A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

In addition to being informed by a broad body of research and driven by evidence, the IPA process is also aligned with the following: Future Ready Schools (Click HERE to view a detailed alignment document) National Education Technology Plan ( NETP ) Books that showcase evidence and changes to practice aligned with research Disruptive Thinking in Our (..)

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2024

Digital Promise leaders reflect on top insights and learnings around education technology from the ISTELive 2024 conference.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That was the last class I taught at the high school before moving into my new role as an assistant professor at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska, where I teach a course for pre-service teachers on educational technology. One of the challenges is to find ways to model great teaching while delivering the content my students need.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

I also field a lot of questions from elementary teachers who are curious about how they can integrate technology into their lessons in a meaningful and developmentally appropriate way. What are EduProtocols? Eduprotocols are instructional strategies initially developed by Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released an AI report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning. The report outlined recommendations for guidelines and guardrails for the responsible use of AI in educational technology. . — Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. The growing reliance on data and analytics to help build that ecosystem.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Leading By Example For Alana Winnick, educational technology director at Pocantico Hills Central School District in Sleepy Hollow, New York, it’s important to make it clear to colleagues when she uses generative AI in a way that is new — and which people may not even realize is possible.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

A statement issued by the school district said “several educational technology companies are interested in acquiring” AllHere to continue its work, though nothing concrete has been announced.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, “educational policy and decision-makers at the local, state, and federal level should use their power to align priorities, educational strategies, and technology adoption decisions to place the academic needs of students ahead of the excitement about emerging AI capabilities.”

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. Rocio Raña is the CEO and co-founder of LangInnov, a company that uses automated scoring for its language and literacy assessments for bilingual students and is working on another one for writing.

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Inclusive Design Inclusive design in educational technology is crucial to ensure that all students, regardless of their abilities or backgrounds, have equal access to learning opportunities. Choose tools that offer customizable settings, allowing teachers to adjust the difficulty level and content to meet the needs of their students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

The foundation is also seeking to expand the use of outcomes-based contracts beyond tutoring to education technology and software. Walker says that the rate cards and recordkeeping are improving from the first pilot round, which took place during the stress and chaos of the pandemic.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Equipping Teachers With AI Expertise To truly realize the potential of AI, there is a need for a technology-literate, fully engaged workforce. Department of Education Office of Educational Technologys AI policy report addresses the clear need to share knowledge, engage educators and refine policies for AI use in education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s why the development of AI-powered tools that can accommodate all learners must be a priority for policymakers, districts and the education technology industry. The stakes are much higher for these students, and digital media often underserves them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In other efforts, students often didn’t want to use earlier versions of education technology and computerized tutors. Kestin hopes his AI tutor will allow him to spend less time on vocabulary and basics and devote more time to creative activities and advanced problems during class.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

Online has become more the norm,” said Phil Hill, a consultant and market analyst of education technology in higher education, whose newsletter alerted me to the new milestone. “It’s Compared to before the pandemic, an additional 1.5 million students were taking all of their courses online and 1.35

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

I wasn’t an overly confident student when it came to engaging in open conversations during class. If one of my teachers posed a question, I only raised my hand if I was 99.9% sure that I knew the correct answer.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Data science is changing their view of math,” said Jay Sorensen, Oxnard’s educational technology coordinator, who helped design the class. “It It changed their perspective, or their view of what math is, because they maybe didn’t enjoy math or were frustrated with math or hated math before.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory? Maybe on occasion, when you flip through TV channels and land on an episode of “Ancient Aliens.” Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. How confident are you in your ability to tell fact from fiction?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When I came out to my family during my first year of college in the early 2000s, my mom’s immediate concern extended beyond my safety and happiness to my future as an educator. She asked, “But what about your career?” as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. So as she saw the rise of AI tools, she was quick to try them.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. The brutal, sticky heat of Texas summer already had people wiping sweat from their brows and handing out bottled water from ice-filled coolers.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

As an educator reading headline after headline about AI in education, it’s hard to not get lost in an existential tailspin to the tune of Billie Eilish’s “What was I made for?” (if Integrating generative AI into education is complex. if AI can do all of this.)

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Unidos. No need to hop over to Google Translate. Chances are good that if you were one of the 5.3 s bilingual students.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In 2024, if you want to make a dinner reservation, you’re very likely to open an app on your phone, input a few details and then filter your results to see which restaurants have availability for your party size, date and time. If you want to find child care, on the other hand, good luck.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2024

When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. This was before ChatGPT existed, and fewer people were talking about the wonders of AI.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2024

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. That’s what Georgetown University professor Jeanine Turner found in her research about how tech has shaped social relationships.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2024

In the two decades that Jennifer Merriman has been in education, she’s seen a tendency in the field to solve problems by piling more tasks onto teachers who are already straining under the weight of their workloads.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit.

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