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Online Learning Is Not the Enemy

Edsurge

The need to manage a single digitized space for teaching and learning often evolved into a shell game as they tried to bet on which moving part would contribute to an optimal learning experience, with limited support. We shouldn’t expect that of our students. And we shouldn’t do it ourselves, either.

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Game-based platform teaches computer science, coding

eSchool News

Marvin Evins, computer science instructor at Gage Park, said, “Teaching computer science is challenging because you have to get beyond the abstract and rather dry learning material available, and there is no single standard curriculum. My students love CodeCombat because it makes learning to code fun!

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

Digital learning content. Learning materials and resources that can be displayed on a digital device and shared electronically with other users. Digital learning content includes both open and or commercial content. Student survey . The surveys must be research-based, valid, and reliable.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.