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Lights, camera, literacy: Student-created book reviews inspire a global reading culture

eSchool News

When teens take the mic Recent studies show that reading for pleasure among teens is at an all-time low. students read for fun almost every day–down from 31 percent in 1984. In the UK, the National Literacy Trust reports that just 28 percent of children aged 8 to 18 said they enjoyed reading in their free time in 2023.

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Is AI Taking Over or Joining in?

k12 Digest

Passionate about global citizenship and inclusive education, Joshua integrates innovative strategies to enhance engagement and learning behaviour. It isn’t valuing the working out, or the process, or the reading and referencing. Maybe we are asking the wrong questions? I’ll return to the ‘doing, not thinking’ angle though.

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The Two Minds Of An Educator

Teach Thought

Views Facebook Linkedin Print All Educators Have Two Minds by Terry Heick In his essay Two Minds , Wendell Berry, unsurprisingly enough, offers up two tones of thought produced by two kinds of ‘mind’—Rational, and Sympathetic. Reading level from the love of reading. Preemptively, strategically, and analytically.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

Edsurge

Before we usher in the 2025-2026 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellows, we want to reflect on the important themes our recent cohort of fellows wrote about in their personal essays. Learn to ride the wave. She said, You have anxiety. Just accept it. This narrow role was exhausting and disingenuous.

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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes.

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My Journey in Alternative Grading: From Curiosity to Clarity

Faculty Focus

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. As a first-year graduate student, I had read Susan Blums Ungrading and was immediately smitten. Blum (2020) argues that grades provide minimal feedback, they deemphasize learning, and what they actually measure is inconsistent (10-14).

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Plan Ahead: How to Set Yourself Up for Success Toward a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ask a Tech Teacher

Read on… Plan Ahe ad: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering Regardless of where you are in your life or at what stage, if you have a dream that you want to achieve, you can start working toward that immediately. With median U.S. So, without further ado, it’s time to jump into this topic.