Educational Technologies, Laboratory and Reading

Why Schools Need a Social Worker for Teachers

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Unfortunately, I haven’t seen nearly as much investment or innovation on behalf of our educators. I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. A year ago, I came across an opportunity to change that.

Teachers

Teachers Laboratory Schools Questions

Teaching Students to Make Good Choices in an Algorithm-Driven World

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In contrast, AI centers, like the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, have largely focused on high-end, specialized training for graduate students in complex mathematical and computer engineering fields. The role of these institutions has been to broadly train undergraduates for living in a democratic society.

Teaching

Teaching Intelligence Ethics Art

The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute. The Voxy platform also tailors reading prompts to an individual’s interests. Achievement is not comparable.” government.

Motivation

Motivation Languages Language Learning

Going Back to (Brooklyn LAB) School With the White House and Department of Education

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Their goal: to celebrate the progress in making technology more accessible in our nation’s schools over the last several years through the efforts of the ConnectED and Future Ready Schools initiatives. Teachers transitioned seamlessly from leading discussions to using technology tools. Photo Credit: Ethan Covey Tech and Teachers.

Laboratory

Laboratory Education Schools Grades

Can You Provide a Quality Preschool Education Over Zoom?

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Later there might be a story read aloud or a group activity mixing paints to make new colors before Jones dives into another round of one-on-ones. But the constraints of the pandemic present a new set of considerations—namely the safety of educators and families, some of whom are not yet ready to consider in-person schooling.

Education

Education Laboratory Activities Language

Should Schools Teach the Scientific Method? New Book Says Maybe Not

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. Rudolph : I wrote an earlier book on the science education reform during the cold war, after Sputnik. They said, students should work in laboratories and do science to learn science. That was the beginning of the laboratory method.

Teaching

Teaching Laboratory Science Schools

43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the upcoming school year, we can expect more educators and counselors to focus on aligning their students’ educational experiences with the demands of the job market so that they are better prepared to pursue college and/or career pathways that will empower them to succeed.

Schools

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation

What a Reinvented College Looks Like: 4 Alternative Higher-Ed Models

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Further reading: Three Years In, Minerva’s Founder On For-Profits, Selectivity, and His Critics Mission U Elevator pitch: A one-year program designed to help students land high-tech careers (and serve as a substitute for going to a four-year college) without traditional student debt (relying on an income-share agreement instead of tuition).

Laboratory

Laboratory Lecturing Art Curriculum

Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In fact, there have been bigger attempts to build central libraries of them in the past, such as a 2001 project by the the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching called the Knowledge Media Laboratory (which is now defunct). A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world.

Teaching Portfolio

Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review

The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! The most important thing we do in social studies education is prepare citizens to live in a diverse democracy. Inquiry is a way to construct democratic laboratory experiences where students can practice living in a deliberative, diverse democracy.

Social Studies

Social Studies Study Learning Laboratory

New Bill Could Bring CS Programs to 500K JROTC Students—and Diversify the Future Workforce

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

Read the full text of the legislation. This includes instructor training, program quality improvement, internships for students, extra-curricular programs, and evaluation. Excerpted from H.R. 3266: (c) ACTIVITIES.—Activities

Instructors

Instructors Laboratory Science STEM

Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. I've always been fascinated by, ‘What could we learn potentially from technology?’ And I've always read a lot of science fiction books about maybe that could start pushing the frontiers of and even helping us understand what is intelligence and what is consciousness.

Intelligence

Intelligence Teaching Assistants Laboratory Assignments

How a Science Research Program Taught Students to Pursue Futures Fueled by Passion

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

My 15-year-old students had the confidence to email and call some of the top scientists in the country to ask questions about what they had read and seek advice for their own experiments It was an ambitious and daunting task. How could all of this fit in to a student’s scheduled day? I decided we would use the before-school zero period.

Science

Science Laboratory Counselling Students

How Brooklyn LAB Charter School is Integrating Non Academic Habits into the Classroom

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

At Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (LAB), the school’s co-founders, Erin Mote and Eric Tucker, are constantly on a quest to innovate and welcome the opportunity to iterate as they grow. This kind of shift requires thoughtfulness every step of the way, courage despite discomfort, and collaboration from the entire school community.

Schools

Schools Laboratory Language Languages

To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

She is an engineer who holds a doctorate in speech-recognition technology, and has spent the past two decades researching this field at Columbia University, IBM and Bell Laboratories. The plan is to test another 1,000 students in 2020, and another 600 the following year.

