Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. EdSurge: Is it possible to teach politics and history as a centrist? History is very complex.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Among contemporary education critics, the textbook is a classic and perennial foil—perhaps because its very construction is essentially a compromise between experts and politicians, groups with sometimes competing agendas. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What was the point of living through history if you didn’t record it? It is something that comes from a time being studied or from a person who was involved in the events being studied. It is something that comes from a time being studied or from a person who was involved in the events being studied.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. Not Caleb Brown. But I did enjoy teaching.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

What do you remember from history class? To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” schools are not well-known for teaching students history and getting them to remember it. I think you feel a little more connection.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. In the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park that I grew up in, there were no murals of Filipino American history or dynamic swing sets anchored to poured-in-place rubber child safe surfaces. To us, our task was clear.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

We are actively working on several projects that will provide a greater representation of the history of minority groups like these.”. Newly digitized, it illustrates and contextualizes over a century’s worth of history of Indigenous peoples in the United States with a depth and breadth of content that is unprecedented.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Social studies educators have the unique challenge of teaching subject matter that is constantly shifting. Just as culture, society and history are dynamic, so too is the corresponding curriculum.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With speeches, music and drumming, they mourned the long history of American slavery and racism that began on Virginia’s shores, but also celebrated the myriad cultural contributions African Americans have made to the nation. “It Woodson, whom members of the association cite as a pioneer in the field of African American history.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Two years ago, I was having lunch with good friends and colleagues Bob Regan from the Big History Project and Alan Louie, my co-founder at TextGenome. The Big History Project (BHP)’s approach relies on building a complete curriculum but inviting customization—“a perpetual first draft.” The Big History Project’s writing rubric.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced Education Technology finalists. Their innovations stand to improve the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students here in the U.S. and globally.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

WASHINGTON (PRWEB) — In celebration of the 38th annual SIIA CODiE Awards, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announces the 50 winners of the 2023 CODiE Awards in Education Technology. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. “We Founder of BrainPOP.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We are also a devoted Catholic community, founded by the Visitation Sisters to educate young women in virtue, intellect, mind and heart. To build on our founders’ mission, the school began offering a women’s studies elective titled “Women and Society”, which I have proudly taught since 2014.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Instead, she’s taking an open-study research course on a subject she was already thinking a lot about: the COVID-19 pandemic. “I I feel like learning about it in the open study dives deeper into what’s actually happening” with the pandemic, says Mosana, who attends a local public school in Brooklyn, N.Y. “We Sweden, China, Brazil.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Outside the Computer History Museum, where its 26th demo day was held, an autonomous tractor drove in circles next to a massive 3D printer assembling an office pod. Interactive curriculum is the next wave” of opportunities in the education market, says Tim Brady, a partner at Y Combinator, in an interview with EdSurge.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social studies is poised for a comeback in U.S. While ELA and math priorities have long enjoyed top billing on many district agendas, the importance of investing more in social studies instruction is now coming to the forefront, especially in an era when students are having to decode increasingly complex political and social issues.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Howard Street Charter School in Salem, Oregon, is a project-based institution that pushes students to achieve excellence in all areas of study. Our highest passing rate ever in the history of the school was fifty-two percent before Covid. We are witnessing history, and this is just the beginning. The sky’s the limit.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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History Social Studies Education Knowledge 217

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. 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.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

I feel like the whole time I was studying, I kind of had that in the back of my mind. So I feel like that kind of injected a bit of worry into my mind at all times studying in the pandemic. You know, I had been studying really hard. And so there was that, but for me personally, it was definitely a gut punch.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

To get there, the company is also exploring opportunities to acquire other businesses for the first time in its history. “We We are a technology-focused company, so things that are of interest will have some footprint in machine learning and artificial intelligence,” adds Glotzbach.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

For today’s readers, studying literature takes place in the context of a complex world filled with the noise of social and short-form media. Through grade-appropriate, at-level content, strategic design and an accessible experience, high school students and educators are better set up to succeed with their literature courses.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. I fixated on the missed opportunity to honor the Indigenous histories and peoples of North America.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2022

As a history teacher, I made it a priority to teach my students how to check the reliability of sources. ” A typical year in the class began with learning how to source information using the Reading Like a Historian lessons from the Stanford History Education Group. So how does a teacher navigate these conversations?

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History Students Critical Thinking Evaluation 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Proponents of this approach say that it’s important to temper the potential power of AI by rooting it in morality, history and sociology. Embedding the study of artificial intelligence within the liberal arts will hopefully lead to it being used in “ethical ways that don’t reproduce existing social ills,” McFadden says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Real-time technology like Epic Games' Unreal Engine has emerged as a successful tool and resource to implement this type of teaching and learning. We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am by no means a game designer.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2019

realized how enthusiastic her social studies students were about the civil rights movement, she decided to help them explore the rich history of their own city through project-based learning. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about how education technology can even the playing field for students. Fri, 06/21/2019 - 14:43.

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Social Studies History Middle School Middle School 166

Edsurge

MAY 19, 2021

But because of its radical, unique power to transform our society, public education is extremely prone to political influence and interference, something that I, as a former history teacher, know all too well. These arguments are based on a fear of seeing public education become more inclusive.

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Education History Social Studies Critical Thinking 189

Edsurge

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. Other industries have experienced similar histories as new technologies rolled in.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

While traditional field trips continue to offer opportunities to create memorable learning environments for students of all ages, a new wave of technologies have created new, virtual field trip (VFT) experiences. Personally, I believe the most exciting virtual field trips are event-based.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

From desktop printers to professional online services using high-grade printers, 3D technology is becoming a valuable creative tool in many courses of study beyond 3D computer design. Some of the most promising uses for 3D printing in education include: Math . Yet 3D printers are a natural choice for instruction in STEM courses.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2021

I recently retired from public school teaching after thirty-six years as both a US History teacher and TOSA. I dedicated much of my career to finding the appropriate role of technology in the classroom. Although the pedagogy of utilizing technology was not readily available in the early 1990s for educators, it is ever-present today.

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