eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But what is this topic exactly and why is it important for moving education forward? During the November 2024 meeting of CoSNs EdTech Innovation Committee , participants were asked those same questions, and shared their perspectives on what educators should do about the topic. Read on for 10 key takeaways from the discussion.

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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. At last year’s Education World Forum, discussion centered around this very idea.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

While Gen Z students are questioning the value of a college degree in a way their predecessors perhaps did not, Zoomers are keeping the rate of young people in higher education steady. Mental Health Struggles Discussions about Gen Zs mental health have held a spotlight since the U.S. Surgeon General declared it a crisis in 2021.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This is the question educational technology experts will tackle Oct. 8 in a CDW Education webinar titled “Achieving Better Student Outcomes with AI and Interactive Solutions.” How can K–12 leaders ensure artificial intelligence is appropriately integrated into classrooms?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. Far too many distance learning discussions in the spring began with identifying digital tools. School leaders asked: Which apps should we download?

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, June 16, 2022) – The Discovery Education K-12 learning platform won the Best Education Platform award for PK-20 and the Mystery Science service earned the Best Science Instructional Solution award for Grades PK – 8 as part of the recent 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. The more important question is, when will these tools become ubiquitous in schools? The answer is far faster than we have previously seen technology impact education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

After asking her a few more questions about the conversation, she added, “I didn’t necessarily want special treatment or changes to his workload. In a 2018 Harvard Business Review article , researchers Guy Itzchakov and Avi Kluger discuss their research findings around listening in the workplace. She paused.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? What innovations might redefine the learning environment?

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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.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

And I think there’s no question that when you think. John Watson So first of all I want to just echo the point that you’re making in your question, which is in these online settings relationships and student engagement are absolutely critical and I don’t. So that’s one version of the answer to your question.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Part of that may be the ambiguity of the question, and this is a time where we see ESSER dollars have been running out, she says of fall 2024 when the data was collected. One much-discussed technology offers a potential solution: artificial intelligence.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? This year at St.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2021

Questioning the end, or purpose, of education is an exercise that modern students, professors and college leaders engage in all the time. Education technology that promises shortcuts for “delivering content” cannot substitute for the hard mental labor of thinking, Newstok says, nor the skilled craftsmanship of teachers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

However, these worksheets merely listed definitions and coping mechanisms without providing engaging content or opportunities for meaningful discussion. This program aimed to blend their passion for basketball with meaningful discussions on emotional expression and self-worth. How did you overcome it?”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. One possible application is to use new AI tools to help educators and researchers make sense of all the student data theyve been collecting.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

Educators can easily connect students to standards-based resources that provide the literary context necessary to ensure student understanding of the texts they’re reading in ELA lessons. Essential Questions: over 300 question prompts designed to engage student curiosity and provide a starting point for literature research.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Details for the program: The CTO Academy For K-12 Early Career and Aspiring CTOs is a program to address the needs of education technology leaders who are new (less than four full years) to their CTO or Technology Leadership position or aspiring CTOs and EdTech leaders currently working in a technology department.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I decided to also record myself conducting a similar lesson, so we could go over the lessons together, discuss what works and what doesn’t, and set goals for improvement. Then, the platform’s computerized coach provided observation tips and asked me a number of questions to consider as I began to analyze my video.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap. I think about these questions each day as I prepare my students to pursue a career in education, and over the years, I’ve found that incorporating CTE skills into teaching helps students have a deeper learning experience.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. One group of researchers analyzed 18 million photos posted by U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And with this change comes a host of new questions—concerns about the ethical design and implementation of these new tools. In K-12 education, a focus on ethical considerations is of critical importance. Students, as consumers and users of AI tools themselves, need a foundational education on what AI is and how it works.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For many faculty, that last question is causing the most friction around campuses. Instructors across the disciplines question how and where their students will use AI. While I see that as a valuable question, I also reflect on my own childhood. Instead, they form the basis for our classroom discussion in the following meeting.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. This was giving me 100 percent quantifiable data on how many questions I asked and how often I asked them in a 90-minute class,” York says. It’s not a rubric.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

To start each class, I ask a check-in question that has nothing to do with math: What is bringing you joy right now? Preservice teachers in our classes appreciate having opportunities to discuss their own ideas and analyze their classmates’ work, bringing them to the conclusion that math problems can be solved in different, creative ways.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

This approach necessarily involved falling back on tried and true pedagogical best practices that have guided my teaching practice throughout my career while also using innovative educational technology and creative problem solving to assess and address the needs of the moment. Building engagement into lessons keeps students invested.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

There's one fundamental question that I ask myself, and it's always, “How do I create a content lesson so that it is engaging for all learners?” Well, as you might expect, she’s a talented and dedicated educator. EdSurge: How do you bring the principles of UDL into your classroom—with or without the help of technology?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Their developing brains observe and question the new, unfamiliar or confusing in an effort to understand the world and their place in it. But if you’re like me, your K-12 experience focused more on educational standards than creative exploration. Such exploration is key to learning. Do they have a stake in their own learning?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

One thread that quickly emerged from our initial discussions was teacher practice. After these discussions, I posed a question to my students: “Do you all want to lead a training for us–your teachers–focused on how we could do better?” Next came the trickier part: planning an engaging professional learning experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? How Harmless?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

During the discussion, I compared my own experiences with the characters in the scene. However, as I walked out of the classroom, it dawned on me that I couldn’t simply ask Daniel to mimic the structure of my discussion. Questions to ponder in reflection may include: What were your initial reactions to the passage?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

When it comes to education technology, most educators would agree on two primary premises: Our needs are many, and we’re not short on tools to meet those needs. When it comes to education technology, most educators would agree on two primary premises: Our needs are many, and we’re not short on tools to meet those needs.

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