Laboratory

Laboratory Multiple Choice Questions English Testing

‘Marvel-ous Makers’ Bring Black Panther-Inspired Creations to the Classroom

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Listen to the podcast or read highlights from the conversation below (which have been edited and condensed for clarity). And that is a key concept of STEM—finding a problem and developing a solution for that, and it doesn't have to be in the laboratory. They just thought it was like a very talented sculptor or an artist.

STEM

STEM History Culture Laboratory

A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

And so began close to 40 years of research and innovation tying together computer technology with ideas about the development of intelligence, knowledge, and learning to learn. In the early ‘60s, Seymour came to MIT and co-founded with Marvin Minsky its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Knowledge

Knowledge Curriculum Design Intelligence Math

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Technology Laboratory Schools Study

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Technology Laboratory Schools Study

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Technology Laboratory Schools Study

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Technology Laboratory Schools Study

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Technology Laboratory Schools Study

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Technology Laboratory Schools Study

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Technology Laboratory Schools Study

How to Build a Better, More Equitable Job Hunting Platform

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In a laboratory setting, there’s no incentive to give the wrong answer. If you wrote these things on your own (traditional) resume, people wouldn’t even read it, right? By the nature of how the tests are built, it would take hours and hours or sometimes days—hundreds or thousands of questions—to get enough data. Have you ever stolen?’

Evaluation

Evaluation Testing Culture Laboratory

People Are Hunting for Education ‘Fads.’ What Does That Say About Schools?

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. In the wake of the shift, a prominent curriculum group dissolved and the educational publisher Heinemann reportedly experienced sagging curriculum sales.

Laboratory

Laboratory Education Schools History

How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

Education

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors

How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is no different than having laboratory studies that suggest a particular treatment might cure cancer, only to find out that it doesn't work as well when you try to use that in patients. So it's the hard work of applying research.

Teaching

Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing

How Childhood Has Changed (and How That Impacts Education)

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

It’s not because you made them read a book or listen to a tape recording. In other words, it’s the active learning experiences that mean the most to students—not the lectures that they sat through or even the seminars that they sat through or even the books that they read independently. We’re creating virtual laboratories.

History

History Education Lecturing Exams

Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Each time someone caught the ball, he or she read aloud the SDG that landed face up, then reflected for a moment about what that global goal might mean locally, or personally. To explain this idea to the more than 100 people gathered in the hotel ballroom, students from Coolidge tossed around a colorful soccer ball.

High School

High School High School Schools Assignments

New for This Year’s Back-to-School Shopping List: Face Masks

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

At the Model Laboratory School in Richmond, Ky., The 2020-21 school supply list for third graders at Kentucky's Model Laboratory School. Model Laboratory School) Asked about pushback surrounding the new mask policy, Williamson says that, surprisingly, he has received none. 24, says Model superintendent John Williamson.

Laboratory

Laboratory Schools Elementary School Elementary School

Andrew Ng Is Probably Teaching More Students Than Anyone Else on the Planet. (Without a University Involved.)

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Ng is seen as one of the leading figures in artificial intelligence, having founded and directed the Google Brain project and served as the chief scientist at the Chinese search giant Baidu, as well as having directed the artificial intelligence laboratory at Stanford University. After all, the Deeplearning.ai

Teaching

Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence

Teaching Vanguard

Why Schools Need a Social Worker for Teachers

Teaching Students to Make Good Choices in an Algorithm-Driven World

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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

Going Back to (Brooklyn LAB) School With the White House and Department of Education

Can You Provide a Quality Preschool Education Over Zoom?

Should Schools Teach the Scientific Method? New Book Says Maybe Not

43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year

What a Reinvented College Looks Like: 4 Alternative Higher-Ed Models

Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

New Bill Could Bring CS Programs to 500K JROTC Students—and Diversify the Future Workforce

Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

How a Science Research Program Taught Students to Pursue Futures Fueled by Passion

How Brooklyn LAB Charter School is Integrating Non Academic Habits into the Classroom

To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

‘Marvel-ous Makers’ Bring Black Panther-Inspired Creations to the Classroom

A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

How K–12 Schools Can Use Technology to Combat Absenteeism

How to Build a Better, More Equitable Job Hunting Platform

People Are Hunting for Education ‘Fads.’ What Does That Say About Schools?

How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

How Teaching Using Mindfulness or Growth Mindset Can Backfire

How Childhood Has Changed (and How That Impacts Education)

Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

New for This Year’s Back-to-School Shopping List: Face Masks

Andrew Ng Is Probably Teaching More Students Than Anyone Else on the Planet. (Without a University Involved.)

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