Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching. But there are also other steps I’ve taken to change my practice.

English 202

English Language Languages Teachers 202

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Most Americans who cannot access the internet on a daily basis come from underrepresented and historically marginalized communities, including individuals with disabilities, from low-income backgrounds and those living in rural areas. The same holds for U.S. It's good stuff.

Internet 167

Internet Disabilities Fairness Accessibility 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The current technology is web-based, but his grandfather’s goal has survived the decades: increase students’ ease and comfort with reading—something that remains elusive to a shockingly large part of the population. What part of this issue does your technology address? There are a couple of components. We can take in more characters.

Reading 167

Reading Learning Disabilities Disabilities Motivation 167

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

I do not imagine that our program is their only or top priority, but I also do not imagine that it is fair to let some make up months of past due work to improve a grade from a previous semester or give extra time on evaluations without medical justification. How much do you bend? I have 22 students all on the exact same schedule.

Disabilities 128

Disabilities Students Assignments Syllabus 128

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here. In all fairness, it was pretty sweet. Looking for a way to introduce music to young learners?

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted daily life for virtually every educator, parent, and student in the U.S. It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The mandate made New Jersey second in the nation to implement such a measure; California’s so-called FAIR Education Act (Senate Bill 48) was passed in 2011. So, I think the state mandate around LGBTQIA and disability resources is really timely, considering the work we’re already doing. GLSEN resources and lesson plans.

Curriculum 108

Curriculum Disabilities Social Studies History 108

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

More than 100 people tuned in, with questions such as how to make VR accessible for students with disabilities and how to avoid motion sickness when using the technology. We work with a lot of higher education clients, mostly from a branding capacity but we're looking to expand what kind of things that we do for our clients.

Ethics 120

Ethics Disabilities Learning Questions 120

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

The incident has raised questions about the fairness and validity of the admissions process as a whole, and specifically about whether the SAT is as secure as it should be. When I came to College Board six years ago, we talked to a lot of groups representing students with learning disabilities. There are a whole series of initiatives.

Disabilities 116

Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 116

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. 2022 will be the year of decision making for K-12 educators. . Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. This is not fair” (Syed, 2023). Will you use an AI text detector?

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2015, several civil rights groups, including the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People signed a statement coming out against the Opt-Out movement in support of testing. “We

Exams 110

Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In fairness, the much-larger budget of a school system is spent supporting a bigger and more complex enterprise than even the most lavish public library. Many of these mandates support vital missions, notably the need to support all students—including those with disabilities and other challenges.

Schools 113

Schools History Disabilities Fairness 113

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Beaudoin: It's fair to say that faculty are extremely concerned about the likelihood of the spread of the virus on campus. I understand there's a debate going on at Purdue among faculty about the comfort level around teaching in classrooms. How would you summarize that discussion? How do we not exclude people while we're doing this?

Lecturing 177

Lecturing Instructors Communication Questions 177

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This allows teachers to redirect their efforts towards more meaningful interactions with students, fostering a more collaborative and supportive educational experience. AI also plays a role in the early identification of learning disabilities and special needs. This raises concerns about fairness and equity in the learning process.

Education 130

Education Ethics Gamification Learning Styles 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

I've worked with students who have autism, behavioral challenges, learning disabilities and more — and every time a student is in crisis, I'm by their side. Over the course of each year, I develop strong relationships with the students I serve, especially with the one I'm assigned to.

Assignments 139

Assignments Learning Disabilities Disabilities Fairness 139

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Murphy teaches life skills to 35 students with a wide range of developmental and intellectual disabilities. And last year, feeling like he had still more time to spare—particularly as he and his wife became empty nesters—he went to a job fair angling to become a mailman. Instead, he wound up taking a job at a brewery. “I

Teachers 198

Teachers Special Education Elementary School Elementary School 198

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. 2022 will be the year of decision making for K-12 educators. . Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

Hybrid Learning 288

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 288

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. This is not fair” (Syed, 2023). Will you use an AI text detector?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Open educational resources: undertheorized research and untapped potential. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

That's been the guiding mantra of fairness in our system. It's unbelievable how hard it is to get that [idea across] in education. At best, we need to give you a label of a disability for you to have any kind of accommodations outside of the ‘norm.’. What I want to see is a commitment to fit.

Intelligence 146

Intelligence Failure Science Beliefs 146

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Open educational resources: undertheorized research and untapped potential. Education Technology, Research, and Development, 69, 411-414.

Accessibility 95

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 95

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

Mindy, a VIPKid instructor from Michigan, believes she once heard a student being beaten during a lesson; she can’t be sure, because the parent had disabled the video feed. “I Nevertheless, many US teachers still feel they are better off staying out of it. I felt that it was abusive,” Mindy says.

Teaching 167

Teaching English Instructors Culture 167

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

And what Nichelle Nichols meant to you, as an African American—you then extended to people with disabilities, when you joined the crew of “Next Generation.” Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future meant an enormous amount to me. I’m a science fiction fan, that’s my body of literature. When I’m reading for pleasure, that’s my jam.

Education 154

Education Reading Beliefs Culture 154

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

And print-disabled users can use assistive technologies to read scanned books that might otherwise be difficult if not impossible to find in accessible formats. HathiTrust prevailed in a separate fair-use lawsuit brought by authors and publishers. That work still lies ahead.

Fairness 167

Fairness History English Internet 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2023

There's a range and a variation [of chronic absence] by ethnicity, and you see higher levels for kids who are affected by or have a disability. There’s been a fair bit of reporting about suspensions being used as a punishment for absences. But I don’t have a sense of how common that is across the country. How common is it?

Schools 187

Schools English Language Languages 187

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

So he plans to stay at Fisher, where he hopes to bring advanced teaching skills to students that other educators may ignore. “My My children are being cheated because they are not given the same experiences as their counterparts in other schools, and that’s not fair,” says Brownlee. That’s one of the reasons I stay where I am at.”

Teachers 137

Teachers Schools Coaching Fairness 137

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its fair to say it was the federal government that brought an end to racial segregation in our schools. Its the federal government that brought the end to excluding women from certain institutions of higher education. Its all of this sort of race and anti-discrimination stuff that they want the federal government to get out of.

Education 115

Education Disabilities History Writing 115

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Airplane mode can be disabled with one touch, and truthfully he’d rather not see the devices in his elementary school at all. She quickly whittled her options down to just one: a smartwatch. Hill knew of another family that had just purchased their child one of these high-tech wearables.

Elementary School 198

Elementary School Elementary School Communication Grades 198