eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Developed in partnership with Filament Games, “Mission: Mars” challenges participants to engage in the Engineering Design Process, developing and iterating on vehicles ready to navigate the mysterious red planet and complete exploratory missions with friends to survive on Mars.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although teaching during a pandemic has presented many new challenges, educators were searching for ways to keep students engaged and motivated during class long before 2020. To make it even more challenging, you can give the students certain scenarios or topics for their conversations. Fake or Florida.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As schools navigate the challenges ahead—and with parents and guardians stepping in as learning coaches and facilitators in remote and hybrid environments—communicating with families is playing an outsized role in successfully adapting to this nontraditional school year. Other Resources.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Thanks to the Internet, news can travel around the world at the speed of light. While some look to technology regulations to combat the scourge of fake news, the strongest defense may well be in building a citizenry with strong media literacy skills.[2] Within the past generation, the news ecosystem was well-established.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We understand that students and families are often just as concerned about what the school year will be like, what will be going on inside our classrooms, and what and how their students will be learning. Having the ability to quickly put learning into a visual format makes classrooms more engaging and fun for students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We imagine that some of you, especially teachers and school administrators, have encountered narratives about how COVID-19 has devastated learning and created new anxieties for students. News headlines dwell on the risks, challenges and deprivations experienced by students, crystallized in the ubiquitous phrase, “learning loss.”

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Neo LMS

MARCH 23, 2021

Their families are also struggling in many different ways, so they may need help coping with the uncertainty that’s become a considerable part of their lives. The school counselor can pick the most relevant topics, including loneliness, having self-compassion, building a healthy daily routine, dealing with anxiety during final exams, etc.

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Neo LMS

JULY 20, 2021

More and more, educators are relying on the internet to discover engaging activities, timely research, and the most current studies on how students learn best. For example, during the pandemic, I used one tool to collect messages from friends and family around the world for my daughter’s birthday. Choosing a tool. Wrapping up.

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Neo LMS

JULY 9, 2019

News reports. In 2019, only 67% of Americans have their family on a budget , despite 25% believing everyone should budget. Education technology helps children learn these skills in engaging and highly-personalized ways, ultimately allowing them to learn at their own pace. One in five 15-year-olds in the U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For more news on assessments, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Standardized testing has long been a contentious topic in the field of education. In other words, students are now tasked with understanding the underlying principles when engaging in mathematics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

When kids read that America’s $23 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad new is: Only half require a financial literacy course.

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Waterford

JUNE 23, 2020

While following local news, try to prepare for the most likely outcome while planning for alternatives just in case. If you’re interested in setting a professional development goal for yourself, it may be worthwhile to discuss which topics might be most useful to study with a school or district administrator.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2022

While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. They should help us examine our world, enjoy a giggle, and engage our minds.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This is particularly alarming because we live in an era when, according to Pew Research Center, 68 percent of American adults get their news from social media —platforms where opinion is often presented as fact. While Facebook and other social media outlets have pledged to tackle fake news , the results are lackluster.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 2, 2023

Reading Assistance: Summarize: Ask it to summarize a chapter or news story. original writing, news story, webpage information) and ask it to change the reading level so that it is appropriate for the reader. Social Media Posts: Chatbots help me craft engaging social media posts, complete with emojis and hashtags.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 25, 2023

Residential schools is the topic of our blog post today! Source: Wikimedia Commons If you find this topic as essential and compelling as I do, I invite you to read my other posts, including my reviews of residential school books specifically designed for children , and recommendations for books suitable for teachers and parents.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As physical distancing becomes a feature of students' everyday lives, social media has emerged as an important outlet for them to stay connected with friends and family. And for students from lower-income families, online negative experiences are more likely to spill over into their offline lives. Responding to Breaking News!

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Grades 3-5 Scripps News: Fast Fashion’s Impact on the Environment Scripps News provides videos on the most important topics and issues with straightforward, opinion-free news and documentaries. In this video, students learn about the fashion industry’s impact on the environment.

