eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Waltham, MA – KinderLab Robotics , a leader in educational STEAM robotics for grades pre-K–5, has launched Thinking with KIBO: Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Early Grades , a free curriculum designed to help students understand how AI tools work and think critically about how these tools can improve lives in their communities.

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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. And, most importantly: How can we design learning experiences that are as adaptive and resilient as the leaders we serve?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

When students feel more comfortable with all their peers and their teacher, they’ll likely feel more relaxed engaging and asking questions. When their questions and interests can guide how a teacher dives into a topic, they’re likely to be more receptive to the lessons, as well. Topics are Explored In-Depth. Teachers Stick Around.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I didn't have any background in games and learning, but I did have a background in curriculum design, school design and educational technology. If learning games can break out of that question-answer mold and put the student more in the driver's seat, the learning becomes more fun. So, I joined her team.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

The perception that good teachers reject textbooks and design their own curriculum has been a persistent belief of educators over the years. Curriculum resources of any kind are viewed as unnecessary, redundant to what teachers already do or should be doing. When measured against curriculum materials, teachers win every time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

What would a national Black curriculum look like? That is the question that I was asking myself over and over again, and I shared this idea with Roland Fryer. I want teachers and tutors and curriculum designers to be free to do the things that we think are good and right for kids. That’s a good question.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Access and Equity Across topics, students have raised questions and concerns around who has access to the benefits of technological innovation, and which students or groups are not being served.

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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. It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says. she says research has borne that out.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. They can present evidence to support their findings, such as photos, videos, and statistics.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

Several students stopped by my classroom throughout the day to ask questions about the project or get my feedback on an idea. How can I space out the learning in this unit to combat the compartmentalization inherently promoted by curriculum designers?

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

Students are increasingly questioning the necessity and return on investment (ROI) of a four-year degree. How students engage with their professors, the methods used to evaluate learning and retention and course curriculum design will all be influenced by the opportunities and challenges posed by AI.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. But failure is the whole point of the exercise.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. They can present evidence to support their findings, such as photos, videos, and statistics.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. The latter aspect also fits with the pedagogic co-design student role classification as depicted in Bovill et al. In Rust, C.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

That was the first question posed by special guest and former EdSurgent Mary Jo Madda at #DLNchat on December 12 when we discussed The Skills Gap—Fact or Fantasy? with fellow instructional designers, faculty, administrators and entrepreneurs. But before we could answer that question there was a lot to discuss….

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

It will last only one calendar year, feature a curriculum designed in close coordination with well-known employers, and cost nothing—at least at the outset. The question really is how much do students dislike carrying that risk themselves and are they willing to pay a premium?” For now, she says that answer is “unclear.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. The school is completely “off the grid,” powered by solar panels and wind generators.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

Lesson Observation : This includes observing a teaching session with all its happenings such as teaching strategies, students engagement, modes of interaction, indicators of learning, assessment tasks, questioning techniques, and learning activities.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 102

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

from lecture to the following seminar class), with instructor direction of the subsequent seminar including design of questions for students to address, perhaps in a roundtable discussion. The latter aspect also fits with the pedagogic co-design student role classification as depicted in Bovill et al. In Rust, C.

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Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 97

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Participants will work in triads throughout the workshop to ensure that multiple lenses and perspectives are informing our design work. This will NOT be a sit-and-get session with a few questions at the end. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. Supporting research. Register here! Related Posts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Those were a couple of questions that popped up at #DLNchat on Tuesday, August 14. Those were questions looming throughout the chat. A2: Maybe a better question would be, “how can institutions work together?” When students master a competency, have they mastered it for life? DLNchat — CBENetwork (@CBENetwork) August 14, 2018.

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Authentic Assessment Education Curriculum Design Knowledge 83

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

I have questions about whether or not being a public [university] will rein in what we know profit does to higher education. Well, you've answered all my questions. What worries me most is that [public institutions] haven’t thought about it. You have to cobble them together from like four or five providers, but they’re there.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

Lesson Observation : This includes observing a teaching session with all its happenings such as teaching strategies, students engagement, modes of interaction, indicators of learning, assessment tasks, questioning techniques, and learning activities.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 96

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We share background about the student-faculty partnership program, define linguistic implicit biases, provide examples of how these biases manifest, offer recommendations for how to challenge them, and invite a dialogue through discussion questions. Image courtesy of Unsplash.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with. and “How do we bring our vision to life?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

We wanted participants in the collaboration to be diverse, with faculty, staff, administrators and curriculum designers contributing, and we wanted students to be the focus of our discussions. Together, they reviewed the maps and exchanged insights about curriculum design and ways to work effectively with faculty.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

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Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 80

Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery. Whether you are teaching in a live or online environment, an infrastructure that supports learning is essential.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 16, 2024

She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery. Whether you are teaching in a live or online environment, an infrastructure that supports learning is essential.

Learning 111

Learning Universal Design Course Design Fairness 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery.

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Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 111

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design. Five years ago when we were in the initial planning stage for what would become AFSE there weren’t any curriculum offerings that met our goals. That is the core of computing, as well.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 18, 2025

While many of our conversations have focused on what generative AI means for student assignments and learning outcomes, there’s another question faculty are askingoften individually and quietly: How can we leverage AI in our own academic and administrative work? And more importantly, should we?

Assignments 66

Assignments Testing Course Design Writing 66

Faculty Focus

JULY 7, 2024

She serves as the principal course developer and curriculum designer who possesses a high level of proficiency in a student-centered approach to curriculum development, design, building, and delivery.

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Learning Universal Design Fairness Course Design 92

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Curriculum must be created in a way that promotes access and diversity, but also provides students with learning experiences relevant to the 21st century and beyond, and prepares them to be successful in a changing globalized society. The third step in the initial design phase is to think about and plan the feedback and assessment procedures.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Curriculum must be created in a way that promotes access and diversity, but also provides students with learning experiences relevant to the 21st century and beyond, and prepares them to be successful in a changing globalized society. The third step in the initial design phase is to think about and plan the feedback and assessment procedures.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 61

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

As more students around the world shift to virtual schools, some by necessity, others by choice, the question becomes increasingly urgent: does K12 online education dilute cultural identity by removing physical context? Which parts do I want to question? A Muslim student might feel reduced to questions about Ramadan every year.

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Culture Schools Language Languages 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

The natural place to start is within the broad but influential community of computer science education, which includes teachers, administrators, curriculum designers and anyone involved in shaping how future technologists learn.

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