eSchool News
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Related: When it comes to civics, the right resources make all the difference for students How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies 5 ways to teach and assess learning in the age of AI For more news on curriculum resources, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub This school year marks my 20 th year in education and my 12 th year at Rockingham Early College High School in Wentworth, NC.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Despite the historic funding that was funneled into the field in the wake of the pandemic, early care and education continues to be one of the most beleaguered occupations in the United States. Early childhood educators earn, on average, $13.07 per hour, a wage that puts them in the bottom 3 percent of workers nationally. (Elementary and middle school teachers, by comparison, earn an average of $31.80 per hour, and U.S. workers, across occupations, earn about $23 an hour.
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EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Before William Pierce began his career in K–12 information technology, he was a classroom teacher for nearly a decade with Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky. He has multiple master’s degrees in education, and at one point he considered becoming a school principal. Today, Pierce is executive administrator of the same district’s IT3 program.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Here are popular online resources to teach about using games in education ( click here for updates to the list ): Battleship on Google Sheets Breakouts by BreakoutEdu.com — a bit like Webquests but more comprehensive Breakout Room Template Game Show Templates –Frazzle, Jeopardy, Family Feud, Price is Right, more Gamified Syllabus –a template to create games A Google A Day Economics and Finance BizKids –games to teach business and finance History Beat the Bard –using Shakespearean characters Cl
Cult of Pedagogy
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Listen to my interview with Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Entrepreneurship studies are not solely for business course students (Hall, 2021). At the collegiate level, many students who choose a business major are aiming for careers in management within organizations or roles in business analysis, focusing on creating reports and presentations for internal or external stakeholders, particularly business leaders.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Key points: Students require guidance and career exposure to plan for the future The exposure gap is blocking students’ ability to envision future careers 3 online resources to encourage student career planning For more news on career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Much emphasis is placed on college and career readiness, but too often, K-12 students aren’t exposed to career possibilities or career resources to form an idea of what their future may look like.
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EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Nation-state adversaries and cybercriminals continue to launch cyberattacks at an unmatched pace across all industries, and the education sector is in their crosshairs. Education is among the most heavily targeted sectors due to its vast stores of valuable data and its comparatively weak security measures. Adversaries are aware of the personal data that schools, district offices, libraries and other targets hold, as well as the security shortcomings that create a low barrier to entry.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 30, 2024
In about half the world–mostly those where people live under socialism, communism, dictators, or autocracies–law and order is decided for the people. In the 1700’s, when the brand new United States of America, newly liberated from the British aristocratic rule that relied on Kings and Queens, wrote its very first Constitution and Bill of Rights, it decided to establish a system of government by the people.
Teach Hub
OCTOBER 25, 2024
If you’ve been a teacher for a while, you already know how much standardized tests shape everything from what you teach to how you’re evaluated. These tests seem to influence how you prepare lesson plans, so you may feel pressured to “teach to the test” rather than foster a love of learning. As the conversation around standardized testing grows, you may find yourself asking, “Is it helping students or harming them?
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 13, 2024
When preparing for a new term, there is much to consider. Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Since the pandemic, which necessitated the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard, there is now an additional component to consider in developing our courses. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), consider how it might be used as a
eSchool News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Key points: It is critical to monitor AI systems for bias and impact on student groups AI use guide helps students navigate AI in learning AI’s transformative role in accessibility For more news on AI and bias, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In the quickly evolving landscape of AI, education stands at the forefront. New AI tools are emerging daily for educators and students; from AI tutors to curriculum creators, the AI education market is surging.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2024
In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend. But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Esports came to Modesto City Schools in Fall 2021 when two seniors asked administrators to unblock a gaming website. Director of Educational Technology Matthew Ketchum saw an opportunity and wondered if the students at the California district, located about 90 miles east of San Francisco, would want to expand their club into an official esports program.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Education has changed. No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Students aren’t confined by the eight hours between school bells or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. Now, education can be found anywhere — teaming up with students in Kenya, Skyping with an author in Sweden, or chatting with an astrophysicist on the International Space Station.
