Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Less robust courses, scaling down the curriculum to just a semester or nine weeks, are also on tap, and a simplified version will be tailored especially for middle-school classrooms. All students will get a grounding in what the company calls “cyber hygiene,” or staying safe online, and in the ethical implications of hacking.

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Ethics Teaching Math Instructors 122

eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2022

Through this partnership, middle school through college-level educators can engage students in discovery-based science using Slooh’s Online Telescope and TransAstra’s breakthrough Sutter Telescope Technology. TransAstra’s ground-based telescopes, as well as its future space-based telescopes, will be added to Slooh’s network.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Through engineering challenges that have many viable solutions, learners are encouraged to value diverse approaches and reflect on the social, environmental, and ethical implications of their proposed designs.

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Science STEM Failure Ethics 264

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Such standards can prepare students as they move through middle school and high school and be complemented and deepened by a high school data science course, that some states and colleges now accept as an alternative to algebra 2. In most districts in the U.S., Establishing standards is only the first step, though.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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Assignments English Teachers Essay 198

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Crafted with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), this resource inspires the next generation of creative thinkers, risk takers and ethical problem-solvers. .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. 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.

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Teaching Teachers Schools Science 252

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2025

Their Pennsylvania school district, Haverford, consistently places among the top districts in our state. Their middle school benefits from stable funding, high-quality teachers, and a strong IT department, all leading to discussions about AI in their sixth grade classrooms. So I leave you with this.

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English Syllabus Ethics Students 147

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

When my principal asked if I would be interested in teaching one elective period per day for the middle school population, I suggested a STEM elective since I had just taught a summer full of STEM during NYC’s annual STEM in the City programming. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

This ethical question formed the center of a thoughtful, deep discussion about an email from the school administration asking teachers to tell students not to “like” a YouTube video posted by a comedian who had been accused of making anti-Semitic statements.

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Education Ethics Learning Outcomes Discussions 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!”

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Culture Math Science Beliefs 206

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Grade-Specific Topics : Digital citizenship is taught progressively from kindergarten to middle school. Rights and Responsibilities : Understanding that with the right to access the internet comes the responsibility to act ethically is vital.

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Teaching Gamification Ethics Internet 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Victoria Salas Salcedo English Language Arts Teacher, Rancho Milpitas Middle School Victoria Salas Salcedo, a Bay Area middle school teacher who recently achieved National Board Certification in English Language Arts for Early Adolescence, has incorporated artificial intelligence in her classroom for the past three years.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Comply with ethical guidelines: Ensure that your use of ChatGPT adheres to ethical guidelines and policies set by the platform or service provider.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Protecting Student Data School principals want to know how AI can be used in the classroom beyond having students copy and paste from it, Paul Liabenow says, and are of course concerned about students using it to cheat. I love this guidance tool, because it reminds us of areas that we need to be sensitive to and diligent at protecting.”

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Confidentiality Disabilities Ethics Middle School 160

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems. Comply with ethical guidelines: Ensure that your use of ChatGPT adheres to ethical guidelines and policies set by the platform or service provider.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

Roberta Duvall is a Washoe County School District principal at B.D. Billinghurst Middle School. With a ratio of up to 38 students per teacher, which rose after budget cuts, her school is trying to do a lot with a little. To learn more, please read our Ethics Statement. Roberta Duvall, principal at B.D.

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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 14, 2015

.” Diana Graber, co-founder of Cyberwise, an online resource for adults seeking to help kids be safe and productive online, started the webcast with some statistics and information about her middle school digital citizenship media literacy program called Cyber Civics. “It all starts with education,” she said.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels. Generally, as students reach middle school, Mendoza notes that they will likely be getting their first smartphone, which can open up the conversations educators can have with their students. “In For example, Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mich.,

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Curriculum Internet Middle School Middle School 126

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels. Generally, as students reach middle school, Mendoza notes that they will likely be getting their first smartphone, which can open up the conversations educators can have with their students. “In For example, Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mich.,

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Curriculum Internet Middle School Middle School 126

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Within the first five years of the transition, Sanborn schools also built a competency-based curriculum and performance-based assessments based on those standards. In April 2016, the organization launched a six-week MyWays micropilot at Memorial Elementary School and Sanborn Regional Middle School.

