eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Key points: AI tools have great potential–as long as students use them correctly The best way for teachers to get started with AI is just to play around with it See related article: Is generative AI a beacon for more accessible education? Putting AI to work on administrative tasks will free up their time to focus on supporting students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. But despite these challenges, there are bright spots in teaching and learning. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. The goal of these videos was for students to “see” how their writing skills were progressing over time. Students were correcting their work as they read out loud, which translated to better writing the next assignment.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write. Ensuring that all students have high-speed internet access and functioning devices is a baseline requirement for virtual learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Guidance for using AI in education AI is already impacting education in several areas: plagiarism detection, learning management platforms, analyzing student success/failure metrics, and curriculum development. Related : Texting is negatively impacting students’ writing Data privacy is very important in education.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 96

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. And GPS systems in smartphones and watches let families pinpoint their locations at all times.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

In terms of what we're teaching in our education system, a lot of what I know about programming is self-taught, but I think that we could do a better job of making programming accessible. Ryan Greenberg: When I was thinking about this, I quickly found that the skill people should master is clear writing—the ability to write well.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Future plans include making the LMS more accessible to more faculty members early next year, with an official launch to make it commercially available to the public during the Fall 2017 semester. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. We don’t want you to be a failure.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

Increasingly computer applications are being developed which capitalize on AI technology to provide support and tutoring to students, assist with writing skills, and significantly enhance classroom instruction by pulling from a wide array of resources and materials to provide comprehensive instruction in key concepts and skills instructed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math. Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Literacy skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing, can be difficult to support because students can fall on such a broad spectrum. Students enter school at varying levels of preparedness for reading and usually spend the first few years of school learning to read.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president. Every decision you make, every photo you take, every text you send, every email you write, every social media interaction you have should never bring shame or dishonor to you, your family or your institution.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We ought to eliminate those terms from our lexicon and, instead, think of those programs as schools and the adults employed there as teachers, Wuori writes. Significant, transformative public investment,” he writes. And if it’s accessible, what does an existing one look like in the U.S.? A bigger change the field requires?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The financial risk of entering higher education was already high, precisely because of the cost of failure. Western Governors University and Utah State University have created low-risk online pathways for students who need math, writing and pre-requisites. These potential students see tremendous risk, and they’re paralyzed.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

An asset-based approach emphasizes acceleration and enrichment, with a focus on designing rich, high-quality instructional experiences that provide accessible entry points for all students. Some standards are so foundational that failure to master them sets a student up for significant struggle later on—hence the term “gatekeeper standards.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the first part of my class, I’ll have them engage in activities where we’ll do a shared Google Doc so I can actually see their engagement and the thoughts that they’re having as they write words or add things to diagrams. So there should be failure in all of our classes. At the after party I help them with some of the reading.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

‘Appalling and unacceptable’ School closures took students and teachers out of the classroom, and the switch to remote learning exposed various inequalities in education— including issues like broadband access. For some, the results seem to be proof of the failure to adapt to the pandemic. This was already well known.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2018

As Kim worked with school leaders, he realized that what typically drives success or failure of efforts to improve school is not the educational approach but instead “the culture of our schools, organizational structures and methods of communication and decision making.” This isn’t just about giving students access to social networks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks is users can write in them. I’ll give you ideas. Don’t be afraid to fail in front of students. In fact, you can’t. There are too many. Annotate a PDF.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To support their professional growth, teachers will also have continued access to the AI Coach platform , which enables them to watch and reflect on videos of their classroom instruction, set professional goals, and receive personalized observation tips, coaching, and resources from a virtual, computerized AI coach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, or another that you prefer.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

“This summer presents a perfect time for districts to pilot new strategies not usually in their repertoire, and instead try to rebuild something different,” such as enrichment and other targeted programs aimed at smaller groups, the authors write. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

As a first step, I decided to morph a writing unit that I've taught for the past two years to let students take the lead. In the past, I always included one lesson reviewing the 13 narrative elements that we would use to guide us in analyzing literature and to help us write our own stories.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Many schools claim they instruct using 21st-century methodology, but after making numerous visits to schools in my area, I still observed a lot of traditional, PowerPoint-centered instruction in classrooms: a teacher talks, students write, the class takes an assessment and repeat. shouted one girl memorably.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Geographical barriers are dissolved , granting global access to high-quality education for students from diverse backgrounds. Did we have failures? That is a great writing and thinking tool. AI-driven avatars and virtual tutors enable personalized learning experiences , catering to individual learning styles. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. That will continue the cycle of failure. Every student in my class had taken and failed the graduation writing test.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. Its goal was to make access to algebra, a gateway to more advanced math classes, standardized and thus more equitable. Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

The growth mindset isn’t anything new—people have been writing about it more frequently for the last few years. Brainworks has a detailed introductory unit that is easily adaptable to your classroom of learners; grades three through eight, you can access it here. I was on a mission to change the way students speak with themselves.

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

And in 2017, the New York Attorney General settled with the same organization , due to its “failure to adequately prevent illegal tracking technology from surfacing on some of the nation’s most popular children’s websites.” She says she looks for whether information is being traded or stored, and what else the app can access.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Educational innovators might: Write a book - publish on Kindle or iTunes. Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate. They might sell some content they created, write a book, or build an app, for example.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The first time a declaration along similar lines was made by a student visiting the writing studio, I was taken aback. “Of Students in the latter group would see mistakes and failures as a demoralizing reflection of their limited ability and as a signal to give up. Of course, not,” I answered. What makes you think that?”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Most of us do not have access to large chunks of time to devote to tasks, so the work of grading builds up and bleeds into personal time, such as late nights and weekends. Many of our courses have 48 students enrolled, and writing is assigned in all classes. We do not use any machine grading. Dr. Jennifer P. Dr. Stephanie B.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

No matter the class, that teacher–be s/he history, literacy, social studies, math, reading, writing, or tech–reminds students of the right way to keyboard. A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. This isn’t just for writing, though. Make this a strategy in the classroom.

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