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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

They started by asking a series of questions that were on their minds. The Questions are in bold and my answers in italics : I allow my kids to have “Friends” in Roblox or Instagram and only chat with friends. You can check their browser history and who their friends are without feeling like you’re spying on them.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

Several fellows also craved more learning experiences that reflected their everyday lives, whether that comes via more experiential learning opportunities or through bringing in personal histories to classrooms and curriculum. Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan. So we made it more open-ended.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther considered the question, sitting in a small room with Ms. Today, I teach world history and geography to newcomers in a Title I school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where nearly 60 percent of the 1,550 students enrolled in our school are Hispanic and speak Spanish, and many speak a Mayan dialect.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. Kathy Swan Inquiry-based learning frames learning through questions rather than answers, and in the classroom, students drive those questions with guidance from teachers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

At the end of every year, EdSurge rounds up a collection of its top stories based on clicks, shares and website traffic—and no year in our short history has been quite as dramatic as this one. Months after schools began going online, those are still open questions. How do I keep students engaged? Actually, Yes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. In my classes, students must qualify to use Minecraft by answering a series of questions I pose. How students answer this question is always interesting. We all have a great time.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

And I think there’s no question that when you think. John Watson So first of all I want to just echo the point that you’re making in your question, which is in these online settings relationships and student engagement are absolutely critical and I don’t. So that’s one version of the answer to your question.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

There are still many unanswered questions about what that might look like in practice, as colleges try to balance safety through social distancing while making teaching and other campuses experiences meaningful and effective. These were the questions tackled this week during a live online discussion, part of our monthly EdSurge Live series.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Reidel has been teaching high school civics and history for over two decades. I mean, that's the thing that's been amazing is just to sit and reflect upon these pillars, in my mind, of American history who are so much more than what we often describe them as. I'm not going to question it.’” It just is the way it is.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Since his days as an elementary student in Texas, Richard Collins has loved history. Through studying my family history I became interested in education reform issues including charter schools, scholarship programs, better pay and career ladders for teachers. Eisenhower to some of his own ancestors. Now as the Chairman and CEO of.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? Is history an important class for todays teenagers, or is it a waste of time? Is it fair to judge someone based on social media posts from years ago? When is it okay to break up with a friend?

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

The teacher won’t be surprised by a failure or a question they can’t answer. If you’re geeky, you love problems, puzzles, and the maze that leads from question to answer. Often, what works for one person is based on their perspective, personal history, and goals. But make it fair. Revise your mindset.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Given the speed at which today’s employees flit from job to job, many employers may be questioning the value of investing in extensive professional development.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 12, 2021

There are many things in history that do not have two equal opposing sides: slavery, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, segregation, etc. There is only one side to these events that is fair, just, and equitable. Silence is compliance. We can not necessarily change their hearts and minds, but we can force them to confront the truth.

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Fairness History Questions Student Engagement 83

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., 2] will make history as the first AI mainstage presenter. For instance, at the June 2023 ISTELive event, C.L.Ai.R.A. [2]

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Still, she didn’t expect the question one student asked her during a recent symposium at a university. colleges got into the democracy business, and you may get a bit of a history lesson. It’s very easy to do a service learning experience but not learn that we don’t have free and fair elections in some parts of this country.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

The group points to a history of price increases by the publishers, and argues that once students and colleges become accustomed to these new digital arrangements, the publisher will raise prices. Cengage and McGraw-Hill’s initiatives focused on affordability saved students more than $115 million last year alone.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

To begin to answer this question, EdSurge recently spoke with Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development, a prominent teacher pipeline that pushes for greater educator diversity in public schools, and Meheret Woldeyohannes, the director of external affairs for that organization. You have to remember that Brown v.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This is part two of our two-part series tackling these questions. And so the question I often ask people is, ‘How many people had a first job?’ I think that's a completely fair concern,” she says, adding that her company does not work with either McDonald’s or Amazon, another company Guendelsberger spoke about. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

Leaders of 24 institutions serving them are answering this question in Atlanta this week as part of a conference hosted by United Negro College Fund’s (UNCF). How can historically black colleges and universities provide meaningful employment to struggling students and alumni? Career Pathways Initiative (CPI). Source: Craig Huey Photography).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

The two institutions that are profiled in the book are Colgate and Whitman, [in] different parts of the country but both institutions with very strong histories in the liberal arts, very recognized as high quality, well-endowed, financially solid. One last question for you: Is the solution for any small institution to simply close?

