Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Two truths and one lie I often share with my class are: I am a physics teacher I hate science I love dogs The lie, unfortunately, is that I love dogs — they’re fine; I’m just not a pet person. In this case, I really am a physics teacher who, at one point , hated science; in fact, I spent the better part of the past decade trying to escape it.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Yet, if there is one takeaway from the burgeoning learning sciences research, it is that no two of us learn in exactly the same way. The result is a learning experience that is more attuned to individual needs and differences, ensuring each student has a fair chance at success. The post Time Efficiency vs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom. This Class is Unfair The pivotal class I was teaching at the time was a physical science course, consisting of three sections of 15 to 17 eighth graders.

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Heres the breakdown: Think Students take a moment to reflect on a question or prompt independently. It Builds Confidence and Gets Students Thinking More Deeply When you ask a question, like Why do you think the character did that? Start with a Strong Prompt The way you ask questions matters. some kids freeze up.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The question is, are we going to have people equipped to fill those jobs?” We have a plan and we’re ready to progress that plan,” said Calvin McNeil, an Advanced Placement computer science instructor with the University of Florida. But we want to do all that in a really careful way and make sure the AI we’re using is fair and unbiased.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here is an example of a Present and Defend protocol used in science investigations. Related : 8 questions for educators as they use assessments to support student learning Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers This is a great framework that can be adapted for all content areas and grade levels.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

-based startup, which offers data warehousing and visualization tools for schools and districts, has acquired Decision Science Labs. Decision Science Labs, a small outfit based in Washington, D.C., Questions she believes Schoolzilla’s tool can raise include: Which schools are spending less than their peers but getting better results?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Plan hands-on science experiments for kids that bring learning to life. These hands-on science experiments for preschoolers are full of excitement! These playful science experiments spark curiosity about plant growth, motion, sound vibrations, and absorption. As the colorful water spreads, their hidden message appears!

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s titled “ The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking ,” and it found that students who took notes on a TED talk by hand did better on conceptual recall questions afterward than those who typed their notes on a laptop. And can tech be used to help boost students' memory of what they’re taught?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Once imagined only in science fiction, artificial intelligence now powers much of the technology we interact with every day—from smart home devices to cognitive assistants to media recommenders. And with this change comes a host of new questions—concerns about the ethical design and implementation of these new tools.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. Questions in this phase could include “What does this remind me of?” ” The me phase asks participants to reflect on their personal connection to what they’ve observed and thought.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year has seen ample debate about the value and fairness of colleges prioritizing diversity among the students they serve. New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects their grades. Of course, neither kind of rationale seemed convincing to the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The critical question is, “ What is the right type of co-learning ?” Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. Sometimes group projects work well. How do we evaluate their knowledge?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A more practical imagining came from Ann Makosinski , a Canadian who as a teen invented a flashlight powered by body heat as part of a Google science fair. One youngster proposed “imagination transportation,” saying if he can sit in a cardboard box and fly, surely that could work. A lightbulb-moment video kicked off Alphonso’s talk.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

Harvard professor David Malan has managed to pull off a neat trick: His Computer Science 50 course is the most popular course at both Harvard and Yale. Why is Professor Malan’s course so popular, even with students who don’t plan a career in computer science—and even though it requires a lot of work? My son, Dan, took the course.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2022

Now, here’s the main question – how can web filtering possibly be of harm for the kids? Both opinions have their right to exist, both seem fair. It protects them from things their minds are not ready for, it saves them from being hacked. However, sometimes blocking way too much content might limit the kids’ learning process.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here is an example of a Present and Defend protocol used in science investigations. Related : 8 questions for educators as they use assessments to support student learning Designing fair and inclusive tests for non-native speakers This is a great framework that can be adapted for all content areas and grade levels.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

the winner of the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ), the nation’s premier middle school science competition. The communication component of SparkCare+ asks the participant questions and elaborates on the Hamilton Anxiety and Depression rating scales, providing insight for the AI.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

Every year, around the country, high school students get their hands dirty with science projects—chemistry labs, robotics, that model of a volcano. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, was the first where students designed a satellite that was actually launched into space. So who gets to go?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Hey, We’re All on the Same Team Here’ Fans of flipped learning had some questions about the new study’s conclusions. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.” I’m on team science, and this is what the empirical science is proving,” he said in an interview.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

One question now is whether the new terms will convince other Coursera partners who are not currently offering degree programs on the platform to start doing so. One question now is whether the new terms will convince other Coursera partners who are not currently offering degree programs on the platform to start doing so.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan. And the questions improved,” Fath says.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

The question of who’s most likely to succeed also drives the world of selective college admissions. But Miller and other skeptics wonder whether the science behind these tools is sound, and ask if students’ data should exert so much control over their destinies. We believe in you. We are bringing far more objectivity to the process.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

To counter this decline in student engagement, programs like Labster are on a mission to democratize access to education by making it possible for remote students to participate in virtual science labs. These values may show up embedded into the logic of questions, as well as on expectations of speed of completion.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

All scholarship recipients created videos that answered the scholarship program’s question for this year: “Please describe the skills you have learned in your VHS Learning course that you feel will be helpful in college or your career, and why.”. Ruizhe (Fair) Shen from the Fontbonne The Early College of Boston in Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). Teachers want fair funding for all schools. In fact, charter schools have been accused of re-segregation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The survey also took measure of kids’ interests in science, technology, education and math. Cool to Be Kind Kids reported a fairly sunny outlook on their relationships and communities, responding positively to questions about how they treat others and their feelings about their community.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

There were a number of questions she wanted to answer back then, questions she’s still asking now: “How do you change a high school curriculum, and why is it so hard to change?” “How It’s just a question of getting marginally better.”. How can you move past multiple choice tests?” But it has support—and not just from investors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another. Our lives in the natural world are driven by a series of existential questions, as well as supporting questions (or just-in-time questions), that help us navigate each moment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

But how do I apply service to science? The answers to those questions are fairly simple; resources designed to reinforce these skills are readily available. It’s a question of curation—finding the best content, adapting it for classroom use, integrating it with existing curriculum, incorporating assessment and rubrics, and so on.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This new research begs a bigger question for education leaders striving for more equitable outcomes: What kinds of relationship data do schools need to understand the trajectories their students are on, and the relationships and resources at their disposal? Who’s in your neighborhood? Who are your caregivers’ friends? explained Schwartz.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. And rather than earning points based on the number of subject-matter questions they answer correctly, they advance based on their performance at other gameplay tasks. In a game, you are 100 percent OK with failing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

One question often lurks in the minds of college students: “What am I going to do after I graduate?” Results of a new study of 20 million LinkedIn users, published last month in Science, makes concrete the far-reaching employment effects of social media—platforms surprisingly more powerful than friends and family.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

A nod from a top science magazine to the game many parents wish their kids had never heard of should catch the attention of teachers. 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. Problem Solving.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. Who could I be here?

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