eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

YES draws on more than three decades of research and development by the Museum’s PreK-12 education division, under the leadership of founding director Dr. Christine Cunningham, senior vice president of STEM Learning at the Museum of Science. Each unit challenges students to address a significant real-world problem.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. Witnessing a classroom buzzing with excitement and brimming with knowledge was an educator's dream come true.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This encourages them to synthesize their knowledge, form their own interpretations, and express their perspective on the matter. Science Experiments: Students make a claim about the outcome of a science experiment, present data as evidence, and ask questions about variables that might have affected the results.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Consider how their thoughts have changed, evolved, or expanded as they’ve gained more knowledge or insights. In the “Now I think…,” they articulate their current or updated perspectives on the same topic or issue. It could be due to new evidence, experiences, conversations, or further exploration of the topic.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2025

This evolution has revised, if not totally disrupted, the playing field, positioning all of us as digital immigrants navigating to a new rapidly changing landscape of capabilities and ethical complexities. By doing so, we can demystify complex systems and empower individuals to use them effectively and ethically.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

On the other hand, the emerging field of data science, defined as a synthesis of statistics, mathematics and computer science, promises to provide students with powerful problem-solving strategies they will use in the workplace and their daily lives. But there has long been a missing piece: a lack of standards for data science.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

It sounds like a science fiction statement, but it’s actually not too far from reality. They need to face the importance of ethics and cyber security to protect their information and secure their identities. In this Ted Talk , Doudna discusses this process and asks whether we should pause and visit the ethics of her research.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2019

PLTW creates an engaging, hands-on classroom environment and empowers students to develop in-demand knowledge and skills they need to thrive. Form a student perspective, it’s not just learning math for the sake of it but understanding the relevance of math and science in an applied way. eSN: What about computer science?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Free for all educators and school districts, the one-hour, eight-lesson course provides educators with essential knowledge about AI and approaches for ensuring student safety and privacy. “With this course, we are taking a proactive approach to support and educate teachers on the front lines and prepare for this transformation.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Key points: Inspiring young women in STEM programs requires cultivating a culture of community Black students need more STEM career exposure Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades For more news on STEM education, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Generating truly new ideas (instead of just remixing old ones) AI is great at rearranging existing knowledge, but it doesnt create truly original ideas. Retaining knowledge like a human learner AI experiences catastrophic forgetting, meaning that as it learns new information, it forgets previously learned data unless explicitly retrained.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

This allows educators to gain insights from students interactions with these technologies, fostering a deeper understanding of their applications and promoting ethical use. AI is so new that the landscape of our knowledge is changing constantly. Their reflections revealed several critical themes.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

When I first became principal, I was compelled to explore all aspects of what it meant to be a 21 st -century learner in an international baccalaureate context: as a global citizen, as a collaborative co-creator of knowledge, as a caring human being. She ended up doing an art installation and website on the theme “Rightfully Ours.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A high school teacher in Committee member Kathleen Stephany (School District of Holmen, Wisconsin)s district is piloting a new course called Data Science, which will have a math component, content knowledge, and communication. The role of vendors when it comes to ethics and transparency in educational technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Like other CodeHS offerings, the year-long cybersecurity course is designed for schools without robust computer science departments and expert faculty. Students should have at least a semester’s worth of programming knowledge, according to the company. Yet they are also the most at risk, according to Cloutier. “I

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Many of them struggle to hire and retain people who have the technical knowledge and experience to teach in these fields. If it’s the second, then most small liberal arts colleges are well-equipped to train students about the social and ethical challenges that artificial intelligence presents.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It’s important that kids leave our classrooms with real-world knowledge and industry-standard software and technical experience under their belt. Blizman-Schmitt: My coworkers Matt Reardon, Regina Lee and I were talking, and we wanted to define more clearly the two paths that we teach between business education and computer science.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Learners can more effectively assimilate and interrogate new concepts by connecting new information to prior knowledge, extending ideas beyond initial comprehension, and pinpointing areas of challenge or uncertainty. This thinking routine strengthens the links between prior knowledge and new learning, paving the way for deeper learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

All it asks for is the topic, reading level, and any additional criteria teachers might have for their class, like an enhanced focus on accessibility or detailed deep dives into ethical implications. By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject. They also were required to pass a test on national and state civil rights laws and professional ethics, as well as a rigorous state test required for the grade-level and subject-matter area.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. Schoeder, 2024). Saucier, Ph.D.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. Identifying Student Knowledge States What we wanted to know was, for any given student in a class at any point during a semester, what material have they mastered and what are they struggling with? So how does one identify a student’s knowledge state?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. There is a clear need for science-driven curriculum, and the thoughtful implementation of emerging technologies. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. You’ll study topics like community relations, ethics, meeting the needs of diverse learners, budgeting, research, and more.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

AP Computer Science is getting a facelift—or rather, an entirely new face. The College Board has announced that this fall it will launch a new Advanced Placement course in computer science: AP Computer Science Principles , a program that the organization hopes will engage more females and students of color in computer science.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

More companies in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—fields are hiring workers with liberal arts backgrounds, according to a recent report. It’s so important that we have people who are thinking about the ethical implications of the technology we’re building today.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The skills and practices necessary to engage with AI are relevant to all disciplines.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2023

There is an art and science into offering valuable insights and taking the time to share reflections and revel in real-world experiences. My takeaway: Mentoring is a careful art and science—as it takes valuable time to create trust and rigor. That is, they have more than just qualities. How do I know this as a learner?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2023

There is an art and science into offering valuable insights and taking the time to share reflections and revel in real-world experiences. My takeaway: Mentoring is a careful art and science—as it takes valuable time to create trust and rigor. That is, they have more than just qualities. How do I know this as a learner?

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Upon graduating from Harvard with a Masters degree in computer science, Hadi pursued a career in technology starting at Microsoft where he rose into the executive ranks. After immigrating to the United States, he spent his summers working as a software engineer to help pay his way through high school and college.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The convening received financial support from several Stanford programs, including the Cyber Initiative, the Digital Civil Society Lab, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, as well as the Spencer Foundation. The site launched Sept. Standard of care for data.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

These days, proponents of learning analytics are exploring how the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools bring new possibilities and raise new ethical questions for the practice. Its an approach known as learning analytics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. From pondering over simple natural processes such as the transitions between day and night to complex genomic studies , science has come a long way. This is where citizen science comes in.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This year, there were three prizes: for work in pre-K-12 education, higher education and a newly created prize, for learning science research. Sometimes the two agents can agree on information that is false and clashes with the knowledge of the learner. They didn’t need or even want people with deep knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

It enhances cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, moral and ethical development, identity formation, communication skills, social awareness, and creativity. Fiction, essays, science. Religious literature explores religious issues, ethics, and morality. It can be different. Children’s literature, memoir, poetry.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Jackie’s experience demonstrates how essential it remains to support STEM education designed for women, particularly in engineering and computer science, which remain disproportionately dominated by men. Regardless, we’ve met great success, with more than 40 percent of SMA graduates intending to pursue college majors in math or science.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

One reason boils down to a technicality: such research usually requires the approval of a college’s Institutional Review Board, or IRB, the office that makes sure any research involving human subjects follows legal and ethical guidelines. A new effort announced today hopes to ease that bureaucratic burden.

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