Edsurge

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. Weaving Subjects Together to Create More Meaning for Students Interdisciplinary connections allow students to explore topics through a variety of lenses.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Students learn best when they study real ballot initiatives during an election year or work with journalism professors to write their own editorials for the local paper. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For practitioners and scholars, edtech brought a new world of thinking about educational leadership, which has brought entrepreneurial leadership preparation into the isomorphic world of education leadership studies. Successful ELs focus on opportunity, creativity, alliances and a willingness to take risks.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The science of reading is a long-standing interdisciplinary body of knowledge that shows that to be proficient readers, kids need to be able to lift the words off the page—or decode—and then also need the language skills to understand them. How does Excite Reading support teachers in providing effective reading instruction?

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Access to works being studied supports equity initiatives and simplifies access for students who are searching for specific parts of the text for review or quoting. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Developments in Education Over the past 10 years, states across the nation have adopted new standards in all content areas. To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

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APRIL 6, 2017

The desire to build cognitive understanding is growing, but many experts assert that in order to do it, the study of AI has to become more interdisciplinary. His other daughter, a 10th grader, spends a lot of time studying the intersections of biology and AI. The democratization of AI is something Puri is passionate about.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2022

The loss of my unci , a lifelong educator, my namesake, and one of the most important teachers in my life, and in the lives of many others, has prompted me to think even more deeply about how important it is for Indigenous Knowledge Systems to be not only included, but honored and affirmed in classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The College Board, which administers the AP program as well as the SAT, wanted to offer a curriculum on the African diaspora so students and educators would have more opportunities to study, reflect on and connect with Black experiences, for the benefit of students and teachers of all races and backgrounds.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Social studies teachers also need more coaching and feedback to become effective service-learning facilitators. In an era where political polarization and public gaslighting make educators hesitant to approach controversial issues in their classrooms, these groups provide best practices and training.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. EdSurge: Technology is an integral part of all learning experiences now. Pant: The best learning happens when students are able to use technology as a method to enhance what they are already doing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

The #DLNchat community named a few: learning commons, makerspaces, research showcase experiences and space for interdisciplinary discovery among faculty. As more stacks move into the cloud, there are many options. Blake Gore went so far as to ask, “Does a library need to be a centralized physical space anymore?

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

Building a Space That Amplifies Innovation and Connection Lassonde Studios evolved out of a $25 million dollar gift from investor, philanthropist, and University of Utah alumnus Pierre Lassonde to spur entrepreneurship in a student-focused and interdisciplinary manner. “We Our students are not reading case studies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the last decade, schools have dedicated tremendous resources to deploying technology into the classroom. As they invested in hardware and software, they began employing educational technology specialists to incorporate technology that improves pedagogy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

In parallel, though, we also need to double down on “softening” schools—to focus on building social emotional skills of students and educators and strengthen relationships between students and educators. Several studies have shown that the effects of early interventions are long-lasting. The earlier SEL happens, the better.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

It can take anywhere from six years to a decade to complete your doctoral studies, and the bulk of that time is dedicated to the rite of passage known as the dissertation. Chemistry is partitioned off from physics even though they study many of the same phenomena at different levels.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

There are drawbacks to blanket bans on cell phones, which—believe it or not—can be used for productive, even educational purposes. But some studies suggest there’s a correlation between cell phone bans and better learning outcomes. Many students use popular apps like Quizlet for last-minute cramming before a test, for instance.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

The professor realized that there was little evidence available whether preregistration even makes much of a difference for young voters, so she and Holbein set out to study it. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying voter behavior. We most directly engage education and psychology.

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JULY 30, 2018

He is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the only university center in the U.S. dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and is the co-creator of the popular video series, Did You Know?

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MAY 5, 2023

Research indicates that Generation Z students are technologically savvy and appreciate interdisciplinary, project-based learning experiences. Jobs in the creative economy can lead to higher salaries and faster advancement, according to an Adobe-LinkedIn study. Creativity has a broad reach across the workforce.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

One young lady studied the history of fashion and presented her findings with a fashion show that brought the audience through the evolution of fashion from the prehistoric era to the classical time period. After spending a good amount of time talking about education and schools, it hit us: This was her research question for the project.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature? Math is this general-purpose subject at school, but if it isn’t interdisciplinary, well, why not? If you study English in school, it’s servicing all of those other subjects. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This includes developing competency in social-emotional learning, design thinking and computational thinking, whether or not students eventually study computing or engineering or enter the information technology industry. K-12 learning opportunities must prepare students with the necessary skills to succeed in Industry 4.0.

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JULY 7, 2022

It’s designed for students new to the University of Virginia—but not entirely new to higher education. They’re all adults enrolled in the university’s online Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program. So she made plans to study dance and singing at East Carolina University—far enough away from home, but not too far away.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Portland, Oregon —To get to Marty Ringle’s office at Reed College, you have to climb to the top floor of the Educational Technology Center building and get buzzed past a locked door that says “This is a Secure Area.” Before Ringle studied technology, he specialized in philosophy. And in some ways that’s not too far off.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

As part of their interdisciplinary research project, the Penn State professors will use a dataset of news stories that have been verified as either legitimate or fake. Studies are already showing that finding, flagging and categorizing barely makes a dent,” Zimdars says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The higher ed award honored Timothy Renick, Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. But now we’re in a knowledge revolution where the workforce needs to have a deeper set of skills and more interdisciplinary and collaborative problem solving. It’s a different world.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Executive education courses are typically offered through graduate business schools to provide non-credit training specifically to executives and managers. Executive education has struggled in the past to recruit and serve diverse groups of students. The executive education landscape faces other challenges as well.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions.

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APRIL 11, 2019

This year, a seventh grade English class designed games to highlight the theme in “The Giver” and a second grade class built gingerbread models of Chicago landmarks for an interdisciplinary math and social studies unit.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2018

And this year’s predictions range from the abstract, such as “advancing cultures of innovation,” to more specific ones like an increasing appearance of new interdisciplinary studies on campus. Open educational resources (OER) have been included as key trends since 2013, for example.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. PEEK INSIDE COLLEGE CLASSROOMS: Discover interdisciplinary teaching insights from our growing community of college educators. What Is Course Hero?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Construct a Hypothesis Through our school model, students experience hands-on interdisciplinary learning through projects, or expeditions, as we call them, that each last 10 to 12 weeks and require students to tackle real world problems that don’t have easy paths to solutions or one right answer.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

From circle time in kindergarten, to study groups in college, to team projects in the workforce, sociability has always greased the gears of learning.” The use of technology greatly enhances students’ power to learn on their own time, in their own space, and in much deeper ways than ever before.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

The Center provides spaces for innovative and interdisciplinary teaching and learning where students can learn in novel formats, develop and prototype new products and services through a design-thinking approach, and collaborate. Its new Academic Innovation Center (AIC) opened just this past fall.

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