eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. What are some examples of teaching techniques?

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Often, these pitches entail free or discounted software for products ranging from instructional materials to virtual conferencing tools. This is not the time for me to be researching and exploring tools,” said Stacey Roshan, a math teacher and director of innovation and educational technology at the Bullis School in Maryland. “I

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Science materials from 65 publishers were reviewed for adoption by the Instructional Materials Advisory Committee, comprised of parents, teachers, district administrators and community members. The Committee reviews all instructional materials in light of the state content standards.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) recently released a Guide to Quality Instructional Materials to support the move from print to digital materials. You can take the course online or download it to study offline. Accessing OER. How to find OER.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. Study after study has demonstrated that high-quality curricular resources play a vital role in improving student learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Members of the public were also able to review the materials online for two weeks. Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. K-12 English language arts materials were the focus of the 2020-2021 year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The transition to nontraditional instruction required educators to consider not only students’ access to technology and instructional materials, but of adequate food and necessities often provided by schools. Just as school terms were ending in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Her private school in Toronto, Ontario, had made the transition admirably well, she thought, but she wondered what online tools existed to supplement her studies, and how she’d find the best options. Most technology use in classrooms — 60 percent — was “passive”: watching videos or reading websites.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. Thus, there is the potential for more disparity in the quality of materials from school to school. They support sound pedagogy and balanced assessment to help teachers understand and interpret student performance.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

Studies show that for students to remain engaged, they need texts that reflect their personal experiences. Offer high-interest content that reflects student experiences Studies show that for students to remain engaged, they need texts that reflect their personal experiences. Source: Newsela. Video also available on Facebook.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. First, the authentic design opportunity to develop instructional materials for adult learners motivated many to participate in the MOOC. A reading lesson including a social studies theme asks adult learners to consider the Fourth Amendment to the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In an effort to help educators, parents and other education technology consumers make better choices about the products they use, Digital Promise spent the last year developing a “research-based design” product certification. It’s hard to design an efficacy or impact study without that.” Merriman explains.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

During a tour of updates to SETDA’s Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States (DMAPS) , which showcases state policies in support of digital materials, Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director for SETDA, discussed new features like professional development information.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Within K-12, they’re already having tremendous success: after just 15 weeks, high school students who used ChalkTalk experienced an increase of 200-600% on state test scores compared to their peers after a full year of traditional instruction. Then their students take a placement test online to assess their starting skill level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Along with quality classroom materials, there’s an urgent need for quality curricula, Kockler said.

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techlearning

APRIL 12, 2018

Lexia, with a 30-year history of efficacy research, has multiple studies demonstrating the strongest level of evidence according to ESSA legislation. Lexia has eight studies with Strong evidence—the highest level of rigor defined by ESSA—and an additional seven studies with Moderate or Promising evidence.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

Guide provides case studies on how districts successfully adopted integrated digital curriculum systems. The eBook provides educators with digital curriculum strategies, case studies and insights for connecting courses, resources and assessments with common standards and learning objects.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

“This will be more true than ever going forward,” Hoverman told more than 125 education business leaders attending the event sponsored by the Education Technology Industry Network of the Software & Information Industry Association.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

Now education decision makers across America can see detailed reviews compiled in multiple states, to facilitate the evaluation and purchase of print and digital materials for students and teachers. He has taught in many areas of social studies, as well as in computer applications and programming.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In the edWebinar “ Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, Innovation Specialist at St. Albans City School, and several of her students explained how they’re using technology for assessment, service work, and more. Technology is so pervasive in students’ day to day lives.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Welcome to a series that supports the use of technology in support of differentiated learning in and beyond the PBL classroom. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

The state is reviewing new science instructional materials for the first time in 12 years to help science teachers succeed in teaching students the latest standards. With the review process for science instructional materials to help teachers finally under way, implementation is another step closer.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. We possess full court vision, with knowledge of both the online and offline instructional landscapes. We study and understand our team members’ talents and we earn their trust. What’s curation?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A Teach Page offers videos, resources for lesson planning and assessment, differentiation, additional resources, in-a-pinch (for substitutes or surprise snow days) and achievements (badges, votes, and rankings) to promote engagement. Correlation of content with Social Studies standards. Curriculum Guide.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 15, 2016

Text Sets For Social Studies. The School edition offers assessments, standards alignment and the ability to customize instruction. Teachers across the curriculum will appreciate the ready-to-go nonfiction text sets: Featured Text Sets. Spanish Text Sets. Text Sets For Science. Text Sets For Literature. State Text Sets.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

The 2023 K-12 Hero Awards program is dedicated to recognizing the country’s best examples of K-12 success using innovative education technologies. To meet this challenge, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in the summer of 2020 announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC).

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I I exclude technology from this analysis). billion or so.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. The deal pairs ENA’s comprehensive infrastructure technology and support services with CatchOn’s unique software as a service tool that delivers essential data about ed tech usage in U.S. No bubbles required.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Johnston County district leaders made it a priority to find out where they were going wrong.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

Whatever the fate of online learning, the past months have exposed some glaring disparities in access to education and technology, while families with children who have disabilities and special needs experienced significant challenges even when technology was available. More than 14 percent of students enrolled in U.S.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. It was through the MIT social scene that Resnick connected with Duffy, a Somerville native who studied environmental engineering and creative writing. And she can’t bring herself to reject anyone’s assessment. It’s kind of all true.

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