Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

Building relational trust is paramount for leading communities through technological shifts. We invited diverse perspectives into curriculum design, which led to unexpected partnerships and richer learning experiences. In what ways am I demonstrating a responsible approach to technology? Embrace complexity.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

The other, from the president and CEO of Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a national nonprofit organization that provides schools with innovative, hands-on, project-based STEM curriculum designed to develop critical skills and knowledge, while preparing students for careers beyond the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Curriculum design is fundamentally emotional work, representing the journey educators plan for students to make meaningful connections with concepts. As I gained more experience teaching, I realized the most effective curriculum for students should provide a variety of options for assessment and instruction.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

It accelerated the emergence of a new dynamic learning environment, where students learn in innovative ways far different from how education systems were originally designed. With advancements in technology and the rise of remote learning, classrooms are being remodeled and redefined to fit the evolving needs of modern digital learners.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

School leaders focus on closing the technology gender gap by teaching female students to code and build websites and apps. “Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning. Some of ChiTech’s success lies in its partnership with the local tech industry.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

If the teacher is the only person thinking critically about learning goals, progress, skill development, curriculum design, and assessment, that is a missed opportunity. Teaching metacognitive skills that encourage students to become more aware of their learning can help them shift from passive to active participants in the classroom.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

He also explores how technology can aid in more accurate, unbiased, and motivational assessment methods. Technology can offer benefits in assessment by providing support for generating questions and allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge in various ways. It can help reduce the limitations of traditional assessments.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

Michele Dawson, senior director of instructional technology in Compton Unified School District in Calif., and Kelly Urlacher, senior curriculum designer at DreamBox Learning, had a conversation of essential approaches for supporting these students in “ Key Strategies to Making Access and Equity a Reality for ELL Students.”.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

We embrace a train-the-trainer model when adopting new technologies or programs, so I make sure that our librarians have the training they need to not only implement these innovations, but to share them with their teachers. We hear from each other about best practices, new ideas, and about what is working—and what isn’t.

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Skills Curriculum Design Discussions Grades 226

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We embrace a train-the-trainer model when adopting new technologies or programs, so I make sure that our librarians have the training they need to not only implement these innovations, but to share them with their teachers. We hear from each other about best practices, new ideas, and about what is working—and what isn’t.

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Skills Curriculum Design Discussions Grades 226

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

The suite includes scaffolded and leveled, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support STEM, computer science, coding, robotics, and SEL in engaging ways, and to embrace all learners from any and every background. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI-powered tools can aid in identifying gaps in curriculum design, helping institutions refine their teaching strategies. Dependence on technology: Overreliance on AI may diminish critical thinking and problem-solving skills in students, as they become accustomed to technology-driven solutions.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2016

According to surveyed district and school administrators, the five most important digital curriculum policy controls are: 1. Providing technology training for teachers. Providing technology training for students. The top barriers to digital curriculum adoption, according to those surveyed, are: 1.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

She has dedicated much of her career to helping educators integrate technology with purpose into their curriculum. Shapiro: Years ago, while working in a charter school in New York City focused on using technology in the classroom, I met Katie Salen Tekinba?. It's the same way you would start any kind of curriculum design.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In order to provide a rich, robust, and inclusive curriculum for youth, STEM needs to evolve to STEAM. And in many ways, that transition is already taking place as technology and engineering drive the next wave of art and creative expression. Here’s why creativity is essential in today’s curriculum.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

As a result, gifted students can end up as an underserved population. Q: Can you describe the approach you have taken to help solve this challenge?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The curriculum is adaptive in real-time, and technology is used intuitively to ensure every aspect of student life is safe, connected, efficient, and supportive. Through the implementation of AI and smart building technology, schools are beginning to see transformative impact across K-12 campuses.

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k12 Digest

MAY 14, 2025

Kim holds a Master’s in Educational Leadership, Bachelor’s Degrees in both Education and Social Science, and Diplomas in Teaching and Management, is an Independent Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Consultant, and a Cognitive Coach. Technology is a powerful tool for enhancing learning experiences.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

The art and technology teacher initially designed a curriculum around digital storytelling and then transformed it into a multimedia art curriculum that included iMovie, storyboarding, illustration, children’s books, and front-end web design. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. The district is in the midst of navigating another drastic shift: rolling out custom, teacher-curated curriculum designed with free, openly licensed material, district technology director Ed Eimiller said.

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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. But too often, a critical element is left out of the process: student voice. You can find the full report here , and a snapshot of highlights below.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

MindLabs by Explore Interactive brings state-of-the-art technology that, combined with award-winning EiE curricula, will provide teachers with standards-aligned, engaging activities to help students build skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, engineering design, and team collaboration — all skills required for jobs in the 21st century.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When it comes to training and developing teachers, we have been letting opportunity to leverage technology pass us by. But amid all this change, one area has remained relatively static in public education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

Dahlgren’s experience in the technology sector spans four decades, with the first half of his career in large public IT companies and the latter half in private, software and SaaS-oriented firms. In this role, Dahlgren aims to leverage the company's talent and technology to support higher education institutions effectively.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

Of all the lessons learned, the most important was this: if we center technology and deficit-based thinking in our philosophy for personalization, we not only work against our collective efforts for equitable, personalized learning, we inadvertently harm students in the process.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The biggest change for Coursetune happened last week, when Academic Partnerships, a company that helps colleges set up online degree programs, acquired the curriculum-design company. How that company has grown and changed says a lot about the growth of online programs in higher education. The price of the sale was not disclosed.)

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2016

As science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs continue to grow, the U.S. Headquartered in Houston, NISE was conceived by practicing educators and is based on thousands of hours of research, professional development, curriculum design and educational leadership.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rather than creating online degree programs from scratch, Noodle is outsourcing various aspects—recruitment, curriculum design—to other companies and bundling together the services for universities. Perhaps the university wants to outsource recruitment and analytics for its online program but handle the curriculum design internally.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. That’s the engineering side of my brain.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2020

Studies show that early exposure to science, technology, engineering and math provides students with the foundation necessary to partake in an increased number of STEM careers. Look for STEM programs and online resources that provide step-by-step curriculum designed for the classroom or PD opportunities for teachers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2022

As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. Spread across more than 40 individual buildings, Rockford Public Schools is the third largest school district in Illinois.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Every day, technology innovations transform the way people learn and how educators teach,” said Matthew Lynch, editor of The Edvocate and organizer of the Tech Edvocate awards program. The last few years, in particular, have seen a surge in investment from both school districts and investors.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

As we’ve already mentioned , personalized learning should not and cannot be purely centered on technology. This means not simply examining technology’s role in education, but exploring what learning sciences, community development and social-emotional research can teach us about the holistic picture of personalized learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

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