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JUNE 24, 2025

But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. These legal steps create a safe, fair, and effective digital learning environment. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Who is responsible if an AI gives bad advice or shares sensitive student data?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

In fact, the answer to the question… “What online images can I use?” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. AI-assisted Socratic questioning can be a valuable tool in this regard. References Bender, Emily M., Cotton, Debby R., Cotton, and James R.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. AI-assisted Socratic questioning can be a valuable tool in this regard. References Bender, Emily M., Cotton, Debby R., Cotton, & James R.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

He emphasizes that effective digital programs are driven by specific educational needswhether supporting CTE (Career and Technical Education), dropout recovery, or creating early college opportunitiesrather than by technology itself. I mean, it’s program first technology, second right? I mean it’s. And I were.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 25, 2025

I receive a fair number of newly published early childhood/teaching books, often unsolicited, with the idea that I'll write a review or otherwise promote it on the blog. Then they make this ludicrous assertion: "The idea of integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into learning centers is relatively new."

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

So it’s fair to say probably districts have found everyone within their staff and now are having to look for outside candidates.” Right now many of us have been saying it’s not a fair pathway and there should be some workarounds or fast tracks; many of us are not going to give up on trying to see those come to fruition,” Powell says.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Whats more, interfering with trusted sources raises deeper questions about authenticity and the merits of study. Among the NEH grants canceled was more than $300,000 for National History Day , the annual competition that is the humanities equivalent to a national science fair. It creates a lot more work for educators, Futrell says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Walberto Flores EdTech Coordinator, Highlands International School San Salvador Artificial intelligence has entered our classrooms — sometimes invited and other times not — leaving educators to ask essential questions about its implementation and impact. Walberto Flores: How might we redefine teaching and learning?

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas found itself in need of a way to score exponentially more written responses on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, after a new law mandated that at least 25 percent of questions be open-ended — rather than multiple choice — starting in the 2022-23 school year. Using technology to score essays is nothing new.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Troubleshoots technology hiccups. If the answer to most of these questions is you, the teacher, then you’ve already realized you are doing the lion’s share of the work in your classroom. My students have even designed and led parent technology trainings to help their parents get up to speed on some of the technology tools we are using.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? So they write a bunch of tests items or questions of different kinds. asks Mark Moulton.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2014

So, I decided to get creative with technology and modify my class so students would still cover the content. This is an ideal space to post announcements, allow students to ask questions, and encourage students to have discussions about assignments. Yesterday Northern California was hit by massive storm.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

With AI dominating headlines in all industries, it’s a relatively common question: Is everything about AI? Bias and fairness: Bias in AI systems and troubles ensuring fair treatment 3. How do we balance technological advancement with preserving human values and interaction?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system. Defining AI in each of these spaces has resulted in the emergence of specific questions that guide AI usage and encourage innovation with AI.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 8, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to infuse technology more robustly, consider these 12 questions from Section D* of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Technology Infusion. Communication.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Our AI guiding principles started this process of building an ethical AI mindset, which provided pathways to critically question AI in our system. Defining AI in each of these spaces has resulted in the emergence of specific questions that guide AI usage and encourage innovation with AI.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As educators embrace innovative technology-enhanced instructional models , they often grapple with letting go of the time-saving practices inherent in the traditional teacher-led, teacher-paced whole group approach to instruction. .” This can ultimately save teachers instructional time in the long run.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

As schools, teachers and families face the shock of abruptly shifting to online education, one small question has been how to shift these read alouds to Zoom, Facebook, Google Hangouts and YouTube, the spaces where many classes continue to meet. What Is Fair Use? The short answer is, well, yes. In the U.S.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I do a lot of speaking about technology trends in education, and none of my talks seem to get larger audiences than those that address new or emerging technologies. So, as an educator interested in technology — after all, you are reading eSchool News — what is the best source for tracking emerging technologies for learning?

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2017

As Dan Rothstein, executive director of the Right Question Institute, tells the story: “The teacher presented the following equation: 24 = (smiley face) + (smiley face) + (smiley face).” Then, she asked her students to think of as many questions as they could about the equation. 3) Write down every question exactly as stated. (4)

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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 blueprint of what it looks like to implement this technology into different fields of education and what types of relationships that creates with the workforce. This isn’t the age of Rosie the Robot taking over jobs–there will be jobs.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

MindSpark defines RAI with the following 5 pillars – RAI is community-centric; it is monitorable and secure; ethical and fair; justifiable and accountable; as well as explainable and transparent. The course deeply addresses the question of the ethical and responsible use of AI within our world.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

My husband knows that I work for a software company that does stuff with 3D printing and that we get free tickets to Maker Faire , but that’s usually the extent of his interest in my profession. They raised their hands and shouted out answers and sought me out to ask more questions. Today they asked questions. Today they cared.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 3, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to move toward more authentic, real world work, consider these 8 questions from Section B of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Domain Technologies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to drive deeper student thinking and learning, consider these 8 questions from Section A of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Let me know what questions you have.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2024

More than four out of five (82 percent) higher education students have used AI technologies compared to just 58 percent of high school students. ” Survey findings also indicate that high school teachers are more likely to be approached by their students with permission-based AI questions (67 percent vs. 52 percent).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 6, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to have students drive more of their own learning, consider these 9 questions from Section C of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Technology Selection.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2021

A 2014 research study with a catchy title is often pointed to by those who worry that technology is having unexpected downsides in the classroom. Miller has been looking into what learning science says about all kinds of narratives that float around technology and teaching these days.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Technology has the power to bring together years of student IEP-related data, allowing educators to understand better both how to serve individual students and where their programs are making a difference. Did we meet our programmatic goals this year? How do we compare to last year?

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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. So why did diversity affect student grades?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Palmdale School District Superintendent Dr. Raúl Maldonado discusses the district’s “Palmdale Promise” initiative, focusing on technological equity and early literacy. And I will have to tell you that my technology team does. I know that there is a pretty heavy technology component. Follow your show.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To move education forward takes using technology to engage kids and spark a passion for learning, she said – tech for transformation. 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. Guys in lab coats?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2016

I do a lot of speaking about ed-tech trends, and none of my talks seem to get larger audiences than those that address new or emerging technologies. So, as an educator interested in technology — after all, you are reading eSchool News — what is the best source for tracking emerging technologies for learning?

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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. The field of education is no less affected by these technologies. Furthermore, educators are not the only ones using AI technologies.

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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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