Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

generate questions, review/structure answers) Beyond verbal language, visuals are an important facet of communication and students need to be prepared for more multimodal communication tasks at the workplace (Brumberger, 2005). It cannot fully understand subtle aspects like culture, values or emotional nuances (Hwang and Wu 2024).

Writing 98

Writing Students Communication Lecturing 98

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Plagiarism-detection software like Turnitin monetizes student intellectual property and contributes to a culture of suspicion in education. That culture is getting normalized here, of professors being able to take the furthest lengths possible to make sure [students aren’t cheating],” she said. “It I trust you.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 118

Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

generate questions, review/structure answers) Beyond verbal language, visuals are an important facet of communication and students need to be prepared for more multimodal communication tasks at the workplace (Brumberger, 2005). It cannot fully understand subtle aspects like culture, values or emotional nuances (Hwang and Wu 2024).

Writing 92

Writing Students Communication Lecturing 92

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

The AI in Education Leadership Catalyst community of practice was intentionally designed to foster the strategic leadership and collaborative networks necessary to navigate the complex implications of generative AI. Essential questions guided our initial ideation process: Whats our vision? What will we adjust? Recognize oppression.

Learning 111

Learning Participation Feedback Curriculum Design 111

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

And I think there’s no question that when you think. Have you seen examples of that working, and if so, what are some of the best practices to kind of establish the culture that all Ed tech leaders know is important in person? So that’s one version of the answer to your question. These different ways. Kevin Hogan We.

Learning 130

Learning Discussions Gamification Technology 130

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

The questions arise as one prominent chain of Montessori-inspired schools shrinks rapidly. With a dipping economy, a fight about school voucher options and confusion about what the “Montessori” term even means, is Montessori still the “it” trend in the preschool world?

Education 142

Education Schools Study Teaching Methods 142

Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

In summary Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that matter for college and life success. Alba has wondered, though, whether turning to ChatGPT with these sorts of questions represents an overreliance on AI. I won’t lie. It’s a helpful tool.”

Students 64

Students Study Academic Integrity Questions 64

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2025

But as with every other form of media creeping into children’s lives, a familiar question persists: How helpful to learning is it — and does it fall under the dreaded “screen time” umbrella? While cassette tapes may be a thing of the past, a new medium has stepped up to entertain and teach children: podcasts.

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Study Questions Science Grades 122

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

I had this question of when you utilize these measures in groups with different characteristics. She eventually took that question to Northwestern University, where she is now building out her own artificial intelligence technology system that could potentially quell the issue.

Languages 140

Languages Language Intelligence Testing 140

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Mancuso, superintendent of Eastern York School District , leads a community of 2,300 students across five schools and brings 36 years of public education experience. The hardest part was making the shift.

Beliefs 107

Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 107

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

And it also doesn’t necessarily go away if our culture changes in three to four years.” Such an outcome raises important questions about young readers in rural America accessing digital books from just a handful of well-resourced urban libraries hundreds of miles away.

Accessibility 211

Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture. She told me that although he enjoyed the new school, it was a culture shock from his previous school. Now, I’m not so sure.

Culture 210

Culture Students Fairness Questions 210

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In order to truly address trauma, we must also consider both the cultural experiences and socioeconomic inequities that impact our students. In my experience, teachers who have the most success with their Native students take into consideration these cultural strengths during their planning and instruction.

Culture 203

Culture Teaching Knowledge Coaching 203

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

Culture 205

Culture Math Science Beliefs 205

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In this light, SEL should not be reserved for special projects but instead woven into the daily culture of both the in-person and virtual classroom. Trust and community culture need to be established before students are ready to share personal information. with low-stakes opinion questions such as, “Hot dogs or Hamburgers?”

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? Hence, when I saw that the facilitators of the GBL webinar were appropriating Indigenous culture, I had to speak up.

Culture 208

Culture Teaching History Social Studies 208

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people. That is the question that I was asking myself over and over again, and I shared this idea with Roland Fryer. I think that the formal space is actually hungry for more culturally relevant content.

Culture 207

Culture Instructors History Education 207

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To help better preserve and share the teachings of his Native culture, he decided to try the latest in high tech tools — virtual reality. So for the past year, Ten Brink has been trying the approach, taking a 360-degree camera out in the field to capture key cultural practices. he wondered. How do you put somebody in that space?”

Culture 186

Culture Teaching Coaching Science 186

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I work intentionally to ensure students’ linguistic capital—an expression of community cultural wealth — is acknowledged through language supports via student pairings and vocabulary, sentence, and speaking scaffolds. Together, we create a rich and culturally wealthy community of learners.

