eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Nominations were judged by a panel of education experts, including Laura Ascione, eSchool News editorial director, and Eileen Belastock, CETL, Belastock Consulting. Topics range from immigration to kids without fathers. The kids do everything from writing scripts to selecting music to editing videos to singing and narrating.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The topic of trauma — specifically, trauma-informed teaching — has become a focus in education. As the visual arts teacher at an elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., I teach art via a program called Teaching for Artistic Behavior, which values student choice and agency and aligns perfectly with trauma-informed instruction.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

It actually is quite obvious that the Arts should be included in STEM education. The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a 2009 keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences! Number one, explore the new metrics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2018

I’ve worked with Study.com in the past and come to realize the high value they place on differentiating instruction and meeting students where they are ready to learn, so when they wanted to share the news of their online class teaching the basics of differentiating in the classroom, they knew I would want to help.

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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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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 29, 2015

The mix of art, dialogue, character expressions, and frames engages learners and is brain-friendly. Each frame has a visual of the action, which is much easier for the brain to process than reading a large amount of text. Watch the recording of my webinar on this topic here ! Tell the news. Visualize research.

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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”. Observe how you are grouping words: many syllabi tend to group words students need to learn by arbitrary categories, such as length or even topics like “Summer” or “Food”. This unlocks doors to self-understanding”.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Watching videos and interacting with visual media are engaging ways to help students learn. Visual media can be great for learning, and not just because it's engaging! Just as students learn to read and write, being media literate in today's world also demands that students can "read" visual and video-based media.

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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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Waterford

DECEMBER 21, 2020

For example, children are better at visualizing divergent ideas than adults. It could be argued that teaching divergent thinking to students is less about teaching a new skill and more about maintaining it. 1] And according to neuroscience, creative thinking helps our brains learn new concepts by creating stronger neural connections.[17]

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Welcome to a post that recognizes that the Arts must be in STEM! 35 Resources for the STEAM Classroom… Putting the Arts in STEM by Michael Gorman at [link]. It actually is quite obvious that the Arts should be included in STEM education. NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art.

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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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Perry Hewitt

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

With the rise of sideways traffic via search and social, the homepage of a news site isn’t the single navigational portal it once was. Here are 64 ways to think about a news home page. Data visualization geeks can debate the efficacy of circular timelines. Balancing being informed with staying productive isn’t easy.

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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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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

What’s the student’s exposure to phonology, both auditory and visual? This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Andrea Sonnier devotes her time to teaching and learning from students, families, and professionals involved in the field of deaf education on topics related to social justice. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Those are my excuses for combining the last two weeks of news clips into one ‘best of’ roundup. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). Not that I’ve been twiddling my thumbs exactly.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 22, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. They had to present and share their findings during each week about several topics. Vicki: Many different topics? Koen: We are teaching them maths, science, English, even art. Koen: Yeah.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 6, 2020

Here are the sessions that have been scheduled so far : Teaching Visual Literacy Through Fake News with Dr. Lesley S. Farmer, Professor of Library Media || Interested to learn new ways to communicate, collaborate, and connect? Presenters have been invited to present on a broad range of education, teaching, and learning topics.

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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. The arts are central to the Muñiz Academy curriculum. Public displays of student learning are also natural in arts classrooms.

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MindShift

MARCH 20, 2017

Once they learn the art of the argument, students can debate some tough topics online or in class. Students can tweet about a topic from class. Smiling Mind is an app that helps students practice meditation through breathing exercises and visualizations. Smiling Mind.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It actually is quite obvious that the Arts should be included in STEM education. The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 9, 2020

Our topic is one of the most important aspects of growing up--playing with friends, playing with peers, playing with family members, making new friends through play, learning through play. He is the author of Free Play (Penguin, 1990) and The Art of Is (New World Library, 2019). This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL has fun.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

When a kid analyzes a TV news clip, it’s like she’s reading the paper. The Art of Storytelling ,” a popular course offered by Khan Academy, describes the principles behind filmmaking as Film Grammar. Pre-Production : Write screenplays for narrative films or research the topic for the documentary.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 26, 2013

Share visually in math or other subject areas. Technology Tailgate: InstaCollagePro and Idioms Auto Rap & Songify Ways to Use it: Make a song out of a topic to show understanding Create songs as study guides for tests or quizzes Check out the one I created for the Order of Operations here The options are limitless!

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

FutureFit aligns social emotional learning and character education with your traditional subjects of math, language arts, sciences and more for grades K-12. Although we’re talking STEAM here, remember that it stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. This is a fantastic question to ask – what’s your passion?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

But you can do that visually, and it’s much more memorable for the kids when they kind of see it and hear it at the same time. They’re at a desk like you see on the nightly news, and then they go to a reporter on the street. Vicki: So, they’ve decided their topic. Tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em. I downplay using music.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

It actually is quite obvious that the Arts should be included in STEM education. The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences!

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Bottom line: This large collection of books and videos on a wide variety of topics is an easy -- and free -- enhancement to any classroom library. Bottom line: Students can improve targeted skills with tons of practice modules and visually appealing tasks. Absorbing daily news stories offer kids just-right learning content.

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techlearning

AUGUST 9, 2018

People are looking for information quickly and visually. Creating an infographic to review content is a powerful way to help those students that are visual learners. This not only creates interest in the topic, it adds an air of authenticity. This goes far beyond “fake news”.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 1, 2019

To start, social media is inherently visual, yet many still post mainly text. Marketers should mix up visual content—images, animated GIFs, videos, infographics—with their copy. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Regarding the content of the posts, there are two areas to consider. About the Presenters.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

It also provides a host of world and news and training on the amazing arena of open education! This includes topics where doing and seeing provide information and encourage insights in ways that textbooks cannot. SmartHistory -(K-12) Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 6, 2015

Think Visual–Or Help Students To Do So . There is a wealth of free programs that allow students to incorporate visuals into their class work. Technology is nothing is not visual. Journaling is a classic critical thinking instructional strategy that helps students independently deliberate on a teacher-prompted topic.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Our students increasingly consult YouTube to get up to speed on any topic. To annotate videos for credibility–for instance when examining political or commercial advertising, looking for differences in news stories across channels or cultures, or when exploring historical newsreels. blended and hybrid instruction.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 5, 2015

Site users can create and curate questions and answers to a variety of topics, making it a great tool for teachers to develop practice quizzes and assignments for their students. Due to its visual nature, the site is a great way for students to share photographs of projects or experiences, and promotes creative, visual expression.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 6, 2016

If we just focus on the coding part of the equation (computer science is its own set of challenges), there’s some good news. It distills down the basic core competencies of programming into an easy to use and manipulate visual block system that’s been adopted by numerous other tools. GameMaker: Studio.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 19, 2010

Taglines could also serve to convey a main idea about a curriculum topic that wouldn''t normally be the subject of a blockbuster, like Gases: Without them you''d be breathless. audio cognitive impairment curriculum connections description emotions language arts main idea news operating systems syntax visual teaching'

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