eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Studios launched an expansion of its StoryBots franchise with StoryBots Classroom, a free resource for educators that includes hundreds of videos, books and activities for use on interactive white boards, tablets and laptops in the classroom. “StoryBots is exactly what kindergarteners need! ” Launched by JibJab Bros. .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

The approach traces its origins to the ideas of Maria Montessori , inventor of the Montessori method used in preschools and elementary schools globally, who encouraged children to do self-directed projects based on their interests. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. They logged in to their laptops and signed on to a program to practice addition. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia. But by 2008, they abandoned the practice. “It

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

Etai peered at the screen of a silver MacBook laptop, his notebook open on the desk next to him. Linear equations flashed on a laptop screen. An answer key on the laptop revealed that they’d forgotten one coordinate — grounds for lost points, according to the rules of the game. Etai’s favorite parts of this game? Strategizing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Autodesk Digital Steam Workshop – Digital STEAM projects are designed by Autodesk’s network of expert educators, designers and student alumni as exciting complements to core Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art (STEAM) curriculum. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

There has been a rise in AI programs with books and courses exclusively focusing on elementary and high-school students. Alex said that the biggest change he has seen is not in the topics we’re teaching, but rather how it’s been taught and this is now formalized in many of the newer standards which come under the Common Core.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He brought in more than $15 million in federal and state funding for Race to the Top projects, magnet elementary themes and preschool. After TFA, she joined the KIPP charter network at KIPP Delta in Helena, Arkansas; when the network opened an elementary school, she became its leader. She thinks it is no longer relevant.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Background and Experience Prior to being appointed as Connecticut’s education commissioner in August 2019, Cardona spent two decades at Meriden Public Schools—the same school system he attended himself—first as an elementary school teacher, then for 10 years as principal and more recently in district leadership. Ned Lamont.

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