Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

Introducing Traverse, a digital-forward, inquiry-driven social studies curriculum for grades 6-12. Inquiry is a way to construct democratic laboratory experiences where students can practice living in a deliberative, diverse democracy. We are just having an old conversation with new tricks. I'm thinking, Where's the life?

Social Studies

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. And I've always read a lot of science fiction books about maybe that could start pushing the frontiers of and even helping us understand what is intelligence and what is consciousness. I mean, he took calculus in seventh grade. Why were you drawn to that area?

Intelligence

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

At Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School (LAB), the school’s co-founders, Erin Mote and Eric Tucker, are constantly on a quest to innovate and welcome the opportunity to iterate as they grow. Since the school’s launch in 2014, their vision has come to life and the school has grown to serve 479 students in grades 6-8.

Schools

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

I might read a book or take an online course to learn some new ideas. So this is a great technique to get students to interact with this concept in a way that they wouldn’t by just reading a chapter. Home laboratory In a home laboratory, students experiment with a theory and report their findings to the instructor or to the class.

Laboratory

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

I might read a book or take an online course to learn some new ideas. So this is a great technique to get students to interact with this concept in a way that they wouldn’t by just reading a chapter. Home laboratory In a home laboratory, students experiment with a theory and report their findings to the instructor or to the class.

Laboratory

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

She is an engineer who holds a doctorate in speech-recognition technology, and has spent the past two decades researching this field at Columbia University, IBM and Bell Laboratories. The plan is to test another 1,000 students in 2020, and another 600 the following year.

Laboratory

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Of those students, an estimated 1 in 10 kindergarten and first grade students were chronically absent. Chronic absenteeism “can translate into third-graders unable to master reading, sixth-graders failing subjects and ninth-graders dropping out of high school,” according to Attendance Works. Why is this a problem ?

Technology

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

In the early ‘60s, Seymour came to MIT and co-founded with Marvin Minsky its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. And so began close to 40 years of research and innovation tying together computer technology with ideas about the development of intelligence, knowledge, and learning to learn.

Knowledge

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. Meanwhile, students still struggle to read. Per reporting from The New York Times , he told parents: “It’s not your fault.

Education

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

Education

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is no different than having laboratory studies that suggest a particular treatment might cure cancer, only to find out that it doesn't work as well when you try to use that in patients. A lot of what we want to do is to give students more opportunities to do things that may not be correlated with grades, right?

Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2018

Using an Android or iOS AR app, students aim it at an image (called a “trigger”) and reveal deeper content layered on top of the physical world be it a student’s discussion of a book they read or the inspiration behind their artwork. — image credit: Mrs. B’s 1st Grade Classroom.

Laboratory

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

It’s not because you made them read a book or listen to a tape recording. First of all, it’s a digital-learning environment that is much more commercial grade, much more immersive, much more interactive than today’s existing learning management systems. We’re creating virtual laboratories. So they’re ready for it then.

History

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

Each time someone caught the ball, he or she read aloud the SDG that landed face up, then reflected for a moment about what that global goal might mean locally, or personally. If you look at the sum total of the efforts, I’m not sure you’d give them the highest grades,” he said. goals, which students referred to, casually, as “SDGs.”

High School

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

face masks are featured on the school supply lists for every grade at every school in the district, from Pre-K to high school. all students from kindergarten to 12th grade are asked to bring a face mask with them starting on the first day of school, on Aug. The 2020-21 school supply lists for grades K-5 at Joplin Schools in Missouri.

Laboratory

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Ng is seen as one of the leading figures in artificial intelligence, having founded and directed the Google Brain project and served as the chief scientist at the Chinese search giant Baidu, as well as having directed the artificial intelligence laboratory at Stanford University. After all, the Deeplearning.ai

Teaching