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JANUARY 24, 2025

Enhancing IEP goal progress with data-driven insights using technology: There are a variety of learning platforms that can monitor a students performance in real-time, tailoring to their individual needs and intervening areas for improvement. This study mentions that the ReadWorks program, used for progress monitoring IEP goals, has 1.2

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APRIL 28, 2025

Understanding these dynamics could reshape your perspective on what effective education looks like today. The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S.

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MAY 30, 2025

Fulfilled and Frazzled Katharine Strunk, dean of the University of Pennsylvanias Graduate College of Education, wasnt surprised by the studys findings about teachers feeling toward their workplace versus their workload. One much-discussed technology offers a potential solution: artificial intelligence.

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

colleges and universities as part of a larger study on how people living in America encounter and respond to climate change news and information. That’s when discussions can happen and students can see how community climate action amplifies solutions, which can then counter despair, inform policy making and spark hope.

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MARCH 2, 2021

In “Love's Labour's Lost,” a comedy that William Shakespeare wrote in the 16th century, the character Biron asks, “What is the end of study?” Questioning the end, or purpose, of education is an exercise that modern students, professors and college leaders engage in all the time.

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JUNE 9, 2023

This sparks greater interest in literature, enabling teachers to facilitate meaningful interactions that inspire more compelling classroom discussions that increase critical thinking skills, delivering better learning outcomes. Download/view screenshots of Gale In Context: Literature.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

According to a recent study , this ratio has stayed stable for years, but teachers are under more pressure and are working more hours than ever before – an average of 52-58 hours per week. Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With billion-dollar fundraises on top of billion-dollar valuations , it’s no mystery that the education technology industry is attracting top dollars from investors. The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. But if you make the horizon the rest of their lives, you can help students understand how even studying for an exam has a utility.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Some speakers discussed empathy directly, like Graetz, who co-led a session about building more of it into the design of online courses. Another was Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton professor of African American studies who gave a speech about how racism can seep into and be shaped by education technology and other tools.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In our increasingly digital world, educators recognize the significance of integrating AI tools in the classroom. AI integration can address diverse learning needs , promote data-driven decision-making , and spur class discussion. This later became a great discussion point with my students. What can we do about that?”

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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MAY 13, 2020

“It’s one of the easiest things to do to really understand what that environment looks like, feels like and behaves like,” says Kerry Rice, a professor at Boise State University who has studied effective online learning. You can teach all of your topics without technology or with limited technology.”

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. Most notably, it became clear that for Black women educators in this study, being a teacher is more of an identity than a job title.

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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? That is a research and methodology question we have to discuss.”

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

"Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. Then, in real time, students and I would engage in extended discussions of the themes I’d covered in my recordings.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts. To reach every student in the U.S., Thinking historically is at the root of those skills.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

So he made a small adjustment: He stopped tying class discussions to the previous night’s homework. Salazar is part of a growing movement of educators rethinking homework in light of the pandemic. But educators disagree about how they should respond. Ray Salazar Many educators have been in “survival mode,” Maxey says.

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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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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. For instance, teachers may consider replacing one-sided lectures with more group discussion, or they may make sure to ask follow-up questions to students’ answers.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

But are those who study at all-online programs making the same connections—or are they finding other ways to connect to the job market after earning their diploma? One way is for remote learners to join digital networks, especially those that engage them in online class discussions with offline participants.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 8, 2023

From the Ask a Tech Teacher crew, here’s a topical article on how to use AI in your education journey: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education Technological innovation is now casting its shadows over the education sector as well, making learning experiences better than ever before.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

Our recent AI in Higher Ed: Hype, Harm of Help study revealed that more than half of students in the US expect that their use of generative tools will increase in the next six months and at least 38 percent report that they are already using these tools during their studies every month. educators about their attitudes toward AI.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The report released by GoGuardian , an education technology company supporting thousands of K-12 schools and over eight million students through powerful tools and research, captures field research from the GoGuardian Research and Insights team, with insights from more than 450 students, teachers, administrators and policy leaders across the U.S.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

We often neglect to discuss the real impacts of diverse life experiences and circumstances. But too often, we simply avoid discussing topics related to identity. Our local histories, our neighborhood green spaces and our students’ extended families offer all kinds of academic connections that can enrich our studies.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. Synchronous online learning allows you to build a community, discuss and interact over content, and helps your learners to maintain a regular schedule.

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MAY 17, 2021

It starts with studying and discussing identity, and then using students’ understanding of identity as a foundation for infusing it into the entire curriculum. When studying the history of Chicago with my third-grade students, understanding identity was critical to understanding Chicago’s long-standing inequality.

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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. The continued proliferation of AI in education technology could expose many teachers to subpar content.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Participating in a simulation of the Constitutional Convention offered them a structured experience to practice the skills necessary for civic discourse—listening, discussing and compromising. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside.

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MARCH 16, 2023

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs. Capo says U.S. It’s expected professional time to actually improve your craft,” Capo says.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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APRIL 8, 2021

The “outside-in” model of knowledge creation in teaching, where teachers are passive participants in studies and researchers exist outside of the everyday classroom, is no longer our best path forward. But the onus does not rest solely on educators. But research can play an important role in this as well.

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JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. For example, my students read a variety of books about education to learn more about challenges and solutions in the field.

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MAY 2, 2023

Department of Education, came together to consider how the sector can close the gap between the edtech that exists and the emerging evidence that supports it. You can watch a recording of the discussion or read a summary of it below. The natural starting point for edtech providers, instead, is pursuing ESSA Level IV certification.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Keith Curry Lance of RSL Research Group has been studying school librarian employment for a long time, roughly 30 years since his first study came out. Lance and Kachel’s three-year study, The School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution? EdSurge: What is the SLIDE study? In that time, he has seen a lot of changes.

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