Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. How to Select the Best Educational Software for Classrooms? Educational software in the classroom is crucial as it: Fosters teamwork and encourages collaboration.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2024

Specifically, the AJUSD team sought a flexible, teacher-friendly, classroom-tested science solution that was easy to integrate into instruction and aligned to Arizona’s state education standards. Following a careful review of available resources, the district selected Discovery Education’s Science Techbook for classroom use.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 20, 2020

I arrive in my classroom every morning at around 7:20 am, 40 minutes before my students trickle in. I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. As if the plastic desktops and semi-silent rooms in my classroom were one of their few constants.

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Classroom Academic Standards Guidelines Social Media 162

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After more than two decades in the classroom, supporting students facing intense challenges in their home lives and trying to keep up with the unrealistic expectations set by administrators, I’ve finally hit my breaking point and all the compassion I have for my students and my dedication to the field may not be enough to help me recover.

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Academic Standards Meeting Elementary Classroom 149

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

It found that in fourth through seventh grade, graduates of the Georgia pre-k program were one and half to two times more likely to meet the state’s academic standards on math tests than their peers who did not attend public pre-K. The program at that time was less academically ambitious but more comprehensive, said Neuharth-Pritchett.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Prospective students should prepare to adapt to a virtual classroom setting, where interactions happen through screens and learning materials are predominantly digital. Each institution provides unique strengths, from LU’s well-rounded approach to MIT’s rigorous academic standards.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 6, 2021

How can K-8 teachers integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into classrooms? We hope teachers find these examples to be relevant and useful tools to integrate CS/CT lessons and to replicate and adapt these lessons for their classrooms. Have you integrated CS/CT in your classroom?

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Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Take a “Snap” of the learner’s screen to share with them during a digital citizenship conversation Guide student browsing There are many types of learners in a classroom, which means learners are on different digital citizenship journeys.

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Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: Educators often hear that what they do in the classroom needs to be based on pedagogy. Whether you’re new to teaching, need a refresher or are based outside of the classroom, understanding the foundations of good teaching is important. Their strategies should be tied to pedagogy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Given the prevalence of these diverse brains, why do we continue to structure our classrooms and schools in ways that make it so hard for these kids? Working around these needs or hoping children will adapt isn’t something we can continue to do if we truly want all students to flourish.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 20, 2021) —Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) today launched a new multiyear partnership with Discovery Education that helps educators connect current classroom instruction to students’ possible future career paths. said Superintendent Chad Shealy.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 3, 2018

Why Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone by Terry Heick A few years ago, the late Grant Wiggins, a learning expert who inspired me since my first year in the classroom, wrote about the intersection of academic standards and creativity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was a classroom full of climate refugees, and many of them said, ‘Oh, it hasn’t affected my life yet. What I found was that there’s a lot of kids who are learning climate denial in the classroom. And it’s pretty common that kids either get miseducated or they just learn nothing at all about the phenomenon in classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Many say they feel less effective when they’re stressed , which research shows can negatively impact the quality of their instruction, classroom management and relationships with students suffer. Educators are expected to improve standardized test scores and get students “back on track.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. After dinner, we sat together and reflected on what has kept us all in the classroom, despite the challenges of the education profession. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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Learning Elementary Academic Standards Policies 170

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. Additionally, the curricula are refined through extensive in-classroom experiences with a focus on the equitable distribution of learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I still remember the first time a student refused to step into my classroom. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space. I never imagined those same worksheets would become what made Truman dread the classroom so much.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

Brooklyn Lab’s model includes whole group instruction often occurring in a co-taught classroom, small group instruction, independent work with personalized playlists to develop mastery, and passion-driven enrichment. An orchestra has woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings that are each instrumented to play a specific role.

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Common Core Academic Standards Data Assessment 148

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Specifically, the bet is that formative assessments, which can be delivered in classrooms regularly throughout the school year, offer educators a better, timelier understanding of what students know (or don’t) than an end-of-year final test. K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2020.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I modeled my classroom after the classrooms in the high school I attended—rows of desks, the teacher at the front of the room, nightly homework, and regular assessments. After I had a few years under my belt, I began collaborating with colleagues to incorporate more projects into my classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. But a new partnership with a budding startup may help tip that scale toward digital. million in investment to date.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support.

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PlagiarismCheck

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The tool supports checking documents in over 15 languages and integrates with popular learning management systems such as Moodle, Canvas and Google Classroom. It enhances their reputation and underscores their commitment to maintaining high academic standards. Institutions also benefit from promoting authentic work.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a nearby classroom, other teams wrestle with the daily challenges of turning a profit on the high seas. Learning, Accelerated While we’re still digesting many of the lessons learned from the past 18 months, research from the math classroom points to some promising practices around learning acceleration.

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Learning Strategy Academic Standards Professional Learning 215

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Kahoot is best known for its digital quiz tools that can turn the classroom or corporate office into a raucous quiz show. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. But there is no question about how it plans to grow.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Growth of specialist teams dedicated to supporting second-language learners, students with special needs and technology implementation can also be seen as resources put at the disposal of the classroom teachers that help them to do their jobs more effectively. But the success of such improvement efforts have proven elusive.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Other initiatives, however, have come from top-down reform efforts, such as the creation and implementation of academic standards and associated testing regimes that emerged from the accountability movement. As mentioned, education is an extremely complex affair requiring more than just skilled classroom teachers to succeed.

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eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

Student engagement—participating in lively class discussions, investing time and energy into their academic work, and applying what they learn in school to the world outside the classroom—increases when educators value social-emotional well-being, according to 81% of teachers.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There’s no disputing the fact that studying to earn a graduate or postgraduate degree via the web is fast growing as an option to the conventional classroom format of education. Quality is not as good as that of daytime or classroom education. As per a recent survey , 5.8 Employers don’t recognize online degrees.

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Education Course Academic Standards System 163

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” We’ve made it our mission to build lessons that nurture 21st century academic success and empower extraordinary teaching.

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EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 157

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively. Design for collaboration.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 121

N2Y

MARCH 6, 2020

Before many states adopted extended (accessible) educational standards for students with unique needs, we began developing differentiated materials to provide students with the ability to learn skills, demonstrate knowledge and raise the bar for educational expectations. These standards outline, by grade level, what a student should know.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Each lesson plan provides specific setup suggestions, tips, and information on addressing cross-curricular connections and academic standards. KIBO Shape Search: Exploring geometry, students program KIBO to draw shapes they find in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Children attending school in these facilities are often taught in classrooms with multiple grades, sometimes by uncertified instructors, and very often receive assignments that are below grade level, the report says. If students exit the facilities and go on to attend public schools, their credits may not transfer over.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2018

For teachers implementing an activity centers-based classroom, library, or makerspace, this new guide provides 10 lessons that embed the KIBO philosophy of “Build – Art – Code – Play” in student-directed, discovery-based learning experiences. KIBO is a great fit for an activity centers-based classroom or makerspace.

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