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. Starring You® and Learning Books – 90+ eBooks that help kids practice reading.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

Those two things are a key part of learning, too, she argues. For anyone who’s spent time in an early childhood classroom, the idea that school should be as much about making friends and having fun as learning the alphabet will sound familiar. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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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. Yet it’s up to the school to figure out how all the students attain this common skill set. They logged in to their laptops and signed on to a program to practice addition. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

NEW YORK — One morning, just before classes at New York City’s Quest to Learn Middle School broke for lunch, Etai Kurtzman found himself transformed into a lemon tree. Attempts to use games as assessments ruin the playful experiences that make them an effective learning tool, he said. Read more about technology in the classroom.

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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. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

It helps teachers adopt reasonable teaching approaches and it helps students study and learn in an organized manner. As technology is infusing more and more into education and students are being introduced to different learning styles, there is a need to reassess the curriculum with regard to new age requirements.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Proper infusion of the Arts will create a STEAM culture that engages and promotes intrinsic learning. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. She would have to convince them by following through on her promises, helping kids like Ricky learn to read. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Ricky had his own hopes for his new school. he Brown v.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest. In an op-ed published Dec.

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