Latest articles by Erik Ofgang
5 Tips for Teaching Yoga in Schools From A Superintendent of The Year
Advice for successfully building yoga in schools from Massachusetts 2024 Superintendent of the year Barbara Malkas
Instead of Banning AI, ASU is Encouraging It With OpenAI Partnership
ASU has partnered with OpenAI to study AI to better understand how it can most effectively be used by students and faculty for teaching, learning, research, and more.
5 Reasons To Teach With Taylor Swift
We don’t know about you but this advice for teaching with Taylor Swift has us feeling 22
Study: Writing by Hand Leads To Better Brain Connectivity
Students writing by hand have more active brains than when they typing, researchers recently found.
Sora: What Educators Need to Know About The Video Version of ChatGPT
Sora, OpenAI’s new tool, can create photorealistic videos based on user prompts, which has many implications for teachers.
Cracking the 'Chicken and Egg' Dilemma: How Equitable Internships Can Propel Recent Graduates into Successful Careers
The founding director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation shares tips for promoting internships that are equitable and accessible to all.
Tech Tools Can Provide Premade Flashcards For Students. That’s Not a Good Thing, Says New Research
Students who generate their own flashcards instead of using premade flashcard sets may improve their test scores by roughly the equivalent of a letter grade
Best Free QR Code Sites for Teachers
These free sites to generate QR codes can be a great tool for teachers to distribute class material and other tasks
How to Help Students Overcome AI Hiring Algorithms
Whether educators and their students get hired will increasingly be influenced by AI. Here’s what to know about bias and how you can beat the algorithms.
2024 Edtech Trends: Authenticity, Better Tools, and More AI (Of Course)
Looking ahead to see what edtech trends may emerge in 2024
Teaching With the Apple Vision Pro
It’s early days for the Apple Vision Pro, but educators already see the new technology's potential as well as its limitations.
It’s Counterintuitive But Pretesting Consistently Works, Says Research
Research and tips for implementing pretesting in the classroom from Steven C. Pan, director of the Learning Sciences Laboratory at the National University of Singapore
Duet AI For Teaching: 6 Tips from Google’s Workspace for Education Manager
Duet AI is now available through Google Education. Vivek Chachcha, product manager for Google Workspace for Education, share tips for teaching with Duet.
The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program Could End. Here’s Why That Might Not Be Bad for Schools
John Harrington, chief executive officer of Funds for Learning, discusses Affordable Connectivity and E-Rate.
Teachers Love 4-Day School Weeks. Do They Work?
Four-day school weeks are increasingly being offered as a way to recruit teachers, but the research is mixed on the advantages and disadvantages of the schedule. Now some states are reconsidering it.
The Research-Practice Divide is Real. Here's How To Overcome It.
Easy-to-implement strategies for both teachers and researchers to bridge the research-practice divide, from UMass Professor Torrey Trust
The 2024 National Educational Technology Plan is Out: Here’s What You Need to Know
Released by the U.S. Department of Education for the first time since 2016, the new National Educational Technology Plan focuses on the digital access divide, digital use divide, and digital design divide.
I Created A Version of ChatGPT To Tutor College Students. Here’s What Happened
OpenAI's new GPTs allow educators to create versions of ChatGPT that are designed to meet their needs and those of their students.
AI: Data Privacy Friend or Foe? How can AI be both a challenge and a solution for data privacy?
Teaching Forensic STEM Lessons
Teaching chemistry and STEM by using crime scene-style forensic investigations
What OpenAI’s New GPT Store Means for Educators
OpenAI is making customized versions of ChatGPT much more easily available, including many education-specific tools.
She Wrote A Book About AI in Education. Here’s How AI Helped
Alana Winnick was able to write "The Generative Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education" in under a year because she used AI to make her writing process more efficient.
New Research: 16 Writing Interventions That Work
Digital tools and computer-assisted instruction are among the writing instruction strategies that work in middle and high school, according to a new study
