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Can Schools Afford an AI-First Future?

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EdSurge Tech 1d ago higher-ed
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Most conversations about generative artificial intelligence in schools eventually zoom in on using AI in the classroom. Before districts redesign teaching and learning around AI, they may need to answer a more fundamental question: Can…
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Why College Degrees Matter in the Age of AI

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EdSurge Tech 14d ago higher-ed
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For the past few years, our nation has been flooded with headlines declaring the demise of the college degree. This trend was exacerbated by COVID-19, which accelerated a decline in college interest . I understand, really, I do. Tuition…
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Why College Degrees Matter in the Age of AI

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EdSurge Tech 14d ago higher-ed
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For the past few years, our nation has been flooded with headlines declaring the demise of the college degree. This trend was exacerbated by COVID-19, which accelerated a decline in college interest . I understand, really, I do. Tuition…
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Recess Took a Break in Some Schools. A Push is On to Bring It Back.

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EdSurge Tech 15d ago higher-ed
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Increased attendance, better attention in classrooms, stronger friendships, and more engaged citizens – these are not a long wishlist of preferred traits in an elementary school student. They are what some advocates believe are a direct…
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Recess Took a Break in Some Schools. A Push is On to Bring It Back.

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EdSurge Tech 15d ago higher-ed
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Increased attendance, better attention in classrooms, stronger friendships, and more engaged citizens – these are not a long wishlist of preferred traits in an elementary school student. They are what some advocates believe are a direct…
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Latest Canvas Attack Shows Schools Still Struggle With Cybersecurity

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EdSurge Tech 30d ago higher-ed
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A cyberattack against one of the world’s largest digital education platforms has forced attention onto the vulnerability of U.S. schools’ data. Instructure, the company behind Canvas, a learning management system used by thousands of…
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Latest Canvas Attack Shows Schools Still Struggle With Cybersecurity

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EdSurge Tech 30d ago higher-ed
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A cyberattack against one of the world’s largest digital education platforms has forced attention onto the vulnerability of U.S. schools’ data. Instructure, the company behind Canvas, a learning management system used by thousands of…
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The Digital Accessibility Deadline Is Here. Schools Aren’t Ready.

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EdSurge Tech 56d ago higher-ed
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A big civil rights deadline that impacts schools and vendors will hit this month. Federal law has required accessibility for people with disabilities for decades, says Glenda Sims, chief information accessibility officer at Deque Systems,…
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As a Tool of Productivity, AI Can Make the Effort to Learn More Meaningful

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EdSurge Tech 69d ago higher-ed
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I want to share a story of struggle. Actually, two kinds of struggle. My father completed his doctorate at the University of Utah in the early 1970s. For his dissertation, he ran a statistical analysis on genealogical records to determine…
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I Tell My Students Writing Is Hard. I Still Ask Them to Do It Anyway.

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EdSurge Tech 71d ago higher-ed
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My life has changed so much since my time as a Voices of Change fellow during the 2023 school year. As I wrote in my final essay of the fellowship , the beautiful, imperfect school I loved and helped build had closed. With the support of…
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Study: Delaying Kindergarten Has Few Longterm Benefits

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EdSurge Tech 78d ago higher-ed
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In addition to screen time , the type of school to attend, the content children consume and the food they eat, a new concern cropped up for parents over the last few years: Whether to keep their children back a year from entering…
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Screen-Free Schools? Some Legislators Push for a New Normal

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EdSurge Tech 94d ago higher-ed
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When Kim Whitman’s son was in kindergarten in 2015, it was the first time their school district rolled out a one-to-one device program, assigning an electronic device to every child. Beyond using it in the classroom, the children were…
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With Teens Comfortable Confiding in AI, Should Schools Embrace It for Mental Health Care?

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EdSurge Tech 100d ago higher-ed
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The alert came around 7 p.m. Brittani Phillips checked her phone. A middle school counselor in Putnam County, Florida, Phillips receives messages from an artificial intelligence-enabled therapy platform that students use during nonschool…
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Universal Pre-K Is a Hot Policy Idea. But What About Kindergarten?

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EdSurge Tech 105d ago higher-ed
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Even casual observers of the early childhood space likely noticed the massive push for expanding access to care and education programs over the last year, most notably with universal preschool options . But a less splashy effort has been…
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What Students Gain When Teachers — Not AI — Grade Students’ Work

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EdSurge Tech 107d ago higher-ed
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This article is part of the collection: Teaching Tech: Navigating Learning and AI in the Industrial Revolution. During our research project on teaching and learning with AI, Mi Aniefuna talked to a lawyer-turned-teacher-turned AI ethicist.…
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What George Washington Can Teach Us About Grace in the Wake of Violence

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EdSurge Tech 120d ago higher-ed
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This year, Americans are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence . That statement of foundational political principles and national identity in the summer of 1776 capped off a year of armed conflict marked by…
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How a Small Louisiana School Misled Families and Thwarted Students’ College Dreams

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EdSurge Tech 122d ago higher-ed
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The story Mike Landry told about his students, who were majority African American, sounded depressingly familiar: poor, raised on the wrong side of the tracks, ignored, forgotten. But it made the rest of their story seem even more…
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I Was a First-Generation Elite Private School Graduate. My Kids Won’t Follow My Path.

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EdSurge Tech 129d ago higher-ed
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As we drove across the bridge that read, “Trenton Makes, the World Takes,” the red lights brightened my worried face. It took 20 minutes to drive back home from my admissions interview, but the Delaware River felt like the width of the…
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