eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Graham Glass, CEO & Founder, CYPHER Learning Finding new and innovative ways to support teachers will continue to be a priority for schools and districts this coming year and beyond.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

Since then, our game-based learning platform has been used to teach over 20 million students real-typed Python, JavaScript and C++ coding languages through the power of play. Learning the language of code is not unlike learning any other language. The CodeCombat AI League is the first of its kind.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities. Moby.Read is fully integrated with myView Literacy, the highly successful blended print and digital, interactive K-5 English language arts solution by Savvas.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. These intelligent tools can adapt pacing based on the student’s ability … and provide targeted, corrective feedback in case the student makes mistakes, so that the student can learn from them,” states an eSchool News report released earlier this year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Jill Hill “It was just a great chance to learn more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how to encourage K-12 teachers to use more AI tools in their classrooms,” said Hill, the technology integration specialist at her middle school. EdSurge: How has your experience with AI Explorations impacted your practice?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Ensure you are leveraging peer-to-peer relationships and recognizing that programming can be for different types of learners and different types of intelligences. “I can barely fix a printer. We've highlighted some of the most common ones, as well as tips to get past them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

My family immigrated to the United States from Guadalajara, Mexico when I was 11 years old, and my memories of schooling in America are colored by episodes of anxiety and shame. Today, I teach at an elementary school where more than 65 percent of the students identify as Hispanic / Latino. I have always been enough.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Elementary School Students Do a chore without being reminded. Help a teacher after school. Learn to say “Hello” and “Thank you” in a new language (that someone speaks at your school). Offer to help your teacher during lunch or after school. High School Students Be on time for school.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Rayna Freedman is a 5th-grade teacher at Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, Mass. This past school year, she started piloting a Google Home in her classroom. For its part, Google tells EdSurge that the company is currently focused on making the Google Home “experience exceptional in the home.” That wasn’t happening.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2016

Besides, we want our children to communicate with digital effectiveness in elementary school! PreKeys is based on Piaget’s Developmental Stages , Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory , and social learning research. Pattern recognition has a high correlation with intelligence.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Constructionism,” a term Seymour coined in the mid-’80s in connection with the academic work on LOGO, (the children’s computer programming language) and the education movement it spawned, became the basis for our work together at the MIT Media Lab (described in a book we published in 1991). Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence are the most-in-demand skills today, according to LinkedIn’s 2020 employer survey. We increasingly need creative, agile, collaborative minds. This is exactly what employers are telling us, too. The state of New Hampshire recently adopted a play-based kindergarten.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

We have a pullout Gifted and Talented program at the elementary school level. Students were presented with the article at their level and it allowed the basic skills students to hold an intelligent conversation and generate their own questions about the text. Michael Ballone How do you bring equity and energy into the classroom?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Q Wunder provides a complete elementary school SEL curriculum with 15 social-emotional learning topics rolled out in 48 CASEL-aligned lesson plans, all powered with engaging music, videos, games, and activities. Teachers receive insight into student social connectedness and school leaders receive actionable school wellness data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). These findings have changed the way most experts in the field of psychology and neuroscience think about intelligence itself.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

I predict two issues will take center stage- artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity. Graham Glass, CEO & Founder, CYPHER Learning Finding new and innovative ways to support teachers will continue to be a priority for schools and districts this coming year and beyond.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Q Wunder provides a complete elementary school SEL curriculum with 15 social-emotional learning topics rolled out in 48 CASEL-aligned lesson plans, all powered with engaging music, videos, games, and activities. Teachers receive insight into student social connectedness and school leaders receive actionable school wellness data.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We also received questions on various subject-specific curricula, with English language arts (at both the elementary and secondary levels) being the most popular. Secondary-level English language arts: 7.5% Other (e.g., PE, science): 7.5%

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

In addition to educational performance, school districts should also be looking at student feedback, surveys, classroom behavior, and social skills. For example, a school with a high number of English as an additional language (EAL) students might focus on targeted support for reading and language skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation. Becky Alexander is the principal at Morris Elementary School in Morris, Oklahoma. She has inspired change at the school by leading its faculty and staff to embrace technology and enrich their strategy toward 21st century learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2020

He started his career as an elementary school teacher. Then he became a high school guidance counselor and dean of students. After that, he founded his own public middle school in the Bronx and served as its principal for 10 years. Social and emotional intelligence is just as important as cognitive intelligence.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. What we know is that these jobs will heavily involve coding, artificial intelligence and iterating on user experiences.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

She has had plenty of opportunities since then, including as a researcher who spent years sitting in on classes and interviewing students and teachers who were part of a dual language program in the Midwest. It was structured in what some might consider the optimal way to teach language. and that is the dominant language.

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