Howard Dvorsky

Shownotes Transcript Guest Bio Shorts Content Links Youtube Channel As someone deeply passionate about the intersection of education, equity, and community-driven change, I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring you today’s episode of the Getting Smart Podcast. I’m joined by Dr. William Jackson, founder of Village of Wisdom, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Black parents and fostering ...[Read More]

Early on August 8, 2023, Hurricane Dora drove unusually strong winds across the seaside town of Lahaina, HI. At dawn, a downed power line sparked a brushfire. By the afternoon, most of the town was in flames. 2,200 homes were destroyed and more than 100 people had died. In Yancey County, NC, on the evening of September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene was predicted to bring heavy rainfall to the mountai...[Read More]

The goal is to teach students to harness AI to bolster learning and preserve their work’s integrity.

Though not a replacement for educators, it can be a powerful ally, writes Jean-Claude Brizard.

By: Mason Pashia and Bobbi Macdonald The following is the fictional 2030 mayoral Inaugural Address that paved the way for learning ecosystems and our 2040 learning future. Check out more blogs from the future here.  My friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens, Tonight, as I stand before you – humbled by your trust, lifted by our shared hopes and dreams – I see more than just a town or a city. I see...[Read More]

I’ve been teaching long enough to recognize when something fundamental is shifting in the classroom. Lately, that shift sounds like a single word echoing through my courses: why. Why are we doing this? Why does it matter? Why should I care? At first, it can sound like pushback, the kind of challenge that might once have been mistaken for defiance. But I don’t see it that way. When Gen Z students a...[Read More]

Microsoft is moving its Mesh 3D meeting capabilities into Teams through a new immersive events feature, now generally available.

When completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students are grasping mathematical concepts correctly. New AI projects in development aim to automate that process. The idea is to train machines to catch and predict the errors students make when studying math, to better enable teachers to correct student mis...[Read More]

By: Chris Unger and Michael Crawford When Shelby, a high school student from Monett, Missouri, toured a cadaver lab through her GO CAPS program, she discovered a passion that would shape her future. That single experience led her to choose Missouri Southern State University specifically for its cadaver lab, where she initiated research on the phrenic nerve and sympathetic nervous system that resul...[Read More]

In the American education system, appropriate and sufficient support is too often a destination reached only after a tragedy. For students with learning differences, we rely on a “wait to fail” model, a system that offers tailored intervention and meaningful opportunity only after a child has fallen significantly behind their peers. We treat assessment as an autopsy of failure rather than an early...[Read More]

Data protection platform AvePoint has unveiled a command center to help organizations monitor artificial intelligence agents, addressing security risks and rising expenses as organizations deploy more automated AI tools.

Device-based learning is no longer “new,” but many schools still lack a coherent playbook for managing it.