Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2024

Combined with sobering reports on the persistent lack of strong evidence for edtech , it’s no wonder why the notion of using technology to “fix broken schools” has fallen out of most startup pitch decks and education TED Talks. We Need to Stop Treating Education Like a Sickness and Edtech Like Medicine To illustrate, let me use an analogy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners have shown up lacking some of the basic skills and competencies that educators and school leaders had previously come to expect. These skills are the bedrock.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. However, it usually doesn’t. One potential solution is to build Ph.D.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2025

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in todays educational system. A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Decades of research on child and adolescent development has shed powerful light on how we can best support student development. But here's what we should all find unacceptable: We have yet to widely reflect that learning in how we educate students in our schools. math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art).

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

Research shows that by the age of 12, students will develop an economic understanding that researchers describe as “essentially adult”. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“They're not going to be able to even use the controller with great effect,” says Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of screen media on infants and young children.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. On one hand, I really want to respect cognitive development, and on the other hand, I also dream to be a proud mom,” Hu says. “I dollars a year for this instruction.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In addition, DevTech recruited facilitators, such as educators and museum coordinators, from all over the country to host these events in their respective communities and created Family Coding Day protocols that are freely accessible and can be adapted for other coding technologies. What if the same principle is applied to coding?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2020

And with no educational focus since March, it’s been a bit terrifying,” Lamont admits. “We former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam and his wife, Crissy, were worrying about students like Savannah and Mia, whose educations were disrupted by COVID-19, and wondering if there was anything they could do about it.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Coming to terms with our own myopia as educators can be uncomfortable, but as we are educators first and not just purveyors of content, most of us welcome the chance to become more effective in the classroom. Educators themselves are burnt out and losing heart. Could it be that they were…bored?

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Coming to terms with our own myopia as educators can be uncomfortable, but as we are educators first and not just purveyors of content, most of us welcome the chance to become more effective in the classroom. Educators themselves are burnt out and losing heart. Could it be that they were…bored?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Given what we know about teacher retention and/or the cognitive development of young children, this is incredibly dismaying (and not limited to Massachusetts). ‘Rock star’ professor lectures + Lower-cost instructional facilitators = The future of higher education? Related Posts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Research from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine shows that physical activity can have academic benefits, stimulating kids’ cognitive development and improving their learning outcomes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 3, 2019

In a recent survey, 93% of Americans said that learning music is an important part of getting a well-rounded education. One of the biggest benefits of this is to see professional musicians at their best and study the techniques that they are using. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Companies and organizations exist to help preschool owners manage payroll, develop education programs and advertise to families. Bolden-Kramer benefits from the support of Wonderschool, a company that helps educators tackle some of these challenges in exchange for a cut of revenue. in 2018, up 3 percent since 2015.

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Teach Hub

MAY 24, 2024

In today’s technology-driven classrooms , art remains an important component of student development. Despite often being the first to be cut from the curriculum in some schools, dismissed as a luxury, or merely a source of fridge-worthy projects, art education holds profound benefits.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated. Study participants were split into groups that received different educational materials. Wheat and Chaff The study required identifying effective apps.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

T-Mobile, which makes the SyncUp watch, conducted a consumer insights study and found that 92 percent of parents of children ages 4 through 12 felt it was important to “always know where their child was,” says Clint Patterson, senior vice president of product marketing at T-Mobile. Photo courtesy of T-Mobile.

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