Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

A new open letter signed by more than 250 company CEOs calls for states to require students to take courses in computer science and artificial intelligence, claiming that that kind of training can boost graduates job prospects and future earnings. Adding applied math courses is also on the agenda.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Teamwork is essential for building students social-emotional intelligence. Here are just four edtech tools that can help transform teamwork in the classroom : Padlet: One of my first go-to tools is Padlet–its super easy to use and works great for grades 3-12. Collaboration is also essential to human scientific progress.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

I don’t think every instructor needs to be an AI expert, but I do think we’re doing our students a disservice if we’re not teaching them how to be AI Whisperers, a concept I gleaned from Ethan Mollick’s 2024 book, Co-Intelligence. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. How American Youth View and Use Artificial Intelligence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2025

Today: K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum Overview K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum — 9 grade levels. Who needs this Tech teachers, tech coordinators, library media specialists, curriculum specialists Classroom grade level teachers if your tech teacher doesn’t cover basic tech skills. 46 lessons. 46 projects.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Built on the company’s patented Intelligent Adaptive Learning platform, DreamBox Reading captures data from student answers, strategies, and behaviors to personalize learning in real time. This adaptivity ensures that students are met where they are with just-right instruction and fun activities.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

Alongside recently published a report revealing what worries today’s kids are willing to share with artificial intelligence systems. The top 10 chat topics were the same across all ages, grades and geographic locations, according to data from more than 250,000 messages exchanged with middle and high school students spanning 19 states.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 25, 2025

You can also weave in Howard Gardners theory of multiple intelligences to figure out how your students best express themselves; some shine when they write, others when they build, act, or code. It could be another teacher on your team, a specialist like an art or music teacher, or even a class in a different grade.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2025

Today: K-12 Technology Curriculum Overview The K-12 Technology Curriculum is Common Core and ISTE aligned, and outlines what should be taught when so students have the necessary scaffolding to use tech for grade level state standards and school curriculum. Lessons build on each other kindergarten through 5th grade.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), microlearning, and learning analytics provides new dimensions to this pedagogical approach, enhancing both student preparation and in-class engagement. model, the learning process is amplified by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, which help personalize student learning pathways.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. Its a middle-grade math game in which aliens come to Earth to learn about decimal fractions. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), microlearning, and learning analytics provides new dimensions to this pedagogical approach, enhancing both student preparation and in-class engagement. model, the learning process is amplified by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, which help personalize student learning pathways.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 95

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

Nowadays, teachers can use technology to share grades with parents, organize their lesson plans through apps and track a child’s progress. These are things that involve technology to supplement, not replace, sensory learning. What About Teachers? Technology also serves the adults who are providing the instruction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2025

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k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

A key part of this approach is the ASDAN curriculum, which is designed to develop practical skills, social integration, and emotional intelligence. Success isn’t just about grades—it’s about finding your path and feeling confident in your journey,” says Llana.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

Designed for grades 6-8, the project-based program is beginner-friendly; no prior programming experience is required for teachers or students. As AI continues to automate routine tasks, students must be able to guide systems, understand logic and collaborate with intelligent tools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2025

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Additionally, the importance of emotional intelligence in teaching is gaining recognition. Additionally, artificial intelligence will play a vital role in automating administrative tasks, freeing educators to focus more on teaching and mentoring.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

On Friday, June 6, we will fold artificial intelligence into the mix. AI, Schools, and Deeper Learning Artificial intelligence (AI) – particularly generative AI – is rapidly transforming how we learn, work, and create, while simultaneously sparking grave concerns about the ongoing balance between humans and machines.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2025

Parent compliments; colleague recommendations Include comments from colleagues or parents of students, posted anonymously as ‘fifth-grade teacher’ or ‘third-grade parent’ If you have official Letters of Recommendation, do NOT post them here. Save them until requested.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Many students face challenges not due to a lack of intelligence but because they struggle with organization, time management, and emotional regulation. Through guided peer interactions and role-playing exercises, students practice initiating conversations, maintaining friendships, and developing emotional intelligence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 21, 2025

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

after January 1, 1978, are automatically protected by copyright once they are fixed in a tangible medium (like the Internet) BUT a single copy may be used for scholarly research (even if that’s a 2nd grade life cycle report) or in teaching or preparation to teach a class. The law states that works of art created in the U.S.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. In classrooms where teachers emphasize performance goals (errorless performance on tasks, points, and grades), students are more likely to cheat. Ensure evidence of integrity before giving marks or grades.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2025

New America has a good overview on raising kids with tech: Navigating How and When to Use Tech When Teaching Young Children Take-Aways from Our Two-Part Series Focused On Tablets in Pre-K Through Third Grade Early childhood educators make thousands of decisions each day. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

And as faculty members grapple with what this means for grading, tech companies have proved yet again that there’s money to be made from panic. He appealed to the university administration, ultimately winning the right to have his papers graded without the technology.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

My own brother — who is incredibly intelligent, younger than I am, and has already paid off his house (what?!?!) — once told me, “I never read anything unless I absolutely have to.” The first book series I remember reading was in fourth and fifth grade. And 9 th grade seems like a good foundational place to start.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

Conscious Discipline – A useful framework for fostering emotional intelligence and creating a calm, focused classroom culture. Teaching Strategies and Innovation Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics Grades K-12 – A resource filled with strategies to encourage deep mathematical thinking in students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 2, 2025

30 K-8 coding activities, organized by grade 138 images aligned with ISTE and Common Core lots of options to differentiate for student needs Questions? It’ll show up in your basket for $.99 99 instead of $.9.99 What’s in the Hour of Code bundle? Ask Jacqui Murray at askatechteacher at gmail dot com.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

When evaluating a computer science curriculum, its important to consider how it approaches artificial intelligence. The courses support computing from basic skills to advanced theory, serving grades K-12. To be intellectually ethical, computer science education should equip students with comprehensive knowledge about AI.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

To learn more, EdSurge spoke with three members of Olney Independent School District (OISD) in Texas: Alyssa Betts , district emergent bilingual coordinator; Veronica Fobbs , seventh grade science teacher; and Elianis T., an EB student.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 27, 2025

Over the next months, in this series, I’ll show you how to teach Photoshop skills appropriate for fifth grade and up. Believe it or not, there are a whole list of skills easy enough for a fifth grader (maybe even fourth, but I haven’t had time to test it yet). Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2025

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

While the AI readiness framework covers preK-12, the team began by designing a diagnostic for high school students in grades 9-12. They are now exploring ways to adapt the tool for other grade levels and to incorporate more complex items, such as performance-based tasks that allow students to demonstrate their skills in real-world contexts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 5, 2025

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 22, 2025

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2025

By fourth grade, my students are so good at PowerPoint, I don’t even teach it in fifth grade (I move on to Photoshop). They’ve learned enough to get them through school. from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

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, Use debate topics for high schoolers that they know well, from social media usage to the reach of artificial intelligence. 8; CCRA.SL.4

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