Tag: EdSurge Podcast
How AI Could Bring Big Changes to Education — And How to Avoid Worst-Case Scenarios
It has been a year since the release of ChatGPT, and educators are still scrambling to respond to this new kind of AI tool. Much of the [more…]
Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?
Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “studenting,” but not learning much. At that critical moment when a teacher [more…]
What a Popular TikTok Channel Reveals About the Stress of College Admissions
Daniel Lim reads through the resumes of prospective college students with the excited patter of a color commentator at an NFL game. On his popular TikTok channel, [more…]
How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist
After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental [more…]
How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots
Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. But it’s not because students aren’t good at [more…]
How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms
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 [more…]
Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies
When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s [more…]
Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?
For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset. While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted [more…]
Mockumentary Explores College Admissions — and Post-Pandemic Student Life
The college students who give campus tours for the admissions office may sound like confident ambassadors, but they sometimes have their own doubts about whether they’ve made [more…]
Today’s Kids Are Inundated With Tech. When Does It Help — and Hurt?
The pandemic has largely changed public perceptions about the appropriate use of technology for young people, argues Katie Davis, associate professor in the information school at the [more…]
Group Project Horror Stories — and How to Avoid Them
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 [more…]
The Power of Storytelling for Youth
For decades, a nonprofit group called The Moth has produced workshops, events and a popular radio show where people tell transformative stories from their lives. And in [more…]
Who Does School Reform Serve?
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 [more…]
Why Legacy Admissions May Be on the Way Out
Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling this summer striking down the consideration of race in college admissions, attention has turned to other preferences college leaders [more…]
How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research
Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard. It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In [more…]
Why Class Diversity Can Be ‘Invisible’ at Colleges
“Andrew” grew up in poverty, and neither of his parents went to college. “Carl” grew up in an affluent and well-educated family, with a father who rose [more…]
How AI Can Help Educators Test Whether Their Teaching Materials Work
Companies like Amazon and Facebook have systems that continually respond to how users interact with their apps to make the user experience easier. What if educators could [more…]
Making Children’s Media about STEM More Inclusive
Kareem Edouard has been doing research for years on how to make children’s media more inclusive. And these days he’s putting those ideas into practice — on [more…]
Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?
Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. It was a hands-on [more…]
Should Schools Adopt ‘Cellphone Jails’?
It was boiling, and there was lots of disgruntled chatter. It was 2018, on the first day of seventh grade. The administration at my school — the [more…]
Has It Become Harder to Connect With College Students?
Many professors are struggling to connect with their students these days. First the pandemic forced emergency remote learning, where professors had fewer avenues to see and interact [more…]
