eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

(January 13, 2021) – WeVideo today launched WeVideo Classroom , a cloud-based multimedia creation platform customized for educators to help drive student engagement and ignite deeper learning through the creative process.

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Gradelink

APRIL 27, 2022

KEY STRATEGIES: IMPROVE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. By bringing problems adapted for your students into the classroom, you can break the stereotypes for students that a particular subject does not relate to the “real world” or is useless to them. Check out this boredom-busting blog.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On top of that, almost 80 percent of students want more playful learning experiences in the classroom. Many teachers feel they can’t easily incorporate play into the classroom, so LEGO Education created the Permission to Play kit as that first step. said Dr. Jenny Nash, Head of Education Impact, U.S. for LEGO Education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It is a powerful tool for teaching that naturally engages students in the learning and builds the skills they’ll need in and outside the classroom like creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. On top of that, almost 80% of students want more playful learning experiences in the classroom.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2020

Beginning dialogic engagement in the classroom simply requires getting children invested in an issue they can relate to and on which they have different perspectives and helping them engage each other’s perspectives. Engaging Literate Minds, pg. Encourage students to submit their essays as op-eds for a newspaper.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In addition to sharing about the tool, you should also check out their 60+ tools for Student Engagement , and I’ll share about their teacher support quiz which will help you better support teachers. In this blog post, I’ll share my review of TARA, the Teacher HQ for Resources and Administration. Let’s dive in to this awesome tool!

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. In today’s show, Michael gives us five simple ideas for implementing game-based learning in your classroom. Today’s Give Away Contests!

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This post will share how teachers can quickly digitize handouts, check-ins, worksheets, quizzes, lab reports, and paper of all kinds that support classroom activities. TeacherMade converts classroom paperwork into interactive online activities. Then, you can easily connect them to Google Classroom. TeacherMade can help.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 25, 2019

This year’s conference highlighted so many ways to use Google to engage learners and make grading, assessment, feedback, pbl, gamification, student engagement, collaboration, student choice, and student voice easy to do! Currently, I am the Computer and Technology teacher of over 400 elementary students.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 23, 2022

A Classroom Lesson Never Taught : Welcome to my PBL Reflection… it really is a good read… but if you want the links right away… scroll down. Students were beginning to enter and fill the classroom. Upon closer inspection the teacher realized the students had searched for and found the new NCAA Basketball Brackets.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This need is highlighted in the Digital Citizen standard of the ISTE Standards for Students , which asks that “students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology.” This year, ISTE has added a new volume to the series— Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom: A Guide on Ethics and AI.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The advent of interactive large format displays further expands the options for achieving the documented benefits delivered by this transformative classroom technology. Classroom display board technology is a powerful thing. Introduced in 1801, the chalkboard was a transformative classroom technology.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 27, 2018

Three years ago, an innovative educator in Jersey City Public Schools ’ Division B introduced drones to a class of elementary students with autism. Her goal was to enhance student engagement, and the results from that experiment were encouraging. Crowley is now known as “Drone Girl” to many students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

It is hard to comprehend that more than 34K downloads have happened in 113 countries! These are calculated on downloads as of today. Creating a Student-Centered Library Where Kids Love to Learn with Micki Uppena (Show #23). Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Steven Anderson (Show #29).

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

iPads are ubiquitous in today's classrooms, but it takes some work to find educational uses beyond games. A donation of iPads to my second- and third-grade combination classroom last year had me searching for new and exciting ways to implement them. But how was I going to implement AR technology in my elementary school classroom?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

We know that every student is unique and has their own learning needs. That's why in this podcast, we'll explore various differentiated reading strategies that can be adapted to fit the needs of every student in your classroom. Jennifer's Podcast: To the Classroom Conversations with Researchers and Educators.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Wheeler: One reason we chose MidSchoolMath is that the middle grades represent the critical time in a student’s academic career. We thought about elementary, middle and high school. This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

A fourth-grade student at Mendez Elementary in San Marcos, Texas, held an iPad out in front of her. On the screen, she saw her classroom just as though she were using the camera, but with one startling difference: There was a zombie floating in front of her. Many educators find that gamifying learning keeps students engaged.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

Flip Grid: 6 Fun Ideas to Engage Learners in Conversation with Teryl Magee. Download the PDF Transcript. It’s really for student engagement and other ideas that you can use in the classroom where students are able to answer questions and engage in class conversations via video. What is Flipgrid?

