1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1207+ words) A veteran educator says: "Edtech did not fail us. We failed edtech." Caption: Drazen Zigic / Shutterstock In the early 2000s, classrooms were simple. One desktop computer sat in the back of the room, usually reserved for Accelerated Reader quizzes, and a…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (715+ words) How to keep teachers in charge when AI does the grading. Two school days. That's all it took. In 2024, I chaperoned field trips two days in a row, for two different grade levels, and came back to roughly 450 ungraded assignments....

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (302+ words) is a podcast series from Ed Surge Solutions Studio, hosted by Carl Hooker. Ed Surge Solutions Studio collaborates with organizations in the edtech sector, crafting custom content that illuminates new paths in learning and explores the evolving landscape of education....

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (285+ words) Learning by making has been around since long before edtech'just think about what the adventurous explorers or intrepid settlers of yore would have thought of "Do-It-Yourself." But with thousands of kid-friendly tech tools and a whole World Wide Web of…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago  (314+ words) Personalized learning means different things to different people. Visit different schools with different models, and chances are they will all tell you they are using some form of personalized learning. But what does "personalized learning" mean, and how do schools…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (399+ words) Community colleges have been referred to as "America's best-kept secret," often operating as unbound engines for developing and training workforces, synced to the needs of the regions they serve. From tech to manufacturing, community colleges are partnering with local businesses…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (170+ words) Keeping the attention of students during lectures has always been hard. And after COVID-19 disruptions that meant years of Zoom teaching, many professors say things are harder now. We've been exploring this rise in student disengagement " and what creative professors…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (630+ words) I am going to start where no good teacher should start, with a $10 word: epistemology. It refers to a branch of philosophy that explores how we know what we know " something scholars like John Dewey argued is deeply tied to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (217+ words) What New Mexico taught me about caring for children and families. I'm not the first to say this, but it's a strange and heartbreaking time to be a teacher and parent of young children." As a recent transplant to New…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (311+ words) Two decades in, and it's abundantly clear that one of the most effective ways to nurture the 21st century's trademark skills'creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration'is by creating opportunities for kids to do what kids do naturally: play. So we've crafted this…...