Howard Dvorsky

By Courtney Parker Lopez, Mother Over the past month, as students across Texas headed back to school, more than 85,000 families began a school year unlike any before it by using the state’s new education savings account program for the first time. Their choices have already become part of a familiar debate over school choice — who benefits, who loses, and what it means for public schools.  I’m one...[Read More]

Explore how AI role play can encourage students to ask better questions, investigate historical events, evaluate evidence, and develop critical thinking skills through guided classroom activities. The post Why AI Role Play Should Teach Students to Question, Not Just Answer first appeared on EdTechReview.

More research would help schools make better decisions about AI use in classrooms, educators say.

For several years, federal pandemic relief funds helped school districts across the U.S. expand “high-impact” (or “high-dosage”) tutoring programs that improved student learning. Now that the main source of funding has expired, many education leaders are scrambling to keep those programs afloat.  Between March 2020 and March 2021, Congress allocated nearly $190.5 billion to public education throug...[Read More]

In a previous blog, I named how as humans we tend to default to scarcity thinking. This is mostly a survival instinct. We hoard, protect turf, box out, exclude, and create arbitrary limiting functions. In education, this shows up everywhere: in lottery schools, in college admissions panic, in fights over ESA funding that pit public schools against families. Education leaders are duking it out over...[Read More]

Yasmin Sarwar explains how the teenage body clock affects sleep, memory, and exam preparation, and why healthy sleep habits deserve a place in every student’s revision timetable. The post Yasmin Sarwar on the Teenage Body Clock and Why Sleep Belongs on the Revision Timetable first appeared on EdTechReview.

Students need productive struggle to grasp a new language. Here’s where AI can—and can’t—fit in.

A few years ago, I had a student in my seventh-grade homeroom named Billie who was bright, funny and a talented artist. But over the course of the school year, I noticed Billie became increasingly distracted and sullen whenever they were away from their Chromebook.  When they were on the device, their ability to self-regulate and stay focused on the task at hand was nearly nonexistent. Almost as i...[Read More]

Principals are using AI to help reduce student absenteeism, set teacher goals, and more.

​Students who have had contact with Child Protective Services (CPS) by age 15 are at greater risk of missing school for both excused (health-related) and unexcused (truancy) reasons than students with no CPS contact, according to research published last month in Children and Youth Services Review.  Some estimates suggest that over one-third of children in the U.S. undergo a CPS investigation by th...[Read More]

AI tools can now generate a lesson in seconds, and the result usually sounds convincing. But teachers and district leaders still lack a reliable way to confirm that generated content aligns with state standards or what research says about how students learn. Learning Commons, a nonprofit backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, believes it has built that missing foundation through a newly launche...[Read More]

Taz has published parent guides featuring interactive science simulations, coding activities, and alternatives to passive scrolling to help families explore STEM learning together. The post Taz publishes parent guides for exploring science and coding together first appeared on EdTechReview.