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Tom Murray

DECEMBER 14, 2017

However, the community is often unaware of such important topics until they hit a friend’s Facebook wall, an online gossip forum, or become part of the conversation at the local soccer field. The foundation to building dynamic, life-changing relationships with families and the community is trust.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Two-thirds were unable to distinguish news stories from ads on a popular website’s homepage. An example of digital access is helping families in your school or district connect to free or low-cost internet services. Google offers games about protecting privacy, which is a fun way to start learners thinking about this topic.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 30, 2021

As controversies about the pandemic, climate change, and social justice continue to make headlines, these same topics also provide opportunities for students to learn and apply media literacy skills that will help them with their course work, personal lives, and civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2020

Several years ago, officials in the San Francisco Unified School District realized their attempt to engage parents in their child’s literacy development was falling flat. Not all families could attend the training workshops and those that did were presented with an overwhelming amount of information. Credit: Screenshot/Ready4K.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2021

But to families, educators and early childhood leaders, that information can be convoluted, complex and overwhelming. Some families were fearful about the virus. Much has been reported, written, observed and said about these impacts—particularly by researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

More than 85 percent of their families were poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. To the researchers, that was good news. The surveys also found that elementary school students, who made up the majority of the students in the study, were more engaged in school and had stronger college aspirations.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors a variety of content to help students learn about the national debt using pop culture media to engage students. The debt ceiling will be in the news this spring. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MARCH 12, 2023

Mobile apps have made it super easy for kids to learn in fun and engaging ways, anywhere anytime. To this end, I have curated for you this relatively large collection of kids learning apps covering various learning needs and topic areas. Subscribers get unlimited access to hundreds of activities and early access to new releases.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Students take a weekly sustainability class and participate in monthly field study days that send them into the community to conduct research on topics like land use, pollution and food equity. Done well, proponents say, a theme can help students connect what they’re learning in the classroom to some larger purpose or vision of their future.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Suddenly, everyone’s awake, engaged, and eager to share their opinions. Now, from a practical standpoint, the Socratic method has been a proven technique to engage students in these philosophical debates. What Makes a Family a Family? A fantastic opener for discussions on research, fake news, and critical thinking.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 26, 2019

I’m not convinced of the causal direction in these papers — surely people who have time to read, or have a wide access to a variety of books, or who come from families who value reading — are also, sociologically speaking, more likely to have income levels and environmental circumstances that tend to make them comparatively happy? Not really.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 18, 2023

They can keep them engaged for hours on end. In Wow in the World , hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz "share stories about the latest news in science, technology, and innovation. Topics covered range from art and history to humanities and space. Podcasts are also perfect for kids and young learners. and many more.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Here, eSchool News highlights the San Bernardino City Unified School District–one of its K-12 Hero Awards finalists. That sudden, jolting change meant students and their families needed even more support at home. Keep reading to discover how this district keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

You’ve probably seen stories or heard from friends with listless teenagers at home, struggling with the new format. While that’s a reality for many families, it’s not the whole story. That’s a lot of good news about this massive new experiment in learning through technology. With the coronavirus pandemic pushing some 1.2

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Therefore, inspiring students’ interests in space topics through astronomy education can cultivate the broad skill sets and passions demanded across many sectors within the expanding space economy. We will see more districts leveraging real-time data so families can understand more than just what their child’s grades are.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

To highlight the importance of daily reading during the COVID-19 pandemic, Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is offering unlimited free access to myON digital books and news articles from February 1–7, 2021. For more information, visit www.renaissance.com/literacy-engagement-center/. Evans, M.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In the days after Baruch closed its campus, we agonized: Should we reorganize the rest of the semester around another topic? Must we abandon the background dossiers that students had prepared on New Mexico and Texas? Amid the pandemic, could we give students hands-on political reporting experiences?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Program leaders, sponsors, learners and their families, staff, community partners, and funders are all critical to the success of these learner-centered education models. Embark’s two businesses, Pinwheel Coffee and Framework Cycles, enable learners to engage in projects that integrate academics with real-world questions.

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