k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

Interdisciplinary

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Key learning outcomes from a Liberal Arts Curriculum include: A liberal arts curriculum fosters a comprehensive understanding of human cultures and the physical and natural world through diverse fields such as sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.

Art

Faculty Focus

JULY 24, 2025

Asset Recognition and Intercultural Exchange In both the USA and the UK, I have taught Master level courses in public health ethics. In these courses, I help the students to consider ethics applying theory and using evaluation tools to assess degrees of harm or benefit a given policy might cause. References Bhati, D. Barrett, D.

Ethics

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Key learning outcomes from a Liberal Arts Curriculum include: A liberal arts curriculum fosters a comprehensive understanding of human cultures and the physical and natural world through diverse fields such as sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.

Art

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. Inclusive language, representation, and proactive instructor support all contributed to students sense of belonging and trust.

Disabilities

Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

In many districts, the programs at risk are the same ones that support compliance with federal education laws: Title III-supported English language services, Special Education instruction, and after-school accommodations often written into IEPs. But this year, both pathways have come under intense pressure. Develop a contingency network.

Special Education

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

In science , students can design simple investigations, collect data, and consider variability and bias in their experiments. Coaching, co-teaching models, and collaborative inquiry teams can also build teacher capacity and create shared language around data use. They can explore questions like, What trends do we see in this data?

Ethics

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Should texting language be in the dictionary? Fun Debate Topics Persuasive Speaking Activity Middle School, High School By Lindsay Ann Learning Grades: 6th-9th Subjects: English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS SL.9-10.4, Is war more or less ethical with unmanned planes and drones? 8; CCRA.SL.4

High School

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

We are a diverse urban learning community, where our families speak 23 different languages. Upper-grade students do deep research into one literary, one science, and one social science topic of interest to them, and are challenged to come up with a connecting theme and evidence for the connection from each of the domains.

Technology

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

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April. The main findings?

Ethics

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

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Using I Used to Think…Now I Think… at the Elementary Level Science Experiment: After conducting a simple science experiment, the teacher could ask students to reflect on their initial hypotheses and compare them with the outcomes.

Ethics

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Educators can guide students to interrogate the reliability of AI outputs and discuss the ethical implications of biased algorithms. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1.

Ethics

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. By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019).

Science

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

CoderZ, an award-winning, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, is helping educators introduce computer science in elementary and early middle school with its new Code Farm coding and robotics course for grades four through six.

Grades

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Switching seamlessly between languages like many bilingual learners do AI-powered translation tools are improving, but they dont match the way multilingual individuals naturally switch between languages in real life. Bilingual students often engage in code-switching, blending languages based on context, audience, and emotion.

Intelligence

eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

It is powered by Adaptive Learn, its state-of-the-art AI system that understands, adapts and responds to a child just as a teacher or reading coach would, using principles backed by the Science of Reading to create a fun and educational journey for children in grades K-3.

Reading

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We need common language and understanding around these terms. During the conversation, there was a need to define terms and shared language. With the advent of AI and small language models, were going to be more and more dependent on our own data internally, said Pete Just, CETL (Just Strategics, Indiana).

Schools

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Thanks to a $30 million gift from an alumnus, the small, selective college in Maine is establishing the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence , which aims to integrate machine learning, natural language processing and big data into instruction and research across the college. “We

Intelligence

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Keeshin’s company is perhaps best known for a series of introductory coding courses it offers on programming languages such as Javascript and Python. Like other CodeHS offerings, the year-long cybersecurity course is designed for schools without robust computer science departments and expert faculty.

Ethics

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, as the educational community navigates these innovations, it becomes essential to address ethical considerations to ensure the responsible and effective integration of AI. Parhizkar, a science and technology specialist at Alief Independent School District, discusses how AI can be used to personalize learning for students.

Student Engagement

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2021

The course on Ethics, Public Policy and Technological Change, which has been running for a couple of years in-person, is intended to get students thinking about tough issues in the ethics of technology. It’s co-taught by a computer science professor, Mehran Sahami, and two political-science professors, Reich and Jeremy Weinstein.

Ethics

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. Teachers can use the Magic Design tool to effortlessly create presentations using just natural language prompts.

Quizzes

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2025

Zarek Drozda, director of the nonprofit Data Science for Everyone, says his organization has seen interest in offering AI and data science coursework increase among school districts, with the number of states launching data initiatives increasing from one to 29 over the past four years. ChatGPT is trained on text data.

Intelligence

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

There’s a clue in a statement from the Davis Institute’s first director , natural language processing expert Amanda Stent. “AI 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 5, 2020

It’s not science fiction anymore; right now, in every single field of study, AI is being used. For example, in our Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom guides , we have a project that’s specifically for foreign language teachers. Or, “What does it mean to recognize emotions or to understand the context of language?”

Curriculum

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ” The New School, in New York City, is taking a different approach.

Art

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). Translating phrases into Spanish helped him connect new terms to his native language.

Essay

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As the Director of Quantitative Research and Data Science, as well as the Data Privacy Officer at Digital Promise, I aim to demystify the complex world of data privacy, particularly in the realm of education and AI tools. Allow Parents to Consent.

Ethics

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

This project was guided by Anni Kumar, a seasoned educator and head of the computer science department at Vikas Bharati Public School. This ensures that AI tools are not only effective but also responsible and ethical. Lastly, AI tools can have significant ethical implications.

Ethics

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. Now, though, large language models can easily mark discussion posts as on or off topic with a minimum amount of prompt engineering, Pardos says.

Learning

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

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.

Intelligence

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.” That was the case with Robert Dawson.

Art

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

Gamification

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