k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. It should extend our ability to listen, relate, and empower learners to co-create knowledge within a community of care.

Interdisciplinary

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

Art

Faculty Focus

JULY 24, 2025

The increasing internationalization of higher education does not automatically lead to global knowledge and skill exchange in the classroom. Such a method enables international students to share their diverse expertise and breakdown assumptions about where and in whom relevant knowledge and information lies.

Ethics

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.

Ethics

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

Art

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Their mission is to ensure every student is “ AI ready ” — prepared to use emerging technologies, like generative AI, in an ethical and responsible manner in school, life and future work, regardless of where those careers take them. Learn more about GCPS’ AI and computer science initiatives , including their AI readiness framework.

Ethics

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.

Instructors

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

In the afternoon we will connect a number of blended learning and ‘science of learning’ strategies to this redesign work. In our Day 2 workshop, we will explore a multitude of instructional, productivity, and ethical considerations related to AI and teaching, and we will connect everything back to what we did in Day 1.

Ethics

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition. Amy Leman, professor in Human Development and Family Studies, helped navigate the IRB process providing insight and guidance.

Disabilities

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.”

Technology

eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2024

As K-12 students leverage this exciting tech, they must be taught how to use it ethically. Today’s students who become scientists and innovators will be dealing with topics such as accessibility, ethical AI usage, and the use of VR in the professional world.

Ethics

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

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. Those questions were posed in the thread by Collin Lynch, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. “A/B Lynch says.

Ethics

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.

Science

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

BEAVERTON, Oregon, August 17, 2022 — Vernier Software & Technology has changed its name to Vernier Science Education. We’ve always been more than a software and technology company—we’re a science education company with a deep commitment to being an authentic partner to educators.”. About Vernier Science Education.

Science

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.

Science

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.

Questions

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.

Ethics

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.

Ethics

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.

Science

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.

Technology

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?

STEM

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.”

Critical Thinking

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.

STEM

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.

Intelligence

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.

Teaching

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.

Ethics

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

Ethics

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.

Schools

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.

Metacognitive Skills

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.

Quizzes

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.

Teaching

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?

Teaching

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?

Gamification

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.

Science

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.

Achievement

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.”

Art

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.

Ethics