Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As educational technology companies look to place learning science at the core of their products, there are three key steps to success: aligning their teams around education outcomes, building a feedback loop, and evaluating and validating your results.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. Author and educator Katie White, who’s something of an expert on the creative process, may have a practical solution. In other words, what needs to be in the finished product?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sessions, keynotes, discussions, and the expo hall will connect attendees with need-to-know details on the latest edtech innovations shaping the education landscape. Plus, they’ll learn best practices and current trends to best leverage educational technology resources. 23, 2024 in Orlando.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A researcher tested a new weight loss supplement. Perhaps education has been missing a key ingredient when it comes to teaching students to detect faulty reasoning: practice. Each group of study participants started the experiment by taking a pre-test and receiving training about critical thinking. lack of control.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

“When you think about that in an educational context, it … really opens up the opportunity to give more students the kinds of things that are better supporting their learning.” EdSurge: The app you developed helps teachers test out their learning materials to see if they’re effective. What’s new in your approach?

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. Peterson asks on the message board.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But what is this topic exactly and why is it important for moving education forward? During the November 2024 meeting of CoSNs EdTech Innovation Committee , participants were asked those same questions, and shared their perspectives on what educators should do about the topic. Read on for 10 key takeaways from the discussion.

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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. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Eighty-seven percent of educators believe this could be the top area for additional support to address learning losses. Those higher-performing students that teachers report being at grade level are driving test improvements while students at the lower end are falling further behind.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

In addition, by welcoming participants to come as they are , whether that be cameras on or off, stepping away as needed, we honored the reality that leaders are also caregivers, juggling roles and responsibilities. We also shared the end-of-session survey results and our reflections with participants. Recognize oppression.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities. First, outside-in.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Just look on popular Facebook groups and Reddit threads for tips on getting into selective colleges, and you’ll likely find posts recommending that students participate in intensive research or compete in science competitions as a way to stand out on college applications.

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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. Voxy recently earned a research-based design product certification from the education technology nonprofit Digital Promise. government.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Technology Will Revolutionize the Way We Teach One of the first computer-assisted instruction experiments occurred in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1969. Students sat at machines to take diagnostic tests, complete lessons and answer basic questions to earn a transistor radio. Technology is never going to be the magic solution to our problems.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Necessity begets ingenuity, and for many businesses no test of survival has been tougher than the current one wrought by a global pandemic. Duolingo Passes Its English Test Don’t worry, the pandemic hasn’t shuttered Duolingo’s popular gamified language learning app. to accept its test scores. Denny’s is selling groceries.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. But that hasn’t always been the case for me.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2025

In addition to threatening a loss of public funding, it also would have raised new questions about whether employees for these schools could participate in state pension and health care programs, and whether charter programs could access school buildings, he added. Drummond at the end of April, less than a month before issuing its decision.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Obstacles to English learners participating in STEM subjects and careers do not include lack of interest or ability, according to the report, “ English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools and Lives.” This population is large and fast-growing, representing 4.6 million students, or about 9.4

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Designed specifically for early learners, the skill combines the strengths of voice technology with research-based best practices on early childhood literacy and tangible play. Participating in the Challenge allowed them to get feedback that will help further develop their product.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As education, technology and nonprofit leaders, we must adopt successful strategies, prioritize and move forward. Fortunately, we’ve found that participation in robotics competitions can boost confidence. For us, that means building upon our flagship diversity initiative: Girl Powered. The program was a big success.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Each participant sat down at a desk while attendants helped them put on a heavy VR headset and strap a plastic sensor on each hand. The question put to the participants is, what’s wrong with the poor alien creature? Participants fly the pods with the joystick, but are directed to follow a set path marked by floating circles.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

For a lot of students who are not eager to take more purely academic courses — or about test-taking and writing papers — this is an enormous opportunity to get excited about higher education through fields of study not offered in high schools,” Wyner says. Four-year colleges are taking those credits,” McElroy says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Other interventions the researchers tested in the experiment also failed to deliver the results found in smaller trials. His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods. years, 3 institutions ( @harvard , @mit , @stanford ), 250 courses, over *250,000* participants.

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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 4, 2020

To Truman, the worksheets, which were meant to fill a bit of time in the morning, had become a form of timed testing, presenting him daily with a task he couldn’t complete. Friedrich Froebel, a pedagogue of modern education, coined the term “kindergarten” in 1840 after recognizing the importance of play in the development of young children.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Emerging technologies like synthetic biology are all around us and at varying degrees of development and dissemination. Their applications are being tested, products are being built, data is being collected. Some instances of scientists or technologists going too far or misusing technology reach the mainstream media and make headlines.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Test scores in reading and math reflect a pandemic-era decline, but progress in some academic disciplines can’t be so rigidly quantified. But then they turn the screen on and there's three of them together, participating and enjoying the class.” And unlike a math test or English project, sharing work from art classes is low stress.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The proposal, which leaders of the Dublin Unified School District began testing with a cohort of teachers last year, was pitched as a way to shift emphasis from winning points on tests and homework to student mastery of material — and to improve equity by better supporting students who might take a bit longer to learn.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So scientists around the country have been teaming up with band educators to try to test what is and isn’t safe when it comes to music education, and what kind of protective gear or PPE works. But there remain unanswered questions about whether instruments can spread COVID-19 particles through the air.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It was early May—and in New York, that’s the dreaded season of testing. There are plenty of tests—but follow me, for a moment, to P.S. 279 Captain Manuel Rivera, Jr., Neither students nor teachers at P.S. 279 love standardized tests. Even so, few students want to spend hours and hours on these tests.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Sixteen of our schools and approximately 5,000 students agreed to participate. Helping” students to answer test questions does not really help them at all. Overall, testing went very well, but we hit a little trouble especially with second grade remote testing.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, students might train a machine learning system to recognize patterns in math class or test a text-to-speech system to see if it can differentiate between homonyms in English Language Arts. We are developing these resources for educational leaders to define and operationalize AI for educators.

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