English 186

English Culture Languages Language 186

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

González and Framingham State University, where she is interim director of Whittemore Library, are part of a consortium in Massachusetts looking to answer different questions. culturally relevant textbooks? Beyond Affordability To explain the emphasis on cultural relevance, González calls on her memories of growing up in New York City.

Textbooks 185

Textbooks Culture Students Participation 185

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although I was doing interviews at that time for a piece on low morale in higher education, I didn’t have a good answer to her question. Still, I couldn’t get the department chair’s question out of my mind. Both of us have received countless emails affirming the pervasiveness of the problem and asking the same basic question.

Culture 176

Culture Education Questions Attention 176

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Who Is Edtech Made for?

Knowledge 147

Knowledge Educational Technologies Technology Education 147

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

Whether educators need to learn how to use edtech tools, analyze student data or implement Common Core standards, online PD can offer educators support when and where they need it. But how can school leaders integrate online PD into their culture quickly and effectively?

Culture 172

Culture Distance Learning Communication Lecturing 172

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars. Previously, it had been questioned not by the political right but by the left. Educators are not alone in the belief that this work is important.

Culture 180

Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 180

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.

Culture 183

Culture Education Schools Communication 183

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For decades, researchers have highlighted the importance of comprehending and integrating diverse cultural elements to enhance teaching and learning practices. When people hear the term “culture,” it is often associated solely with ethnic culture.

Culture 130

Culture Syllabus Critical Thinking Intelligence 130

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2021

That was the question posed to professors who gathered virtually on a recent Tuesday afternoon for a theatrical lesson in bystander intervention. That’s the creative solution more colleges are turning to as they try to make their cultures more inclusive for people who find themselves marginalized within academia. We’re actors.

Culture 164

Culture Syllabus Discussions Study 164

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

We decided to build our work on a solid foundation that started in 2012, when we created a school culture framework around mindsets. FCPS teacher specialists on a break from MBE training in April 2019 (Credit: Margaret Lee) We framed our work around four questions, through the lens of research: What should we keep doing?

Questions 180

Questions Teaching Education Learning 180

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

For others, the new restrictions have so far mostly raised questions. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World.” “In We do a lot of boba tea, stuff like that, to boost our emotions,” he says.

Culture 159

Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 159

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For decades, researchers have highlighted the importance of comprehending and integrating diverse cultural elements to enhance teaching and learning practices. When people hear the term “culture,” it is often associated solely with ethnic culture.

Culture 110

Culture Syllabus Critical Thinking Intelligence 110

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

This discussion aims to navigate through commonly cited concerns from educators, highlighting how each perceived obstacle to integrating AI into classrooms can actually be overcome through applications of the very technology in question. No one thinks AI should replace the essential human elements of teaching.

Ethics 338

Ethics Gamification Schools Discussions 338

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As educators introduce new technologies in their classrooms, successful adoption and improvements to student outcomes will hinge on thoughtful strategies and intent to embrace change. Advancements in education technology History has taught us that innovation is inevitable.

Hybrid Learning 317

Hybrid Learning Cognitive Development Intelligence Motivation 317

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2021

is 52 percent, while the share of teachers of color is only 21 percent, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics , and many institutions of higher education have not been effectively addressing the challenge. The composition of students of color in public schools in the U.S.

Teachers 217

Teachers Culture English Languages 217

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

I used the tour as the baseline for a lesson in my 3 rd grade Technology Explorations class and created a question guide to go along with it, functioning as a scavenger hunt in a sense as students used the elements of the tour to find the answers. Makr Another AR tool I have utilized with students is Makr.

Students 322

Students Art Instructors Science 322

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

Engaging Black boys effectively in conversations about emotional wellness requires a deep understanding of their unique experiences and cultural backgrounds. Culturally relevant approaches are essential in supporting their emotional development and fostering a sense of belonging. How did you overcome it?”

Culture 198

Culture Failure Participation Discussions 198

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni, In the midst of this current COVID situation, I'm looking to up my game … as an educator … especially in the online environment. Instead, he used a familiar set of educational technologies, but often used them in unfamiliar ways.

Online Learning 213

Online Learning Reading Teaching Philosophy Learning 213

Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Now, as a teacher, Roshan leverages technology to create more equitable and empowering forums for discussion in her classroom—shifting away from a culture that praises the first person to raise their hand to one where every individual has a platform that supports them in making their ideas seen and heard. I don’t want to be wrong.

Math 218

Math Assignments Discussions Culture 218