eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Making tough choices Later this year, the final round of federal pandemic funding, known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER), will expire, leaving school budgets uncertain in many districts. Funds they have come to rely on for staffing and technology will end in September if not allotted.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

took at least one online course. It’s important to note that those impressive numbers don’t include remote students at the elementary or high school level. Without modern technology and near-constant connectivity, online learning wouldn’t be possible. Cybersecurity is everyone’s business. Wrapping up.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

After analyzing the learning rates of 7,000 children and adults using instructional software or playing educational games, the researchers could find no evidence that some students were progressing faster than others. All needed practice to learn something new, and they learned about the same amount from each practice attempt.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That is why STEM education is so important in elementary and middle school. One positive trend to emerge from the pandemic is that tremendous strides have been made in the development of augmented and virtual reality software, simulation tools, and online learning platforms.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Moreover, it’s necessary to purchase a comfortable table, chair, organize the storage system, install all necessary software, and prepare other things required for distance learning. Particularly for those who learn remotely. Time management. Time management is especially relevant today as never before. Eat healthy food.

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Waterford

JUNE 11, 2020

Others, like genius hour and bite-sized learning, are recently arrived educational trends that may have a helpful place in your classroom. This year, as schools moved to online learning and teachers scrambled to adjust their curriculum, many teachers, students, and parents gained new appreciation for the value of self-care.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tabernacle Township School District’s 665 elementary and middle school students are one-to-one with devices. Some of these teachers began commenting on difficulties with the classroom management software that was in place at the time. para offers a full instructional suite that streamlines online learning for teachers and students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

The first-place prize went to Jonathan Marceau, a teacher at Monfort Elementary in the Utica Community School district, who will receive $10,000 in business startup grant funding, plus branding and logo design support, and legal consultation for Spelling Safari.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Khan Academy, an educational nonprofit that provides a collection of online learning tools and videos and has long been a go-to for math homework, has created exactly that. A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 24, 2023

ESSER, which stands for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief , was first established as part of the CARES Act, where additional funds were added to ESSER II and III. What is ESSER? It served as emergency relief funding to assist public schools amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

In addition, teachers are encouraged to use software company Turnitin’s AI detector to check for plagiarism. For now, he said he doesn’t think generative AI tools will have an immediate impact in early elementary classrooms, either as an instructional tool or a cheating risk (“You can’t fake knowing your ABCs,” he said).

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 8, 2017

To enhance the learning environment with technology and use the classroom time more wisely teachers start implementing additional types of activities such as working in groups, collaborative learning, independent preparation at home, and, in doing so, unwittingly start using the blended learning approach.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. So the OECD turned to educational-software developers, led by Arthur Graesser at the University of Memphis, to create simulated computer agents to pose as humans. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students’ learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Math is cumulative,” Joel Rose, the chief executive officer of New Classrooms, a nonprofit company that sells math software to schools, once told me. You just can’t learn linear equations if you don’t know how to multiply.”. If just-in-time supply delivery works for production, might just-in-time review work for learning?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2020

Not only does she need more specialized support than many students, but her vision challenges and other impairments can make online learning difficult. Advocates, educators and parents say that kids with disabilities are particularly vulnerable as schools shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus and turn to remote learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. The software only counts active usage, not idle minutes. Credit: Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Technology allows us better meet the needs of each student due to various opportunities that educational technology can give like the following: Intuitive, smart technology software- adjusts to students' learning and keeps them both engaged and challenged. It wasn't always easy to discern what concepts students didn't understand.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. Van Alten recommends embedding quizzes into the videos, for example, by using free instructional software such as edpuzzle to avoid wasting class time on them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Hebbar said she’s seen racial biases in some of the personalized learning software available for schools. The rush to adopt tech during the pandemic, Hebbar said, has been problematic because school procurement officers didn’t always have time to properly vet tech tools or have rigorous conversations with tech companies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2019

One of Brown’s current projects is helping groups of elementary and middle schools in Colorado and New Jersey reconsider their school days. But Kutylo has found that newfound flexibility in the school day can lay the groundwork for more support of personalized learning. Related: OPINION: How 45-minute class periods stall learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

The median annual wage for a software publisher, for example, is $140,220, roughly $100,000 more than the median wage for a black woman in Mississippi. This year, thanks to a donation from an MSU alumnus, they have expanded the residential camp to elementary school students. Meanwhile, states like Pennsylvania allocated $2 million.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In the latest dealmaking news, language and literacy software solutions company Imagine Learning acquired Think Through Learning, an online supplemental math program. In addition, Securly, an Internet security solution for the K-12 market, raised $4 million. In August, VIPKID raised $100 million in a Series C round.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. Waterford also gives parents support resources, technical assistance and, if needed, a computer and internet connectivity for accessing the online software. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the most recent federal data I could find from 2014-15, almost 90 percent of high school principals said they offered online credit recovery in their schools and estimated that 15 percent of their students used these software programs. It made school leaders look good. But there was a downside.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

“That means services for medically fragile students and other vulnerable children, an emergency support plan for all first responders and healthcare workers to support child care and other needs, access to appropriate testing and care, feeding programs, and learning packets and specific guidance for online learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Each student already had a device that all but the youngest took home every day, and some spent hours a day working online in school. Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Eric Wang, vice president of AI at Turnitin, a plagiarism detection software company used by many higher education institutions, said AI is already subtly steering what we do everyday, whether it’s our Netflix viewing habits or our auto-completed sentences in Gmail.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. My visit to Maple Hill Elementary School in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, NY blew that notion to shreds.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. . “It’s kind of scary isn’t it?” ” “Kind of.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

The pilot was designed to create and then evaluate the most effective, scalable, and sustainable method of incorporating blended learning. Blended learning is an instructional methodology that combines face to face and online learning to personalize the learning experience to meet the specific needs of each student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Learning management systems, such as Google Classroom, which present educational materials in an organized way online, could become part of a new method of instruction that combines digital and traditional approaches for all students, Guastaferro said. One-to-one technology is more of a norm than it’s ever been,” said Katzman.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

That effort began by having Vancouver’s librarians get trained in new software purchased by the district, so that they could train their school colleagues in turn. Teacher-librarians such as Chun have since expanded that tech-integration role. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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