Culture Educational Technologies Study 
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MAY 5, 2025
Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. McLaren was preparing to replicate the study in schools in the fall with a different math game. One such game is called Decimal Point.
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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.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. In order to truly address trauma, we must also consider both the cultural experiences and socioeconomic inequities that impact our students.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. We’ve seen a real shift in terms of state standards for history and social studies. Perhaps not.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Do you know what happened?”
Edsurge
JULY 5, 2019
Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. Of course, curriculum is only a small part of what’s needed to create culturally-responsive classrooms.
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