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Ethics 103

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2017

Teaching Strategies Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher, hosts this podcast as part of her popular blog on teaching strategies, education reform, and ed tech. Recent episodes explore the ethics of coding and diversity in tech. Please share your own picks in the comments section below.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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Technology Teaching Methods Critical Thinking Learning Styles 130

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

The ever-changing conditions require responsible decision making, the ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions and the well-being of self and others.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I had high hopes for my students, but the average lexile score at my school was 800, which is equivalent to a late elementary or middle school level. Heightened engagement, improved work ethic, more self-regulation and stronger communication skills are often the types of growth that keep us coming to work everyday.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

We influence our classrooms, schools, and districts. A middle school teacher shared how her values compete with her capacity to care for her own mental well-being while caring for her students from underserved communities in Georgia: "My values are advocacy and mental health.

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Education Participation Feedback Beliefs 197

Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

From the Project Tomorrow Speak Up survey, we learned that 51% of parents of middle school students are worried about their children’s safety online, including being harassed or bullied on school-provided online collaboration tools, whereas in 2007 only 32% of parents expressed this concern.

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Ethics Middle School Middle School Communication 84

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

That was an important part of what kept a little middle school girl coming back to those competitions. I was also very fortunate at that young, impressionable age to have two female mentors coaching my team; one was in high school and one was a recent college graduate. And with FIRST I could compete but also have fun.

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STEM Coaching Failure Ethics 119

Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 27, 2017

Diana’s solution to this issue was a middle-school media literacy program, entitled “Cyber Civics.” Cyber Civics emphasizes critical thinking, ethical discussion and decision making about digital media issues … all through role-play, hands-on projects and problem solving tasks.

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Teaching Ethics Critical Thinking Middle School 71

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

By middle school, your students are starting to discover their places in society. What is the biggest ethical issue facing American society today? Important Sociology Topics for Middle School Looking for additional ways to bring sociological topics into a middle school social studies class?

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Questions Grades Social Studies Middle School 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2017

Serial — for Middle School; unfolds one story over a season. Short and Curly — an ethics podcast. Here are oft-recommended sites educators use for that purpose: Brains On! Science Podcast. Radio Adventures of Eleanor Amplified. RadioLoab — NY Public Radio. StoryNory Stories for Kids. Story Pirates Podcast.

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Mobile Devices Ethics Learning Styles Culture 83

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Her school spent a few months on a STEM mystery novel project that involved multimedia tools along with books to prompt deep conversations about artificial intelligence, engineering design and ethics. The task is difficult if they are not part of the conversation. “It Right now I still think there is a divide in the sessions.

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Learning Intelligence Ethics Testing 99

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Every school system has pockets of innovation. Those three forward-thinking teachers in the elementary school, that one grade-level team in the middle school, the department that’s really trying to do something different at the high school, that amazing principal over there, and so on. You’re out of luck.

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Gaggle Speaks

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Our youngest learners, as well as our adults, need to know how to evaluate online sources, how to make ethical decisions, and how to humanize the person next to us, around the world and across the screen. We want to continue this critical conversation and go beyond safety. Student Online Safety: A Son (and Mom’s) Perspective Click To Tweet.

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Students Ethics Middle School Middle School 70

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

I was bright-eyed, optimistic, and excited to start out a new role that combined administration with teaching middle-school math. Why is it important that we address sexism and sexual harassment the education industry—and, particularly, in schools and universities? A sense of ethics or morality is high on the list.

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Education Communication Ethics Questions 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

If your students are struggling with this, try one of these gamified approaches to learning math: Dimension M – math simulations for middle school and high school. Quandary – an ethics problem-solving game from MIT. Science simulations — lots of choices at the Middle School level. Programming. Technology.

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Blended Learning History Math Learning 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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