intelligence/augmented reality: It seems everywhere we look companies and products are announcing their new integrations with AI or AR/VR. This year at St.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Over the summer, academics debated the impact of growth mindset, the belief that one’s intelligence can be developed with hard work and effort, and whether it can move the needle on academic performance. One student who had been effusive about the growth mindset lessons was struggling with two-step math equations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. How possible is it for your students to change their intelligence? The only quality that students rated as being easier to change was their intelligence.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Air Force intelligence officer, offering a broad perspective on the future of learning. education system from scratch; it evolved through good intentions and shared beliefs. education system from scratch; it evolved through good intentions and shared beliefs. No one designed the U.S. No one designed the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

East Asian countries led the pack when it comes to reading, math and science, topped by China’s handpicked, wealthiest regions. students placed in the middle of the pack, scoring slightly above average on reading and science and a little below in math. And the Americans? Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum (WEF)’s The Future of Jobs report , the “fourth industrial revolution,” which is described as the confluence of emerging technology breakthroughs (such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of things and 3D printing), are utterly transforming everything we experience and understand.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Ithaka S+R , and a group called Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics , or TPSE Math. This isn’t a totally new experience for Boakye, who says he took a self-paced math course from the college last year. The mission? He doesn’t know whether that flipped approach would work as well for him in other subjects, though.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

With offerings from both companies in coding, math, game development, robotics and more, Emeritus and iD Tech are positioned to make STEM learning more accessible, paving the way for brighter futures in STEM occupations. Course topics include coding, 3D modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, and game design.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior. If there’s good news about mindsets, it’s that they are based on beliefs and beliefs can be changed. “We strive to be good at things, to develop bonds with other people, and to make our own choices” (p.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Whether it is social networking, cybersecurity, stock trading, or dating apps—at the core of all these products are intelligent algorithms based on mathematics. It also sparked his belief that textbooks could evolve from something static into more fluid resources that adapt to students’ readiness levels. Shiva Kintali, TrueShelf CEO.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The emergence of these tools in “edtech” reflects the belief that perhaps the most tangible and important benefit of education may be to get a good job. The new magic these days is artificial intelligence, or AI. As math reformer Conrad Wolfram suggests, why not let computers handle the computations ? Call it what you want.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

And so began close to 40 years of research and innovation tying together computer technology with ideas about the development of intelligence, knowledge, and learning to learn. In the early ‘60s, Seymour came to MIT and co-founded with Marvin Minsky its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior. If there’s good news about mindsets, it’s that they are based on beliefs and beliefs can be changed. “We strive to be good at things, to develop bonds with other people, and to make our own choices” (p.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Eggers recently joined us for an eclectic conversation about many facets of education—including teacher salaries and artificial intelligence, as well as designing what he calls “unnecessarily beautiful” learning spaces. With the younger kids, I have a pretty firm belief that a third grader doesn’t need to be doing their math on computers.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

So based on that framework and other frameworks like Bloom's Taxonomy and multiple intelligences, I married those thinking skills frameworks with what I felt was really relevant from the neuro and cognitive sciences and created a teaching model to a translational model. How do teachers respond to this? No," she says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

This is contrary to popular belief — that being raised with iPads means they understand all about them. Math is like that. Only math teachers like formulas and scripts. It will be years before that can be incorporated into a robot or AI (artificial intelligence). You’re a geek; I’m not.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

An Ivy League-educated philanthropist, who built his wealth from a career in technology, decides to champion education as his next cause—under the belief that today’s schools are not adequately preparing the next generation for the future. You’re not the first to talk up the looming threat from machine intelligence and automation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

The Common Core is not a curriculum, rather a collection of forty-one overarching Standards in reading, writing, language, math, and speaking/listening that shape a student’s quest for college and career. Most famously, Common Core takes simple math and insists students understand not the algorithm, but the logic behind it.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The consideration that one lacks the necessary intelligence for proceeding with initiative is usually the beginning of a downward trajectory. The common factor of crucial importance in the above theories of learning is that cognition and intelligence were malleable as affected by emotional states. I solved everyone’s problems.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s a pivotal time for artificial intelligence in higher education. And the infusion of algorithms is leading to questions—ethical questions and practical questions and philosophical questions—about how far higher education should go in bringing in artificial intelligence, and who decides what the algorithms should look like.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The consideration that one lacks the necessary intelligence for proceeding with initiative is usually the beginning of a downward trajectory. The common factor of crucial importance in the above theories of learning is that cognition and intelligence were malleable as affected by emotional states. I solved everyone’s problems.

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Teacher Mood

MARCH 6, 2025

A Fixed Mindset is the belief that our abilities, intelligence, and talents are set in stone you’re either born with ’em or you’re not. Contrastingly, a Growth Mindset is the belief that personal skills and abilities can be developed and improved through effort, dedication, and practice.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2018

We’re a city with a deep belief in tradition, and an economy driven by innovation. They do math at school, but everything else is done out at the reservation. How can all of our kids have access to the kinds of jobs that are not going to be pushed out by artificial intelligence? So, how do we do that together?

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Whether its a 60-second TikTok on the French Revolution, a deep-dive YouTube documentary on climate change, or a TED Talk about emotional intelligence, young minds are tuning in and learning, often more effectively than traditional methods ever allowed. Bonus: YouTube tutorials have rescued millions of students struggling with math homework.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

As students navigate an increasingly complex world defined by artificial intelligence, social media, and rapid technological change, the need for essential life skills has never been greater. But we we kind of focus on the on the reading and and the math scores that go down. I’m either born.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Inspired by Alexander’s success, educators at Morris Elementary also use Istation’s reports and printable resources to promote academic growth in reading and math. Through this program, HCISD began to instill a strong foundation in literacy and math in these young learners. My Math Academy?and and began a pilot of?My

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 15, 2017

But instead of a suicide vest and the promise of seventy-two virgins, the village imam enrolled him in college to learn nuclear physics, thermodynamics, chemistry, and math so complex its sole application was theoretical. As did Obeid’s belief in the purity of Allah. Much to Obeid’s surprise, he thrived on the cerebral smorgasbord.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

The teacher had found that students didnt connect with the problems in the math books and had rigged up his own lessons, after asking students what they would actually like to learn about. In math, that means showing them how quantitative reasoning applies to topics they already care about. But school just hadn't hooked him.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2017

For the past six and half years, she has led DreamBox Learning , growing the company from a startup into one of the leading providers of online math tools for elementary school children. She began her career as a banker but soon realized that to be true to her core beliefs, she wanted to have a role in education. That's fabulous.

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