Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

The full immersion that we look to harvest every day in the classroom was evident in each student regardless of reading ability. Research and pedagogy unequivocally point to digital game-based learning as an instructional methodology that can improve literacy skills.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

These specialized search platforms provide access to peer-reviewed articles, books, journals, and a plethora of other academic materials, essential for in-depth research and study across various disciplines. JSTOR : A digital library housing thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Educators who spend time in classrooms interacting with students will be the first to admit that their needs are as wide-ranging as they are numerous. From making classrooms safer to providing high-quality instructional materials to ensuring schools leverage the most current digital tools, grant money can make all the difference.

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Libraries Future Ready Instructional Materials Resources 97

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

The idea of “zero textbook costs” makes a kind of sense when you believe that the ideal instructional materials are books. Books contain static, unchanging words and pictures on a page. They’re perfect for printing or exporting as a PDF.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Instructional material for student reading is often very didactic. Libraries that are designed to be enjoyed—whether they’re traditional libraries, digital libraries, or classroom libraries—motivate students to read. However, when we started the next book, a fantasy novel, I finished it independently that same day.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

UDL is based on the principle that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning and that instructional materials and methods should be flexible and adaptable to the needs of all students. What does the menu analogy look like in the classroom? The result: He eventually graduated college as an English major.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2021

The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) announced an agreement with OverDrive Education to provide access to online books to every K-12 student in the state. Students use their school credentials to read required and recreational digital books in the Sora student reading app. Sora was named one of TIME ’s Best Inventions of 2019.

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Accessibility eBook Libraries Instructional Materials 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But these reading gains are meaningful for a real-life classroom experience, not a laboratory experiment or a small pilot program, which involved more than 7,000 third graders over two years. How to drive research to inform practice within schools and within classrooms is the central problem we face in education policy,” said Dee.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

“It actually was a tangible piece of evidence to see what we were talking about when we say there is a lack of respect for educators — when you don’t even want to have them on a committee to talk about what would keep them in a classroom.” At school you teach and support students. At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data.

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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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Tom Murray

JUNE 21, 2017

In classrooms where teachers view themselves as the key disseminators of information, content is primarily derived from a static textbook, and information isn’t meant to be consumed until a particular point during a larger scope and sequence. These students have come to expect high-quality content—on demand, anytime, and anywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Allison Shelley for EDU Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. The authors of the latest 2024 meta-analysis had hoped to give teachers more guidance on how much classroom time to invest on phonemic awareness.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture.

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Hapara

JUNE 16, 2022

Open educational resources, also known as OER, provide a great way to supplement curriculum to differentiate instruction and better meet each learner’s needs in your classroom. para built itself upon a robust pedagogical foundation that is designed to support differentiated instruction. So what does that mean?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

In fact, it has been so successful, O-G is being mainstreamed into the general education classroom, as a way to unlock the power of reading for more students. Encouraged by Dr. Orton, she compiled and published instructional materials which provided the foundation for what became known as the Orton-Gillingham Method.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. Another challenge we solve in the classroom is that students need more individualized instruction than their K-3 teachers have time to provide.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scribbling the formula across the blackboard. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

When it comes to instruction, the work consists of four segments: core curriculum, supplemental (intervention, test prep, little books) curriculum, assessment, and technology (hardware, infrastructure and connectivity). Each of these workstreams are run by separate teams, using independent funding streams, only rarely coordinating.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 21, 2017

In classrooms where teachers view themselves as the key disseminators of information, content is primarily derived from a static textbook, and information isn’t meant to be consumed until a particular point during a larger scope and sequence. These students have come to expect high-quality content—on demand, anytime, and anywhere.

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Survey Instructional Materials Social Media Study 189

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

By providing actionable data and insights, knowledge-rich learning, culturally responsive pedagogy, and scaffolds to support learner variability, the blended research-based program helps teachers facilitate lively classroom discourse and engage all students with grade-level content using culturally relevant texts. About Curriculum Associates.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

As an Asian American, a former classroom teacher and a resident of Illinois, I got involved with AAAJ Chicago to learn how I could support local schools and districts. The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. I would steadily learn about those things until I integrated them into my classroom. If, however, the instructional coach makes a beeline to the principal, let’s see what could happen. Just three, no more.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Bank of rich and culturally relevant tasks: Any mathematics content management system should give teachers access to or allow them to create and import problems that represent the diverse needs of their classroom. It’s a mindset—a way of approaching the world—and any tools used in the classroom should support growing these essential skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Of course, curriculum is only a small part of what’s needed to create culturally-responsive classrooms. So how can curriculum publishers and educational companies be meaningful partners in creating culturally-responsive classrooms? But we can focus our technological solutions on supporting the practicing classroom teacher.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I am really proud that in partnership with IMPress Books , we have just released a new book by my good friend and someone who pushes my thinking continuously, AJ Juliani. For the next few days, you can get his book online for one dollar on the following sites: Adaptable on Amazon. ” Below is a snippet from the book!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Also credit Edgecomb’s intermediate ELA teachers with introducing Flashlight Reading periods when kids quietly read by flashlight in a darkened classroom.)

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scribbling the formula across the blackboard. One of my many high school memories is learning the Pythagorean Theorem.

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Blackboard Instructional Materials Professional Learning Digital Learning 125

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2022

The curated, easy-to-implement instructional materials, combined with state-of-the-art screener and diagnostic assessment tools, are designed to help move learning forward for all students. Thousands of e-books include high-interest, popular, and culturally relevant titles. Test Less, Teach More.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. Rather than a single book or set of books, most basal programs now include a number of materials to facilitate learning. Report highlights.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

My purpose behind this post is to introduce you to UDL, explain what it is and talk about the different ways you can use it in your classroom to enhance your teaching and boost students learning. 2013) define UDL as “a set of principles and techniques for use in the classroom along with the design of accessible instructional materials.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2016

To earn these, teachers view the required materials, answer a set of questions, and then submit evidence of impact on practice such as lesson plans, instructional materials, and videos. which provides embedded cards for free like the one below: Show What You Know: Project Based Learning in the Mathematics Classroom.

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Digital Citizenship Instructional Materials Android Social Media 150

The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 4, 2022

This is because our thinking about environment C and the instructional materials we use aren’t as simple and uninvolved as we thought. That’s why there’s the scramble to leave the classroom. While reading Richard Sennett’s book The Craftsman another thought came to mind.

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Buncee

MARCH 26, 2021

My correspondence and instructional materials are very text heavy and visually overwhelming, and I’ve struggled to improve until I found Buncee. I learned how it worked, became comfortable, and sent out “New books!” I am extremely unskilled at presenting content in a visually appealing way; bulletin boards?

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Libraries Instructional Materials Meeting Twitter 36

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But good teaching is good teaching and without higher-level uses of technology, it becomes just another dusty book on a shelf. Contributing to the difficulty of transitioning to meaningful technology integration is the idea that technology exists as a tool separate from curriculum and instruction and then treating it as such.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Preparation can consume weeks or even months of classroom instruction. Materials are typically decontextualized, with multiple-choice items that mimic the format of standardized tests. Classroom minutes are precious. In the stress state, the lower, reactive brain is in control. There is little evidence of its upside.

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Instructional Materials Assessment Industry Elementary 150