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How VR Can Be an ‘Empathy Machine’ for Education
The biggest reason to use VR in education is to tap into a student’s emotional response through immersive experiences, argues Maya Georgieva, directo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Is It Time for a National Conversation About Eliminating Letter Grades?
There’s a growing movement to drop letter grades in favor of new systems that focus on mastery of material rather than chasing points. But opponents …
2 years, 2 months ago
Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?
Social studies has been ‘deprioritized’ for decades, in favor of STEM fields, according to some educators. Could AI essay grading help improve the qu…
2 years, 2 months ago
What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms
There are key junctures in education that are especially important for helping students feel they belong in school or college. And new research point…
2 years, 2 months ago
How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Goes to Campus? (Doubting College, Ep. 3)
There’s growing skepticism of higher education, complete with popular memes on social media that “college is a scam.” Experts in policy and marketing…
2 years, 2 months ago
An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars
A longtime educator worries that the raging culture wars in education create toxic environments that hurt academic learning. He’s started a podcast t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?
Could virtual reality be the key to teaching indigenous ways of knowing to a broad population of students? Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in edu…
2 years, 3 months ago
How Growing Skepticism of College Is Making Students Savvier Edu Shoppers (Doubting College, Ep. 2)
In part two of our podcast series Doubting College, which explores the growing skepticism of higher ed, we talk to students and counselors at a publi…
2 years, 3 months ago
AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?
A recent study ranked the top professions that are likely to be disrupted by ChatGPT and other new AI technologies, and most of them require college …
2 years, 3 months ago
What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?
Did the education theories that drive today’s schools and teaching practices get off track and do they need a reset — one that gets back to earlier d…
2 years, 3 months ago