Teach Hub
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Stress is an inevitable part of teaching. The pressure can feel overwhelming with students to guide, lessons to plan, and a never-ending to-do list. While it’s understood that stress comes with the job as an educator , that doesn’t mean you have to let it take over your life. The key is learning how to manage it effectively. Below are a few strategies to help you keep stress at bay and maintain your well-being throughout the school year.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 27, 2024
Connecting with students is a step towards increasing engagement in the classroom—whether face-to-face or online. In higher education, “building rapport” is often cited (e.g., Fitzgerald & Hooker , 2022; Hammond , 2014; Michael et al. , 2023), but that practice is not enough. When we teach, there is an unspoken power differential, and real connections have the potential to change that power dynamic.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Key points: Coding programs help students reach personal and academic goals Robotics plays a key role in early STEM education How computer science education bridges the digital divide For more news on coding programs, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub When our middle school started offering a robotics course to its students this year, it was a pretty big deal.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 17, 2024
One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. They zipped through activities with rockets and robots, and Woods asked her goddaughter — named Sailor — what she thought of it all when they were heading home.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Executives from four leading technology companies, all with tools built specifically for use in K–12 schools, gathered in late September to share how districts can combine their solutions to create a cohesive device management environment that benefits students, teachers and staff. CDW Education hosted the hourlong conversation, titled “Developing a Unified Classroom Ecosystem: Device Management, Connectivity and Student Safety,” that brought the four tech vendors together.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Three holidays are fast-approaching–Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. If you’re a teacher, that means lots of tie-ins to make school festive and relevant to students. Here are ideas for Halloween projects, lesson plans, websites, and apps ( check here for updated links ): Websites and Apps 30-day Halloween fitness challeng e Build a Jack-o-lantern (in Google Slides) Carve-a-Pumpkin from Parents magazine – Resolute Digital, LLC (app) Enchanted Learning Halloween games, puz
Scholarly Teacher
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Stephanie Wasmanski , Wilkes University Keywords : Student Choice, Student Autonomy, Self-Determination Theory Key Statement: Supporting students’ basic psychological needs of autonomy and competence through self-selected activities and positive feedback may enhance student engagement and motivation. Introduction Educators are tasked with finding strategies and creating learning environments that both support and enhance student motivation and engagement.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students. Bruffee (1999), the most prominent name in collaborate learning, describes collaborative learning as “creates conditions in which students can negotiate the boundaries between the knowledge communities they belong to and the one that the professor b
eSchool News
OCTOBER 16, 2024
This article originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Key points: AI tools can benefit students, but student privacy must be protected Creating IEPs with GenAI while ensuring data privacy It’s not business, it’s personal: Building a culture of trust to protect data For more news on GenAI in schools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In recent years, school districts have shown increasing interest in the potential of Generative AI (GenAI) to revolutioniz
Edsurge
OCTOBER 9, 2024
We’re halfway through “ Parable of the Sower ” by Octavia Butler, and we’ve arrived at a crucial turning point in the plot. The main character, Lauren Olamina, loses her family and home to an arson attack. I wanted my students to fully experience the severity of this loss, so instead of continuing with a workshop model I’d been using throughout the unit thus far, I decided to read to the class: I sat where I was for three weary, terrifying hours.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2024
K–12 schools are No. 1, and not in a good way. Last year alone, the number of ransomware attacks on K–12 schools topped the number on secondary schools, hospital systems and governments. Other numbers schools may be considering come from Microsoft, which reports that “password-based attacks make up over 99% of the 600 million daily identity attacks” in the company’s own digital ecosystem.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Understanding how to use the internet has become a cornerstone issue for students. No longer do they complete their research on projects solely in the library. Now, there is a vast landscape of resources available on the internet. But with wealth of options comes responsibility for their use. As soon as children begin to visit the online world, they need the knowledge to do that safely, securely, responsibly.
Resourceaholic
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Welcome to my 183rd gems post. This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers.1. Factor TreesI love the recent MathsPad updates. They've added a factor trees tool which is available to non-subscribers. There are multiple methods for finding prime factors - factor trees are a popular choice.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 6, 2024
As we prepared for the start of fall semester 2024, there was buzz around our campus about administration raising the caps in our condensed 8-week online courses to match the high enrollment caps for our 16 week in person courses. Of course, with the mounting pressure on administration in light of budget shortfalls, lower enrollment and the general panic surrounding the narrative that students (and parents) are finding less value in post-secondary education, it is no surprise that those not teac
eSchool News
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Key points: Early problem solving means science students will be inclined to take on more challenging tasks as they get older Helping students learn new tech skills–and exceed expectations Report finds persistent STEM career exposure gaps for women For more news on science and learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub By eighth grade, almost 50 percent of students have lost interest in science or don’t believe it will be relevant to their education or future plans.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 25, 2024
New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics.
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 18, 2024
As more K–12 schools get caught in the crosshairs of cybercriminals determined to steal the mountains of valuable data that schools must protect, cyber resilience is more important than ever. Once a bad actor successfully breaches a school’s network, it can be stressful and frustrating to get back on track. However, it’s not all bad news. It is during these trying times that most K–12 IT teams get the very clear message that they are not alone.
Ask a Tech Teacher
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Can a high school freshman be goal-oriented? Should they—or is this too early? Though many deliberate, no one yet has invented a time machine to unring the proverbial bell. And high school requires the ringing of many academic, social and economic bells. Many future-shaping decisions become final based on these four years. Zoe, like your sons and daughters, is thinking about which college she wants to attend.
TNTP Blog
OCTOBER 30, 2024
In an election year, it can sometimes seem impossible to bridge the political differences that divide us as a nation. But when it comes to education policy, our young people have no time to waste. The Aspen Institute’s recent report, Crossing the Partisan Divide in Education Policy, offers a welcome sense of hope and optimismalong with strategies to guide advocates, policymakers, and education leaders who are eager to make meaningful change in education despite the challenges.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 29, 2024
As educators, we’re always looking for ways to engage students with practical, real-world applications of business concepts. Generation Z, commonly defined as people born between 1996 and 2010, are known as digital natives because they have grown up using the Internet and other technologies (“What is Gen Z”, 2024). Generation Z has been coined “the Superhero Generation” (Luttrell & McGrath, 2021, p. xvii) because of their fascination with superheroes and the ways their generational cohort mi
eSchool News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Key points: E-rate eligibility is expanding to Wi-Fi hotspots Critical insights on the 2025 E-rate program E-rate insight protects school technology infrastructure For more news on the E-rate, visit eSN’s IT Leadership hub Learning is mobile–but how can schools provide reliable high-speed internet for students who need devices at home, but who lack connectivity?
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks. “They're pretty sneaky, so you wouldn't always know that that was the reason,” says Fleck.
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