k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam Ngo Thanh is an educational leader, innovator, and advocate for equity-driven, holistic learning. Currently serving as the school leader in Vietnam, he brings over a decade of experience in school leadership, teacher training, and educational transformation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

AI tutors are transforming education by offering personalized, accessible, and efficient learning support. They are not intended to replace human educators, just complement traditional teaching. But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

Reciprocal reading is a structured yet flexible strategy where students work together to make sense of a text using four roles: summarizer, questioner, clarifier, and predictor. Here we’ll explain how it works and why it’s worth educators using it in their classroom. And these aren’t just, “What color was his shirt?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

In fact, the answer to the question… “What online images can I use?” Here’s a general collection of websites addressing copyrights and digital law that will help to address your specific areas of interest: Charts and Tools , Academic and Educational Permissions , and Copyright FAQs.–from

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Educators can incorporate assignments that require students to verify AI responses, identify bias, and analyze conflicting perspectives.

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Critical Thinking Skills Ethics Academic Integrity 69

Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Educators can incorporate assignments that require students to verify AI responses, identify bias, and analyze conflicting perspectives.

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Teach Thought

JULY 11, 2025

Views Facebook Linkedin Print These Learning Strategies Make Students Curious by Terry Heick Understanding where curiosity comes from is the holy grail of education. Education, of course, is different than learning but both depend on curiosity. Education implies a formal, systematic, and strategic intent to cause learning.

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k12 Prospects

JUNE 27, 2025

Why Schools Use RFPs Ensuring Fairness: RFPs create a level playing field where multiple vendors can compete based on qualifications, pricing, and value. Offer Competitive and Transparent Pricing: Schools have budget constraints, so pricing should be fair and transparent with clear cost breakdowns. FERPA, COPPA).

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

This months episode explores how remote and digital learning has evolved beyond emergency pandemic measures into strategic, purpose-driven educational approaches. Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Innovations in Education. East School News podcast, where we explore the innovation, shaping education in the digital age.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Inspect all aspects of the water cycle Kids start learning about the water cycle early in their education, but, to help them fully grasp it all, go beyond looking at charts and watching the weather. Differentiated science questions, including short answer, multiple-choice, and fill-in-the-blank, make it easy to reach every learner.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 25, 2025

I receive a fair number of newly published early childhood/teaching books, often unsolicited, with the idea that I'll write a review or otherwise promote it on the blog. I hope that each one of these books finds its audience, even if I'm not included in it, but there is one type of education book that really, really gets under my skin.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

Among the hurdles is helping families — and educators themselves — understand one of the flagship offerings of the program: transitional kindergarten. Families can also choose to enroll children at private early childhood education centers at their own expense. That chasm could cause future problems.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

As an educator, I undertake my responsibilities by ensure that the places in which we gather are safe enough so that they may exercise their freedom without undue risk. But that doesn't mean I don't trust them with freedom.

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Writing Questions Fairness Education 84

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? Is it fair to judge someone based on social media posts from years ago? Subjects: English Language Arts, Writing-Essays A number of topics, questions to consider, and research ideas help high schoolers choose and debate their argument.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

But, yes, at the end of the day, if more people, more Americans understood what teachers are teaching in history classrooms, theyd have a very different attitude about how to fix some of the problems of public education. It creates a lot more work for educators, Futrell says. It is basically taking away from our instructional time.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Back in March, copyright was not top-of-mind for many people, as health and educational continuity took precedence. Plenty of content was used without permission of the copyright owners–some under legitimate “fair use,” some out of lack of knowledge, and some opportunistically.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. It’s a valid question that even my high school students ask.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Part I: Transitioning from Whole Group to Small Group In the ever-evolving education landscape, one of the most pressing challenges teachers face is striking the right balance between time efficiency and ensuring equitable learning opportunities for all students. Will they retain the information?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As a digital learning team, we were assigned the responsibility of exploring the full spectrum of AI in education. The broad nature of this request led to investigations of AI in cybersecurity, data science, marketing, healthcare, and education. On the 6th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on ethical AI use.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

As a digital learning team, we were assigned the responsibility of exploring the full spectrum of AI in education. The broad nature of this request led to investigations of AI in cybersecurity, data science, marketing, healthcare, and education.

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Ethics Education Intelligence Culture 335

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. The Texas Education Agency did not respond to EdSurge’s request for comment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? So they write a bunch of tests items or questions of different kinds. asks Mark Moulton.

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Testing Fairness Multiple Choice Questions Exams 167

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Commission on Artificial Intelligence in Education is chaired by South Carolina Gov. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Commission on Artificial Intelligence in Education is chaired by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and is co-chaired by Brad D.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

I spent hours reviewing notes that spanned an entire semester because it was all “fair game.” It also saves teachers time because they do not have to grade every question they develop for every child. a one size approach to any part of education is not equitable. less is more and 2.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Her experience mirrors what we see in many sectors, including education. By actively supporting female colleagues, male leaders not only promote fairness but also drive better outcomes for their organizations. One of my biggest lessons was to have a male that knew me and could speak up for me, especially when I was younger.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

But AI’s popularity is not without cause, given how often educators are reminded of how AI can personalize learning and how students will need AI skills to compete for future jobs. With AI dominating headlines in all industries, it’s a relatively common question: Is everything about AI?

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Ethics Fairness Learning Intelligence 319

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

DENVER– ( BUSINESS WIRE )–MindSpark Learning®, a nonprofit organization committed to elevating educators and being the direct intersection between education and industry, has launched its first Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) course in a series. Educators need an understanding of what AI is and is not.

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Intelligence Ethics Fairness Education 246

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As schools, teachers and families face the shock of abruptly shifting to online education, one small question has been how to shift these read alouds to Zoom, Facebook, Google Hangouts and YouTube, the spaces where many classes continue to meet. What Is Fair Use? In the U.S.,

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Reading Fairness Teachers Disabilities 218

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Key points: Real-world relevance makes STEM learning more personal for students 12 lesser-known K-12 STEM education resources Using free resources to connect the environment to education For more on STEM concepts, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Why are we learning this? This is a question every educator has faced before.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Charania, former education senior research fellow at the Christensen Institute. What’s being called the craziest college admission season ever is also proving to be a natural experiment for the American education system. These values may show up embedded into the logic of questions, as well as on expectations of speed of completion.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

[ Editor’s note : This post by Alan November, written exclusively for eSchool Media, is part of a series of upcoming articles by this notable education thought leader. Learn from the best innovations in education! Check back soon for the next must-read post!]. My son, Dan, took the course. My son, Dan, took the course.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The field of education is no less affected by these technologies. And with this change comes a host of new questions—concerns about the ethical design and implementation of these new tools. And with this change comes a host of new questions—concerns about the ethical design and implementation of these new tools.

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Ethics Intelligence Education Plagiarism 217

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2017

As Dan Rothstein, executive director of the Right Question Institute, tells the story: “The teacher presented the following equation: 24 = (smiley face) + (smiley face) + (smiley face).” Then, she asked her students to think of as many questions as they could about the equation. 3) Write down every question exactly as stated. (4)

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2023

As a former molecular biologist turned college and 7-12 educator, I have taught laboratory science classes for the past 3 decades. I’ve seen a lot of changes in science education (especially digital content) over the last 30 years, but one challenge has remained the same: students have to learn laboratory skills.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the Baldwin Union Free School District , educators and leaders are working diligently to avoid brain rot as they strive to teach students how to ask questions, evaluate information sources, and become actively involved in their communities. The districts biggest focus is on media literacy education and civic engagement.

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