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

While we can complain about the divisiveness of the 2016 version, the 1860 election was a particularly tumultuous period in American history. He posted an earlier version of this article on his blog, History Tech. Think about how the use of social media may have affected the 1860 presidential election. I’m curious.

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Social Studies Mobile Devices History Fairness 112

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The mandate made New Jersey second in the nation to implement such a measure; California’s so-called FAIR Education Act (Senate Bill 48) was passed in 2011. We’ve been trying to answer these questions: What is not being highlighted in our existing curriculum? We're going to do LGBTQIA history now." How do we find resources?

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here, students are required to conduct an actual performance instead of simply providing an answer to a question or responding to a prompt. Presenting the findings to a real audience motivates students to understand their work process so that they are ready to respond to audience questions.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It turns out there’s a lot of weird questions that come up,” Townsend Gard says. Townsend Gard has vivid memories of being a graduate student in history trying to figure out if she could use works from the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s for her dissertation on narratives about World War I. That the data is that picky is a problem.”

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Taking a moment to paraphrase or ask clarifying questions shows engagement and listening on the instructors part. Consider having students draw questions from a hat for discussion or assign a different group member to lead the discussion for each question. Make course consistency and fairness a priority. Mix things up.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

And an undercurrent has run just below the surface, questioning how accurate it is to call these courses "open.". This October, two open education pioneers are teaming up to pilot a new edX course titled “ Introduction to Open Education ” with hopes to amplify and answer some of these questions. Ekowo: Why this MOOC? And, why now?

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

You know that old interview question: What would change in education if you had a magic wand? Imagine you teach World History,” Looney explains. For Scott Looney, there’d be no hesitating: He would have every school switch from traditional grading to competency-based evaluations. They just make sense.”.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. With AI, educators can create more differentiated learning tools and enhance personalization.

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Plagiarism Ethics Education Intelligence 134

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

Debra Mashek: It’s a great question. It's not just about political diversity, it's about diversity of thought and students and professors being able to ask questions and to research different areas without necessarily needing to march along in an orthodoxical way. It's a great question. What are your questions, your concerns?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 23, 2016

A common and recurring question from parents is how to keep their children safe while using the internet. For years, it was a fairly simple process of monitoring history and blocking certain search terms. Here are the things you need to be doing: Know Who Is Out There. But the challenge has evolved, as technology always does.

Internet 112

Internet Fairness History Curriculum 112

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Taking a moment to paraphrase or ask clarifying questions shows engagement and listening on the instructors part. Consider having students draw questions from a hat for discussion or assign a different group member to lead the discussion for each question. Make course consistency and fairness a priority. Mix things up.

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Instructors Feedback Discussions Participation 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? This is not fair” (Syed, 2023). GenAI companies are arguing that their tools transform the copyrighted data they scraped from the Internet in a way that falls under fair use protections. 2023; Perkins et al.,

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

It’s a question of equity, a goal that is generally assumed to be one most educators want to achieve. Yet, these days the issue seems more complicated, as political debates frame equity policies as in conflict with ideals of fairness and tradition. It's part of that child's history. I want to ask you to reflect and think.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

The assignment he revised was from a course he taught in 2012 about the history of mathematics and cryptography that fulfilled a campus writing requirement. Giving clear rubrics and expectations is meant to make grading more transparent and fair, and groups including the Transparency in Learning & Teaching project advocate for the notion.

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