Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Emerging school models are supposed to ease the transition to personalized and blended instruction—or at least make it possible. But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdSurge connected with Caulfield to talk about his strategies for managing today’s flood of information — and how new AI tools will impact efforts by educators to teach information literacy. If there's one thing we want to teach students, it's how to better choose what to invest their attention and time in.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In my own work with educators around the globe, I’ve watched the emergence of 21st century trends such as makerspaces, flipped learning, genius hour, gamification, and more. See the resource list below for more suggested readings and teaching tools.) Heather Wolpert-Gawron offers a good role-model. Building School 2.0:

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

And they are especially present when we build or implement technology to support teaching and learning. But how aware are educators of the assumptions behind edtech tools? Too often, school leaders focus on finding the right instructional model and assume that the technology will fit.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. I was teaching this online class, there were hundreds of students taking it, there were thousands of questions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2016

That’s what professor Jerry Wind asked the audience at the the Reimagine Education conference this week, and he guessed that most envisioned a professor at the front of a group of students gathered in rows. The mental model of the traditional classroom is obsolete,” he told the crowd of college technology leaders. “It

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