Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

When ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools emerged in late 2022, the major concern for educators was cheating. It’s not even on my radar, because what I bring to the classroom is something that AI cannot replicate,” said Lauren Reynolds, a third grade teacher at Riverwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Why Early Childhood Teachers Require a Unique Approach to Tech Coaching By Debbie Tannenbaum I have found that there are many ways to empower even the youngest students to get creative with digital tools, writes Debbie Tannenbaum, a school-based technology coach, in an essay.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In “ The Convergence of K-12 and Higher Education: Policies and Programs in a Changing Era ,” two education professors point out potential benefits of taking a more holistic view to American education (in a volume that collects essays from other academics).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of education, I’ve been enjoying the work of Liana Finck , a cartoonist and illustrator who regularly contributes to The New Yorker. The opening to this essay , penned by Finck, sheds some light on why I find her work so entertaining. “A

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ellen Goodman has been a teaching technology for over 20 years in the Brooklyn. With more than 177 projects funded through the website, she is known as the DonorsChoose guru among New York City’s education technology community. This is a process. For the longest time teachers all wanted iPads just because they could.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

As a writing fellow, she explored the need for more radical approaches to building school communities that foster innovation, creativity, and empowerment and the importance of teacher voice in decision-making. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. Students sat with their phones tucked into novels or toggled between multiple tabs in their browsers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

First up is Mimi Kasner, principal at Francis Scott Key Elementary School in San Francisco. She tells us the ways her own learning and life experiences have been shaped by technology and how that's influenced her approach in working with students. I actually changed my career pathway.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting. Students are already figuring out they can use it to write their essays, and educators are pondering how to adapt.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Most of us in education love a good story, believe in the power of tales to evoke empathy and desperately want to share that experience with our students. Our English programs are often centered around what we deem worthy—classic, can’t-leave-high-school-without-reading titles.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Like last year , we’ve also added a selection of editor’s picks—our favorite stories, op-eds and investigations from the past year spotlighting how the education system is meeting a diverse array of challenges. The experience led the school community to recognize the need for mental-health supports. Happy New Year! So she created one.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? Middle school and elementary school were extremely challenging for me. Being able to type a lecture, or being able to type my essays has made all the difference. Excruciating.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Consider paragraphs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

NetSupport – a classroom management solution used throughout the globe – has published the results of a survey asking educators who either manage or use technology about the use and benefits of education technology in their schools. 69% believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

Picture a high school student who balances his studies with a variety of other responsibilities and activities. Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. Maybe he works at a part-time job when the school day ends, showing his diligence and drive.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

They are also working with local libraries to train parents on how to use school systems to access things such as student-performance and behavior reports on a regular basis. “We Making such a diverse school district work has been an uphill battle, and Sedlacek says they still have a long way to go. “One She is African.

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