Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

When Alexis Hancock signed her child up for child care, she wasn’t expecting to have to download an app to participate. When that app began to send her photos of her child, she had some additional questions. Across the country, more and more child care programs are signing up to use administrative technology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking. Monster Quiz and Team Quiz : Game-based activities that foster collaboration and competition as students work in teams to answer questions on their devices.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot. The human subjects, meanwhile, were told that a chatbot would be doing the online interview rather than a person, and they were identified to participate using a system called Prolific, which is commonly used by researchers to find survey participants.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2. Mute participants upon entry (otherwise there will be a lot of background noise). Use Chat One advantage of online, live teaching versus teaching in a classroom is that any student can ask a question in the text chat at any time without “interrupting” the lecturer.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s gratifying to see improvements in student proficiency and attendance as well as increasing parent participation in the Gadsden Independent School District (ISD),” said Courtney Lewis, Vice President of Tutoring Services at Carnegie Learning. The results are impressive. About Carnegie Learning, Inc.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Ask that question to a group of adults, and many are likely to tell you that the finding checks out. The research aimed to test and improve participants’ ability to identify the following common fallacies, which can lead people to draw inaccurate conclusions from information and data: random chance. Is that claim accurate, or faulty?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. So naturally, one of the big questions we face is, how can we help ensure effective edtech happens more often?

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

To break the ice, we started with questions related to their favorite aspects of basketball and what the sport meant to them, fostering a sense of camaraderie and trust within the group. Questions related to confidence and self-esteem were posed, with varying difficulty levels. How did you overcome it?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

December will mark the end of the 12-week program, and students will present beta versions of their app at a conference for participants. Students are introduced to data-science terms and asked to answer questions based on the map, which Wong calls “knowledge checks.” Students built the app using R, an open source programming language.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Details for the program: The CTO Academy For K-12 Early Career and Aspiring CTOs is a program to address the needs of education technology leaders who are new (less than four full years) to their CTO or Technology Leadership position or aspiring CTOs and EdTech leaders currently working in a technology department.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

And with this change comes a host of new questions—concerns about the ethical design and implementation of these new tools. In K-12 education, a focus on ethical considerations is of critical importance. Students, as consumers and users of AI tools themselves, need a foundational education on what AI is and how it works.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? How Harmless?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

During tricky situations in the new PBS KIDS show “Elinor Wonders Why,” a curious rabbit directs a question to viewers, pausing to give them a chance to answer. Coviewing—parents sitting with kids and watching and asking questions while they watch—can have a positive impact on skill development. A child reading with the agent partner.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Too many people are unfamiliar with these amazing free resources, which include approachable guides for educators and families. They even have a phone number for questions, and—lo and behold—real live humans answer it! Andy Wallace, director of technology, South Portland (ME) Schools. Develop a multi-faceted approach. “At

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2021

You likely had a stronger reaction to the second question. Emerging technologies like synthetic biology are all around us and at varying degrees of development and dissemination. The real question is: How do we increase access and participation in the creation of emerging technology so that it represents and works for all of us?

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

There's one fundamental question that I ask myself, and it's always, “How do I create a content lesson so that it is engaging for all learners?” EdSurge: How do you bring the principles of UDL into your classroom—with or without the help of technology? Because we know, as educators, one size does not fit all.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For many faculty, that last question is causing the most friction around campuses. For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2023

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. Young people from organizations across the city came together to learn about community organizing, build community and develop a city-wide education justice campaign. Over 25 educators showed up and listened to these powerful stories.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

This helps our teachers strengthen their practices and participate in ongoing, reflective coaching at their own pace. Camhi, Superintendent of Schools, Baldwin School District As someone who has been in education long enough to be considered vintage and to see major pedagogical shifts, I always wonder when the next big change will come.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2021

In his 2012 book “ When Can You Trust the Experts ,” Dan Willingham’s main objective is to help everyday teachers (and administrators and family members) determine which new educational approaches are well-supported by research, and thus worthy of your time and money. But the onus does not rest solely on educators.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2021

and Motimate to its portfolio—will unite two giants in education technology. billion players participating in nearly 280 million games on its platform in the last 12 months alone. education market will balloon tremendously. The acquisition—Kahoot’s fifth in under a year , after adding Drops, Actimo, Whiteboard.fi

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2025

Classifying charter schools as private would have opened questions about whether that could continue across the states, he said. In most states, charter schools rely on the same funding mechanisms as public schools, said Eric Paisner, COO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, on a call before the decision.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Even the quietest students participated. Working in a separate room, Nesler’s co-teacher couldn’t see students' responses to assessments and questions on Pear Deck’s teacher dashboard. We can see that we do have students engaging and participating. But with the Pear Deck question, everybody was engaged and typing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2024

The unusual idea seems in some ways like a publicity stunt to call attention to a the academic major it offers in artificial intelligence — and local TV news stations pounced on the notion that nonhuman classmates would be participating side-by-side in hybrid college classes with T-shirt-clad young people.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Do you remember what participation felt like? Did you have to raise your hand to answer questions? The teacher pauses to ask a question and I feel butterflies in my stomach immediately. My friend raises her hand and answers the question. See a lightly edited version of the transcript here, published with her permission.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

After asking her a few more questions about the conversation, she added, “I didn’t necessarily want special treatment or changes to his workload. Asking questions and refraining from providing one’s own perspective is a difficult but necessary component of deeper listening. I just wanted her to understand what my son is going through.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This is especially true in the case of instructional simulations, which by their nature cannot be passive and compel students to help anticipate outcomes, formulate probing questions and understand precisely what is being taught in detail. The Last Word.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2022

That’s thanks in large part to Gibson’s participation as a coaching fellow at the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators. Principles like these have implications for the instructional choices educators make, and for Gibson it was no different.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

With summer and fall planning top of mind for educators across the country, one stubborn challenge is students’ online attendance and engagement—or, precisely, the lack of it. In many schools and districts, half or less of their students participate in remote learning. With students largely running the show, what was there left to do?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The parent may ask a few questions. The parent is a passive participant, just sitting there listening and learning about their child, as if they were not there from birth or during last night’s tantrum or for all the hand-holding in-between. It is brief. It allows them to share, reflect and take ownership of their learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

The perpetrator later took control of the audio, and Ishmael, a senior policy manager of education policy at New America, recalls a male voice spewing misogynistic epithets. What she and about 100 other participants experienced now has a name: “Zoombombing.” Protect yourself and others from getting Zoombombed.

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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. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. Achievement is not comparable.” government.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. A recent Titan Partners survey found that students are eager to participate in on-campus courses with digitally embedded exercises.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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