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If Smart Glasses Are Coming, What Will That Mean for Classrooms?
When Meta held its annual conference at the end of September, the tech giant announced it is betting...
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How Boredom Helped My Students Overcome Apathy and Build Executive Functioning
We’re halfway through “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler, and we’ve arrived at a crucial turni...
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Looking Back on the Long, Bumpy Rise of Online College Courses
When Robert Ubell first applied for a job at a university's online program back in the late ’90s, he...
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How This District Tech Coach Still Makes Time to Teach — in a Multi-Sensory Immersive Room
Miguel Quinteros spent over a decade as something of a tech-savvy teacher — one not afraid to try ne...
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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future
Today’s students will enter careers that haven’t even been imagined yet. With AI and automation resh...
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College Students Are Doing Less Homework. Should Instructors Change How They Assign It?
Encouraging students to complete work outside of class has always been a struggle. But many college ...
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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math
Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored. A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in...
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For Latino Students, the Fear of Being Left Behind in AI and STEM Jobs
Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. Yet few are likel...
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A Teaching Mentor Once Told Me: ‘Our Ancestors Want Us to Rest’
My colleagues, friends and family often praise my relentless pursuit of excellence, especially in my...
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Inside an Effort to Build an AI Assistant for Designing Course Materials
There’s a push among AI developers to create an AI tutor, and some see that as a key use case for to...
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Selecting Effective Edtech in the Age of AI
The rise of AI promises new solutions to long-standing challenges. It also introduces some challenge...
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Two States Are Responsible for Most of the Nation’s School Book Bans
This story was originally published by The 19th. The number of books banned in public schools over t...
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Should AI Bots Do Science?
Cong Lu has long been fascinated by how to use technology to make his job as a research scientist mo...
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Which Language 'Superpowers' Do Bilingual Students Bring to U.S. Schools?
Los datos ya llegaron, y revelan algo interesante sobre los estudiantes bilingües de los Estados Uni...
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Supporting Young Students’ Social-Emotional Needs in the Post-COVID Era
The COVID-19 pandemic has left a lasting impact on students’ social-emotional well-being. As schools...
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As Student Smartphone Use Increases, So Does Our Need for Consistent School Policies
Each fall, every teacher must wage a few key wars with a new class of students. In my classroom, one...
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To Address the ‘Homework Gap,’ Is It Time to Revamp Federal Connectivity Programs?
One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic was that many families didn’t have reliable internet acc...
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Cash-Starved Districts Are Turning to Four-Day School Weeks. Will That Harm Students?
The need was becoming dire. A school district in Brighton, in the Denver metro area of Colorado, was...
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Get Started, Then Get Better: Prioritizing Action in a PLC
“Don’t do that.” Those were the words out of Dr. Richard DuFour’s mouth more than a decade ago as I ...
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States Turn to Employers to Boost Child Care Benefits
This story was originally published by The 19th. As efforts to expand the child tax credit and provi...
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