EdSurge Podcast

A weekly podcast about the future of learning. Join EdSurge journalists as they sit down with educators, innovators and scholars for frank and in-depth conversations.

EdSurge Podcast is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 503 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts EdSurge Podcast, a general show with 503 episodes published.

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  The Reading Reforms That Stopped at Third Grade

  Sep 16, 202625 minS0

  <p>The lowest-performing middle school readers aren't just behind, they're falling further behind every year, even as reading scores recover elsewhere.</p><p>On This Week with EdSurge, NWEA's Megan Kuhfeld shares new research that explains why the K-3 literacy laws that fixed early reading aren't reaching the middle school.</p><p>Then Dacia Toll, who spent years running schools before co-founding the AI literacy platform Coursemojo, describes what she calls the comprehension wall, the point where a middle schooler can read every word on a page and still miss the meaning, and makes the case for AI tools built...

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  Two Student Questions, Two Teacher Responses

  Sep 9, 202628 minS0

  <p>Two Voices of Change Fellows had the same kind of moment this year, when a student comment that could have been brushed off as attitude turned out to be a warning sign. On This Week with EdSurge, Melinda Medina explains what happened when a student answered a literature question with "I use ChatGPT, how am I supposed to know that?" and what it revealed about students quietly outsourcing their own thinking. Then Beth Yirga describes the eighth grader who asked her, "If AI will do everything, then what's the point of learning?" and how that question sent her looking...

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  Two New Rules, Two Teacher Workarounds

  Sep 2, 202622 minS0

  <p>New guidance was supposed to help teachers make sense of screen time. New laws were supposed to keep phones out of the way. On This Week with EdSurge we look at what happens when teachers are left to make sense of rules that were never built with their classrooms in mind. Adam Stone talks with pre-K and kindergarten teachers about the guidance that excludes them, and civics teacher Dan Clark explains why he thinks Missouri got its phone ban wrong.</p><p>WHAT YOU'LL LEARN</p>The American Academy of Pediatrics updated its screen time guidance for the first...

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  Does New Federal Edtech Guidance Go Far Enough?

  Aug 26, 202621 minS0

  <p>The Department of Education just issued its first major classroom technology guidance in years, urging schools to judge tools by outcomes rather than screen time. Digital Promise president and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard and outcomes-based contracting expert Brittany Miller join This Week with EdSurge to break down what the new Dear Colleague Letter gets right, what it leaves out, and what happens now that Washington has handed implementation to the states. They agree the letter marks real progress, but they do not agree on how much it accomplishes.</p><p>WHAT YOU'LL LEARN</p>The Dear Colleague Letter draws a...

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  Assignments, Invoices, and the AI Fix

  Aug 19, 202626 minS0

  <p>This week, two guests trace the true cost of AI, one in the classroom and one behind the scenes. Michael Hernandez explains how he taught himself to code so he could build a free tool that flags weak assignments before students ever think about cheating. Mi Aniefuna follows the electricity powering that same technology, tracing the invoice that lands on a district's desk long after the contract is signed. Together, their stories ask what schools are really paying for when they bring AI into the building.</p><p>WHAT YOU'LL LEARN</p>Michael Hernandez used vibe coding, describing an...

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