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7 most popular EdSurge articles, as voted by our community.
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EdSurge on Edtech
The Benefits of Online Learning Are Also Its Weaknesses. That’s Where Advisors Help.
The last time I taught in a physical college classroom was in 1999, when my adult students shook off their weariness from a day of working and taking ...
How Do We Make Edtech More Effective? (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do With Technology)
Kathy Noble was my son Colin’s special-education teacher. Back in 1999, when Colin was 10, my conversations to date with doctors, therapists and ...
EdSurge on Education
The Key to Better Student Engagement Is Letting Them Show You How They Learn
A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. She asked her students who were ...
EdSurge on Instructional Design
Why Instructional Design Must Focus on Learning Outcomes, Not Learning Activities
It’s no secret that kids learn better when teachers provide learning activities that keep them engaged. Teachers work tirelessly to plan engaging ...
EdSurge on Patience
How Coding Teaches Virtuous Skills Like Patience
Editor’s note: In an excerpt from her upcoming book, professor and inventor Marina Umaschi Bers shows how coding can help students learn human ...
EdSurge on Speech Recognition
An Edtech User’s Glossary to Speech Recognition and AI in the Classroom
In a recent white paper, former Scholastic president of education Margery Mayer dubbed 2021 the “year of speech recognition” in education. And she may ...
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The Pandemic Has Revealed What Really Matters in Education. (Spoiler: It’s Not Tests.)
A few weeks ago, I participated in a webinar with K-12 students, parents and teachers about how online learning is going. You might be surprised to ...
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