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Survey shows skyrocketing AI use in education
20 hours ago — Educator confidence is inching up since pandemic; generative AI use shows five-fold increase. Key points: AI use is on the rise among educators, thanks to increased confidence. AI use guide helps students navigate AI in learning. AI’s transformative role in accessibility. For more news on AI in the classroom, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub.
Protecting our students: The urgency of securing education data
1 day ago — Schools across the U.S. are already seeing an uptick in cyber threats, making it clear that protecting student data should be a top priority. Identity theft begins before graduation. The frequency of data breaches in the education sector surged in 2023, compromising the private information of students, parents, and educators.
E-rate funding supports essential learning at a critical time, survey …
3 days ago — E-rate’s vital role: Over 88 percent of respondents affirmed that E-rate funding is essential in ensuring equitable access to internet services, particularly for underserved and rural communities. “The E-rate program is crucial for modern education. This program ensures schools can access vital technology for student learning.
How to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Schools
6 days ago — Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of students who are chronically absent—defined as missing just under one month of class—has doubled to 26 percent nationally, reaching crisis levels and threatening the educational foundation of our nation’s youth. Chronic absenteeism is estimated to be responsible for up to 27 percent of the overall decline in math test scores and a shocking 45 ...
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Oct 29, 2024 — Pearson Expands College and Early Career Programming to More Than Half of Connections Academy Schools in the Country. September 20, 2024 by ESchool News Staff. Hoboken, NJ. – Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L) and its Connections Academy, the fully online public school program serving K-12 students, announced today the ...
Digital Learning Archives - eSchool News
Oct 30, 2024 — Skibidi anarchy: The role of technology in post-pandemic classrooms. September 17, 2024 by John Jennings, eSpark Learning. Digital learning tools are charged with meeting legitimate classroom needs and appealing to students in ways that the old guard just doesn’t do anymore. IT Innovations.
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Oct 29, 2024 — Insights from educators: Priorities for 2023-2024. Key points: Education news is full of trends and predictions for the new school year, but hearing from the folks doing the work is a more direct path to understanding what educators need at this moment. Heading into the 2023-2024 school year, K-12 teachers and principals are sharing their ...
Educational Leadership Archives - eSchool News
Oct 29, 2024 — The psychology of Disruptive Innovation. September 11, 2024 by Thomas Arnett, Clayton Christensen Institute. By seeking out the right circumstances, education leaders can create the conditions for new models of schooling to emerge, evolve, and eventually transform mainstream conventional education. STEM & STEAM Trends.
High school students say AI will change the workforce - eSchool …
Apr 18, 2024 — About 40 percent said generative AI will change the world as we know it today, impacting almost every industry and career, and that it will be increasingly important to master generative AI tools to succeed academically and in the future workforce. Nearly half of the students polled expressed some degree of concern about potential loss of jobs ...