Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. Yet despite my success using reenactments and roleplaying, students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Seventeen characters with diverse backgrounds help students practice speaking skills by engaging with content in academic subjects such as math, science, social studies, and general knowledge. For more information, visit lexialearning.com.

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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 taught the same topic to high school students in my women’s studies class 20 years later. The short answer: it starts with us.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

From phonological awareness and the alphabetic principle to background knowledge and vocabulary, each component is integral to a reader’s ability to comprehend text. Word recognition includes instant and effortless identification of familiar words, as well as phonics knowledge that connects letter names and sounds.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

In the classroom, AR technology can enhance learning by providing students with interactive and immersive experiences, improving their understanding of complex concepts and enabling them to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. The use of AR can make learning more accessible while increasing the engagement of all students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Learning begins from a position of strength by capitalizing on existing knowledge. I opted to remain at my school—where our enrollment of English learners, immigrants and refugees continues to hover at one-fourth of the total enrollment—to teach students in 9-12 grade social studies.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

While it got its start as a way to help computer scientists think more logically about data analysis, lately it’s been catching on with instructors in a diverse number of subjects—from science to math to social studies. asks Tom Hammond, an associate professor for the teacher education program at Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2021

Speaking Truth to Power The tension in the debate on public education is between those who would like to transform it to be more inclusive and those who seek to retain the traditional model that upholds a myopic, hierarchical vision of society. My vision of public education is different. Education is different from schooling.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The plan was to provide training and support for the Vanguard Team members and, in turn, have them spread knowledge to their peers. This passion paid off, and Van Looy worked her way up through the ranks, first as an Instructional Technology Program Specialist and now as the Director of Instructional Technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. But students have lots of math knowledge, Meyer argues, since even those who are behind in class will understand patterns in the world and have some informal language to describe complex phenomena.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI. We’ve seen social studies teachers include personal finance in their civics curriculum and math teachers use digital courses to teach topics like unit cost.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

He also served as superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, where he focused on expanding student access to technology and narrowed disparities in graduation rates. Carranza began his career as a high school social studies teacher and principal in Tucson, Arizona.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. We discuss how we can’t blindly trust AI; rather, we can use it as a baseline to build knowledge. What can we do about that?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

However, if we define personalization as deeply understanding each individual’s unique experience, passions, strengths and areas for growth and then tailoring learning experiences based on that knowledge, then it requires an approach that meets the needs of the whole child. math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art).

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

And it simply isn’t wise to incorporate technology with bad instructional habits: A screen should never take the place of a teacher or be used to babysit students. . It’s well-established that educational technology has a place in the lowest grades. Joe Marquez is a K–12 Education Strategist with CDW•G. If Not Now, When?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Finding the Elephants Since there was little to no Black representation in my classroom content during my adolescence, I took it upon myself to seek this knowledge out in college.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Armed with full knowledge of the issue, they dove into the research, recorded public service announcements and canvassed their community for advocates. Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education? Or even newer math ?)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Now, with AI, we're in the second phase, which isn't just about personalizing content but also about how students present their understanding and share their knowledge. The first phase really focused on getting the right content to the right student at the right time. Because a hallmark of creativity is uniqueness.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Initially, she resisted this change, feeling it was unnecessary and distracting. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When considering students as individuals and trying to identify the root causes of their perceived disengagement I find it useful to consider the variables of performance success—knowledge, skills, an environment conducive to learning and the motivation to learn. Missing just one of these variables can have a profound impact on engagement.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

In short, when it comes to foundational learning at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy or the lower levels of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge framework, students can review a lot of the materials on their own—provided they have access to good online resources.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2019

Social studies classes may use them to take students through a historical field trip, while science departments can immerse students in the solar system. The key is to anticipate challenges and keep an open communication channel with teachers because they use this technology every day. by Katelyn Sweeney.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Ensuring that every teacher has the knowledge and resources to provide a quality computing education is key. Yet even though almost all K-12 classrooms have computers or tablets, most teachers aren’t trained to leverage computing education for rigorous learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

One key component to the Learning Record is to measure how you develop along the Dimensions of Learning: confidence and independence, skills and strategies, knowledge and understanding, prior and emerging experience, reflection and creativity, imagination and originality.” Social Studies / Current Events.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

With 23 students working on 36 curricula, and seeking credits in English, social studies, science and electives, working on online courses and college credits, the program incorporates service-learning, project-based, inquiry-driven, problem-based, place-based, and culture-based learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Civilization by Sid Meier—More than 35 million units sold worldwide; kids apply social studies lessons. Last year, I conducted a major academic study with Vanderbilt University researchers to test the effectiveness of our approach compared to existing curricular tools. This is how knowledge progresses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge. Full size image here.

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History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 144

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

Educators ranked OER above commercial publishers in nine of the 10 “deeper learning dimensions” the survey asked about, including how well the curriculum helped students to understand key principles of the content, apply their knowledge to situations, communicate complex ideas, collaborate with others and evaluate multiple sources of information.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). Teachers want fair funding for all schools.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2016

Social Studies: Check out the many Wolfram Alpha education resources. Students use the computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha to find the shortest flight plan around the world, and study data on these cities along the route in this lesson plan.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The toolkit below is packed with practical resources full of new approaches and best practices to help educators at all grade levels prepare their classes for upcoming state tests. We believe that when test day rolls around, students’ scores should reflect their content knowledge—not their ability to decode the test itself.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Spending on education technology in the US now exceeds $13B. Studies show that information and computer-assisted learning boosts academic achievement, improves learner engagement and reduces teacher burden by shaving time off the day. Introduce technology in context. But not all edtech is equally effective.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

As a teacher, I can embed videos or add pictures of the Statue of Liberty or things about the Declaration of Independence to build background knowledge. English, social studies and science are our highest users. This blog shares more about best practices for literacy, such as metacognition and building content knowledge.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Though the lab in Cleveland is the first in the country with 5G, to Verizon officials’ knowledge, it is certainly not the last. Justina Nixon Saintil, Verizon’s director of corporate social responsibility, says her team has already identified 30 of the schools and plans to equip them with 5G by “mid-2020.”

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