eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Kit: Teaching and Learning in 2020—Leaders provides an overview of the actions school leaders can take to support remote teaching and learning, as well as resources to help leaders understand and support teachers’ delivery of Personalized Instruction and establish schoolwide goals and expectations. About Curriculum Associates.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Representing leading publishers and assessment service providers in the testing industry, the ATP promotes high-quality programs among members—as well as among the entire assessment community—through highly regarded global events, advocacy work, best practices guidance documents, and networking opportunities. About Curriculum Associates.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These were small group or individual tutoring sessions on top of whatever phonemic awareness lessons children may also have been receiving in their regular classrooms, which was not documented. The company says it is working with outside researchers to keep improving the instructional materials it sells to schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

Related: Best Document Cameras for Teachers. The SVGA resolution, which stands at 800 x 600, makes it particularly apt for day-to-day presentations, graphics, and instructional materials. Many teachers have transitioned from traditional overhead projectors to document cameras , also known as visualizers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2018

After reviewing instructional materials rated as Tier 1 standards-aligned resources by the Louisiana Department of Education, we decided to try Open Up Resources 6–8 Math , an open educational resource (OER) authored by Illustrative Mathematics (IM). In fall 2017, we formed teacher committees and solicited feedback.

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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. On the administrator side , BloomBoard offers the ability to look at reports and recommend resources for professional development.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 26, 2015

New market research documents the shift from print to digital instructional materials in K-12 over the past few years, a trend expected to continue. Digital Conversion Ed-tech Research digitalconversion edtech k12market marketreport printtodigital'

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. Teachers Today’s teachers know how to use Excel to compute grades or Word to create documents, but that’s not enough. Sounds easy.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2016

Definition: Overt or covert rearrangement of instructional materials to improve learning. There’s one degree of separation because you can’t rearrange the materials, just the ideas within them. There’s one degree of separation because you can’t rearrange the materials, just the ideas within them.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ELMO’s document cameras offer various ways to help students visualize objects and see in detail. Teachers can turn static documents into rich learning resources, enhance learning and drive student engagement, and promote student choice. ELMO demonstrated the ELMO Ecosystem of Classroom Solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. But there was a downside.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

By providing out-of-school access to digital instructional materials , students now have more opportunities to personalize their own learning and support to complete their homework. Teachers are available to even collaborate after hours and comment right then and there on the actual documents,” said Dr. Cory.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Engaging Congress Developed by the Indiana University Center on Representative Government, this game uses primary sources– documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps and other documents–to explore the challenges of sustaining our democracy. Downloadable PDFs and PNGs of all primary source documents. .

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The US Department of Education recently noted here that “Online learning opportunities and the use of open educational resources and other technologies can increase educational productivity by accelerating the rate of learning; reducing costs associated with instructional materials or programs.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

Curriculum and instructional materials live on websites, in the cloud, on paper, in LMS’s, in Google Drive or OneDrive. In addition to the actual curriculum and materials, the program impacted schedules, adult learning opportunities, the budget and many more system elements. Edtech can enable and house the holistic blueprint.

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Learning in Hand

AUGUST 17, 2017

G Suite apps include Google Documents , Sheets , Slides , and Drawings. Shareable links can be used for publishing a document or for collaboratively editing a document. Documents are only accessible by you (the owner) unless you turn link sharing on. In fact, your audience may not know you created the document in G Suite.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Resources include instructional materials, new NGSS transition customization services and free guides. Designing NGSS Scope and Sequences” is a 15-page PDF that contains a series of scope documents that provide options for schools looking to implement the NGSS.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

“According to the Consortium for School Networking’s 2015 IT Leadership Survey, 84 percent of school technology officials expect that at least half of their instructional materials will be digitally based within three years,” said itslearning vice president of sales and marketing, Matt Dobosh.

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BYOT Network

JULY 22, 2017

Teachers are now engaged in a time-intensive daily process of designing digital instruction from resources they find on the Internet. A recent survey noted that teachers spend up to seven hours per week searching for instructional resources and another five hours designing their own instructional materials.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Each collection can include web pages, images, documents, eBooks, and more! With Collections, teachers can quickly pair content to instruction, and students can collect and curate resources for assignments, projects and tasks. A guide for AP US History supported work around document-based questions or DBQs.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The beginning of each school year offers teachers the perfect opportunity to update their instructional materials,” said Jerry "Jay" McKinney, an educator with Louisiana’s Rapides Parish School Board. Each individual describes how his or her passion, skills, and education paved the way for an exciting career in STEM.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2017

By providing out-of-school access to digital instructional materials , students now have more opportunities to personalize their own learning and support to complete their homework. Traditionally, the responsibility of homework has relied 100% on students and parents, despite some parents being absent or unable to help.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

Educators agree that all students deserve access to all instructional materials. However, few institutions have clear, well-communicated plans that document how accommodations will be provided to students who need them. Faculty are the ones in the trenches developing content and activities for students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

in English literature and was the lead reviewer in a December 2019 study of online instructional materials. “But you have to have the excitement of digging into the text. A 2018 RAND study documented how a majority of teachers give the wrong answer to questions about what the Common Core standards are asking for.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Many are also joining to support passage of the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act. It could not have been easy for UC Berkeley to decide to remove public access to educational materials.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Snagit will enable teachers to grab text from a screen capture and paste it into another document without retyping the text. By watching instructional material beforehand, students come prepared to the classroom; if still confused, students can receive individual help during classroom time. Interactive Whiteboard Edtech Tools.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

As schools think about making learning accessible for all students, it is important to consider how instructional materials allow students to interact with information. For example, students who are unable to type can use voice-to-text tools to compose responses to questions or complete written assignments inside of Google Documents.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 24, 2012

Belton is paying for most of their implementation through the Texas Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA). Vicki and Terice have an iPadU (staff development) agenda and other documents which they will gladly share. It''s much harder to fix the mistakes you make in staff development than to do it right the first time.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Like Rachel, these teachers are taking the time to document lesson plans but still feeling like they’re flying by their seat of their pants, forgetting to do certain things with students even though it’s in the plan, and constantly running out of time before getting to finish the lesson.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

BASE provides access to millions of documents from repositories worldwide, making it a comprehensive tool for academic research. Lesson Plans Websites Lesson plan websites are essential tools for educators, offering a variety of teaching resources, lesson plans, and instructional materials.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Zoom-ing Out the Door The teacher shortage has been well documented. A new RAND Corporation research report, “ Stress Topped the Reasons Why Public School Teachers Quit, Even Before COVID-19 ,” singles out “challenges of remote instruction” as one of the top five COVID-19-related reasons for leaving.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

From California to Connecticut , legislation is being written and revised to specifically tie attendance to learners’ documented interaction with instructional material. Yet, these shifting, multidimensional measures make the act of taking attendance considerably more complex.

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Doug Levin

MAY 6, 2017

Apparently, the potential of this exploit had been well-understood and documented since at least 2011. After all, all software has bugs and can be exploited, and one test of the mettle of a technology company is how well it monitors and responds to incidents. Yet, consider that this was no zero-day attack.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. This dependence can present major risks and drawbacks because of the well-documented disparities in local funding across districts and states.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In our own reporting about the pandemic, The Hechinger Report has documented an array of factors contributing to learning loss, along with a decline in college readiness and an increase in mental health problems. Domenech, executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association , said in a statement.

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