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 12, 2017

How do you measure the positive effects of student engagement and motivation for learning? For this diverse, coastal school district in Mississippi, student engagement has made all the difference, particularly in math. We're really impressed by how engaged the students are. Their students performed 15.5%

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Edutopia

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Will a flipped classroom work in your subject area and grade level? Have your students engage in a question and an investigation before you supplement then with some of that video content. Jon: In math class, it's like the biggest no brainer in the flip classroom. Download on iTunes. Aaron: So is this for you?

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 26, 2020

With districts around the country having closed schools, educators have been dealing with the immediate challenges of salvaging the remainder of this academic year while planning for a dramatically different, unpredictable landscape when students eventually return to classrooms. 8 Factors to Look For. Minutes per week are up from 54.7

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 7, 2020

Have you ever found yourself in a classroom full of students, wondering if anyone is enjoying the content? Or at the very least, engaged and invested in what they’re learning? As teachers, one of our main goals in the classroom is to engage our students in meaningful activities. Who knows?!

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

5 Ways to Amp Up STEAM Learning in the Classroom. Download the transcript: Aaron Maurer on episode 140. Vicki: Here we are with my good friend, Aaron Maurer @ coffeechugbooks talking about five ways to amp up STEAM in our classroom. Vicki: Yeah, you know, teacher engagement comes before student engagement, doesn’t it?

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 25, 2015

Flipped Learning for Elementary Education (We are currently writing this book). Blend and Flip in the Elementary Classroom. Bring Flipped Learning Into the Elementary Literacy Classroom. How to Flip Your Classroom Without Flipping out Your Students. Many Methods to Flipped Classroom Success.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 25, 2015

Flipped Learning for Elementary Education (We are currently writing this book). Blend and Flip in the Elementary Classroom. Bring Flipped Learning Into the Elementary Literacy Classroom. How to Flip Your Classroom Without Flipping out Your Students. Many Methods to Flipped Classroom Success.

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Flocabulary

DECEMBER 7, 2015

At Flocabulary, fostering a love of learning in every student is one of our biggest goals. We believe that motivated students are successful students. These students have a global following before they leave elementary school – and there lies the problem. My students were used to being given writing prompts.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

The designation comes with 500 iPads, five gigabytes of data per month for each student and teacher in the sixth through eighth grades, and professional development support for teachers. Two-thirds of the county is in the Cherokee National Forest, which has a big impact on development patterns and school revenue.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast : We’re talking to Doug Fisher about the best practices in distance learning from their book with John Hattie — The Distance Learning Playbook: K-12 Teaching For Engagement and Impact in Any Setting. It’s the same passion, engagement, and relationships — you already know how to do that.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As librarians, our job is to not only give students and teachers access to resources they need to succeed, but to be their guide when choosing these resources. They’re also useful when students keep digital reading journals for summer reading projects. What does a modern library look like?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 27, 2015

So today I’ve invited an experienced elementary and middle school art teacher, Jenny Knappenberger of Art with Jenny K , to share one of her favorite ways to get kids creating and collaborating. Teaching students with an art-infused curriculum is a sure-fire way to get students engaged and involved in their learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

On this day, in the wake of recent student fights, the Crew played a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” and another called “Instigator,” in which two students tried to identify a “leader” surreptitiously chosen by the rest of the crewbies who milled around the classroom aping the leader’s gestures and gait.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 8, 2018

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast, I talked to educators about the school-to-prison pipeline and how restorative justice in the classroom (which starts with you) can change the trajectory of a child’s life. Download the audio above! Want to listen instead of read? Let’s start with the big picture perspective.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The majority of the tools mentioned in this post and the four earlier posts in our series, transform the student experience from passive consumers of information to active creators of content, employing multiple English Language Arts standards and skills along the way. We firmly believe this ought to be the new norm in the modern classroom.

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