eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

As a Language Arts teacher, I’ve found that one of the skills my students need to improve is their basic research skills. The good news is that there are a host of edtech resources to support this. is an excellent resource that helps students learn the basics of almost any topic.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2022

The recent author of the book Critical Thinking , a topic about which he cared deeply, Haber had contributed in significant ways to a variety of important education projects. And he gave me a couple copies of his book on the topic of being a critical voter—which perhaps nicely suggested I had some learning to do myself.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Black hair, we find art, creativity, history and connection. When I come across news reports or a research study that highlights the race-based discrimination that Black students experience in U.S. Black hair carries such dignity and high regard in the Black community that it is often referred to as our crown.

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Neo LMS

JULY 11, 2019

It is used all the time in movies, but also in news-casting, video games, and even photography. And no, we’re not talking about art or film school teachers! Plus, it can enhance various activities in all subjects, from STEM to language arts and social sciences. News and weather reports. Foreign language lessons.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you are wondering how it works in practice, here’s a good example: Duolingo is a free mobile app that helps students to learn foreign languages. Anyone can take grammar, reading, speaking, or writing lessons in dozens of languages, but the entire process is based on gamification. Conclusion.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 14, 2014

Post regular weekly challenges in which students find real world examples of the topic. News bytes- students report a current event, world news, local news, or school event. Charades- same as I Spy but they record themselves acting out something related to the topic for peers to guess. Create examples of idioms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“Instead of devoting more class time to English language arts (ELA), we should be teaching elementary school children more social studies—as in, rich content about history, geography, and civics,” wrote the Fordham Institute’s Amber Northern and Michael Petrilli in a foreword to the social studies study. But it didn’t.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

To this end, I have curated for you this relatively large collection of kids learning apps covering various learning needs and topic areas. With over 250 educational games featuring beloved characters like Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, Rosie’s Rules, and more, kids can explore their favorite topics while learning core skills.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These skills and practices can be used to learn topics in many disciplines. To make computational thinking learning opportunities more inclusive in K–12 systems and districts, schools, teachers and other stakeholders must integrate computational thinking into English Language Arts, social studies, math, science and the arts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Their course covers everything from interpreting data visualizations to understanding publication bias in academic literature to identifying fake news.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

Idea #4: Black Out Poetry in Google Docs ERIC: While still on the topic of docs another neat thing to do is to use the highlight tool but not for highlighting. And students could then insert clip art and animations and speech bubbles. But it’s also a great way to do things like pixel art.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Years before phrases like “fake news” and “alternative facts” made their way into the English lexicon, Alan Miller realized that a time was coming when the truth would need defending. So when his daughter, then 12, brought home 175 handwritten thank you notes from her classmates that day, Miller’s wheels started turning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Oftentimes the learners fail to understand the vocabulary of the book that sets the obstacles for the reading comprehension, or fail to discuss the topic because they lack active vocabulary. The classroom can be a perfect ground for discussions, imagination training, and language improving activities. Forming the Arguments.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I also believe that part of the reason we are still having this debate of phonics versus whole language versus balanced literacy is a matter of definitions. I was trained as a whole language reading teacher, and saw very quickly that my kindergarten students needed more explicit phonics instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

This is important because students need background knowledge about a topic to be able to understand a text about it, and the more background knowledge they have, research has shown, the more likely it is that they will be able to demonstrate the skills that U.S. They develop similar skills as those that U.S. schools assess.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

First, in order to develop an education plan for deaf and hard of hearing students, teachers must learn about the student’s language background. What’s their exposure to auditory language? At what age did the student start using sign language, if at all? How many languages are used at home? Does anyone sign at home?

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

Black History Month is a time to highlight the people who have not only created foundational innovations, art, and achievements, but also organized and protested for equal rights and freedoms. Choose several exhibits or resources about art or music that students can respond to, before and after getting some context.

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Neo LMS

MAY 9, 2019

When school or work is difficult, the best news to tell a parent, child or adult is “it’s because you have dyslexia”. Teachers are trained in the phonological (sound structure), morphological (form of words), and orthographical (writing convention) structure of the language. This unlocks doors to self-understanding”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Describe the data set.”

