Tag: books
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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices
[ad_1] How is AI currently utilized in higher education? As of fall 2023, we are still in the early stages of figuring out what AI integration means for higher ed. In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do. We look at examples of output from large language ... -
How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms
[ad_1] ST. PAUL, Minn. — Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. During debate exercises, there’s been a “consolidation” around points of view that are more ... -
How My School Turned Tragedy Into an Opportunity for Student and Family Engagement
[ad_1] Imagine not only waking up to a pandemic, forced into an isolated space without the physical and emotional support you need for learning, but also discovering that the place you call home has been deemed unlivable. This was the reality for many of the students and their families at Luther J. Price Middle School ... -
Group Project Horror Stories — and How to Avoid Them
[ad_1] If you’ve ever been a student, then you’ve probably done a group project at some point. And you most likely also have a horror story about a group project that went terribly wrong. That trend was clear when EdSurge recently took a microphone to one campus and asked several students to share their group ... -
New Chinese research examines how to get drones to target without GPS
[ad_1] A recent academic paper out of China proposes a new method for controlling drones and steering them to targets in environments where GPS is under attack, a new sign of the growing importance of drones in conflicts where adversaries have advanced electromagnetic jamming capabilities. The paper, published at the end of July in the ... -
A New Way to Personalize Learning, Thanks to AI
[ad_1] In the dynamic landscape of education, truly personalized learning has been nearly impossible to achieve. Classroom teachers, constrained by limited resources and standardized curricula, often struggle to cater to the diverse learning needs of their students. For years, educational technology has promised to fill that gap, but that promise has remained largely unfulfilled. Now, ... -
Who Does School Reform Serve?
[ad_1] Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting ... -
Black Literature Gave Me the Freedom to Learn, and Now I’m Giving It Back to My Students
[ad_1] I’ve loved literature since I was a little girl. I was always eager for a new book, a new word, a new understanding, a new connection, a new… knowing. I’ve read about what happens to a dream deferred. I’ve read about southern trees that bore strange fruit. I’ve read about why the caged bird ...