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 29, 2015

The mix of art, dialogue, character expressions, and frames engages learners and is brain-friendly. Watch the recording of my webinar on this topic here ! Explore the language in jokes. Tell the news. Make Beliefs Comix - Two, three and four panel comics that you can create in multiple languages. Nicholas Cage.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We imagine that some of you, especially teachers and school administrators, have encountered narratives about how COVID-19 has devastated learning and created new anxieties for students. News headlines dwell on the risks, challenges and deprivations experienced by students, crystallized in the ubiquitous phrase, “learning loss.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

My news organization, The Hechinger Report, recognized the importance of Hanford’s reporting and immediately republished a print version of the story. The concept now called balanced literacy arose in the 1990s as a compromise between the two prevailing camps of reading instruction: phonics and what is known as whole language.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Nilsson’s course is rare in that the entire curriculum combines coding and English language arts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Founded in 2000, Achieve3000 offers online literacy tools for a range of students, from English language learners in schools to working adults. Actively Learn’s library includes 30,000 digital texts on subjects covering topics across English language arts, science and social studies subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every time I turn on the news, I think about my eighth-graders. I, Mr. Often, what they hear isn’t reflective of their actual beliefs, but they nevertheless tend to echo the viewpoints they hear at home or talking points from partisan news sources. The syllabus for my class was based heavily on civic history and government.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

So it's a nice combo of all of those topics. And those were the biggest topics that I found. So let's shift to another topic that I'm personally passionate about which is I personally have some concerns with the anthropomorphism of AI. And so do you, what is your opinion on the language we use around AI?

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

If you're looking for more information about bringing media literacy into your classroom, we have tons of great resources and articles to help: News and Media Literacy Resource Center -- Here you'll find the best news and media literacy resources from around the web, as curated by our editors. Brightstorm.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

They asked for more course choices, including classes in engineering, coding and additional languages like Arabic. Middle school should be a place where “we can talk about struggles at home like depression and anxiety,” said Sudikshya Dhaurali a 13-year-old student at Western Middle School for the Arts in Louisville, Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2018

A student at Summit K2, in El Cerrito, California, works on an art project while listening to music. About one-fifth don’t speak English fluently and receive services as English language learners. Leave this field empty if you're human: In her English language arts class, however, Hulac says she is already seeing positive changes.

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Discovery Education

AUGUST 16, 2022

From learning all about idioms to being able to identify the setting of any story, these educational, animated music videos make learning Language Arts fun and unforgettable. Discover how this series of catchy and informative tunes transforms language and grammar into something to sing about. Learn More. Learn More. -->.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 22, 2015

We often get news updates from the internet. Trending topics are discussed on Twitter. Photographers publish their photographs online so the world can see their works of art. Digital storytelling is similar to the traditional way - focusing on a specific topic. Everything we do today is somehow digital-based.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 12, 2016

I first wrote about word clouds in 2010 , but six years later I’m updating the topic with updated apps, tools, and ideas. Use word clouds to get students to: Make inferences about a topic before reading or exploring the unit or chapter. Guess the news story or current event from a word cloud of an article.

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N2Y

JANUARY 31, 2020

All Unique Learning System and News‑2‑You lessons and activities are interactive, whether accessed on a computer or tablet or projected on an interactive board. Unique Learning System and News‑2‑You provide links to different resources to use during lessons, such as websites and videos. Technology Integration.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Carla Savinon, now a sophomore, works on a painting in her visual arts class last spring at Boston’s Margarita Muñiz Academy, where arts are a core component of the curriculum. BOSTON — The Margarita Muñiz Academy, a public high school in Boston, is best known for its dual language immersion program. But what is it?

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

Red and white and standing nearly four feet tall, Meccanoid can be programmed to move and talk about a wide range of topics—including the Digital Pioneers Academy. “We Last fall, students in Goslee’s class learned to code on Scratch, the MIT-developed, block-based programming language designed for children. She recently moved to D.C.

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N2Y

AUGUST 13, 2020

According to our scope and sequence, the first thing we are meant to teach in middle school English language arts is “Citing Evidence and Analyzing Central Idea/Theme.” Seeing this result was great news though! And even better news? Think of a topic that interests your child.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Currently reaching across more than 410,000 podcasts and 24 million episodes, Listen Notes is searchable by people, places, and topics. Listen Notes is searchable in multiple languages. Podcasters often present engaging models of the art of storytelling. Listen Notes is a search engine for podcasts.

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