eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2025

When we teach students to solve complex problems, we must also teach them why we use certain techniques and challenge them to ask WHY questions. Students often rely on each other’s ideas and feedback. Supports accessibility & diverse learning styles Game design adapts to students’ strengths. That fuels teamwork.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Math Participation Feedback High School 251

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Passive learning is defined as the process by which students receive information from their learning environment but receive no feedback, and there is no interaction between the learner and the learning environment. Active and Experiential Learning The brain-based learning framework consistently emphasizes the importance of active learning.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?” My journey has been one of constant evolution—from questioning the system to becoming someone who works to reimagine it. As a student, I found myself disengaged, even though I deeply valued the idea of learning.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

AI tutors are transforming education by offering personalized, accessible, and efficient learning support. But as these tools become more common in schools, serious questions about their legal impact arise. Encryption, limited access, and regular audits help maintain data security across platforms.

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Disabilities Ethics Schools Plagiarism 145

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

is a question that has reverberated from the minds of learners for decades. The mentor has access to a shared platform that is also accessible and regularly updated by faculty and advisors at the educational institution. What’s the root cause of the disconnect? Why am I doing this?”

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 94

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Passive learning is defined as the process by which students receive information from their learning environment but receive no feedback, and there is no interaction between the learner and the learning environment. Active and Experiential Learning The brain-based learning framework consistently emphasizes the importance of active learning.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. Flipped Classroom 2.0 This incremental mastery builds confidence and reduces cognitive overload.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 94

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. Flipped Classroom 2.0 This incremental mastery builds confidence and reduces cognitive overload.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 87

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. You might wonder why this preference exists.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

is a question that has reverberated from the minds of learners for decades. The mentor has access to a shared platform that is also accessible and regularly updated by faculty and advisors at the educational institution. What’s the root cause of the disconnect? Why am I doing this?”

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 94

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. In other words, regardless of students access to AI tools, cheating has been and continues to be endemic. These questions werent accusations.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 92

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

Immediate feedback is powerfuland when you build it into the work itself, you dont have to be the only source of it. Instead of walking around correcting every card or re-teaching every station, youre free to work with your small group while students get instant feedback. This is a question teachers ask all the timeand its fair.

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Students Peer Review Math Assignments 52

Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Providing personalised feedback and revision materials for students. Generate exam-style questions and quizzes. You can access the full guidance here , and the support materials here. The guidance suggests that generative AI can be a significant time-saver by: Developing educational resources. Handling administrative tasks.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Elianis: Before using the tool, I couldnt ask questions or talk to other students in the classroom.

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Teach Your Kids

JULY 7, 2025

I’m excited to introduce a few of the tutors I’m most enthusiastic about right now and I’d love your honest feedback on how we’re presenting them on Modulo. His approach makes even the most complex material engaging and accessible for curious minds. Why or why not? Thank you so much for your time and support.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Leveraging Technology One of the most significant advantages of online learning is access to various digital tools that go far beyond what’s available in a traditional classroom. These are a great chance for your child to ask questions, get clarification, and interact with their teachers, just like in a physical classroom.

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. Students explore big ideas through play, questions, and reflection. They dont just memorize factsthey weigh them, question them, and apply them. Every student has their own MacBook or iPad.

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 212

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

As districts explore AIs potential, they must also confront critical questions about equity, algorithmic bias and access. What feedback can you share from educators, students and families about using AI in your schools? Working with educational networks and partnerships can provide access to other professionals and resources.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

So my question became, “How do I encourage my students to read in a way that lights a fire for them, so that they don’t see it as just another torturous reading assignment from their dumb teacher?” Student Feedback At least once a semester, I survey my students to see how it’s going. Come back for more.

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k12

JULY 18, 2025

Online school students use computer skills to access classes, communicate with teachers, conduct research, review materials, and turn in assignments. Understanding the computer’s layout makes it easier for users to access the programs they need. Desktop navigation. Here are tools to help students do just that. Project management tools.

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Skills Internet Students Assignments 52

Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Oversight for Special Education is shifting to the Department of Health and Human Services, raising urgent questions about IDEA enforcement and IEP accountability. That plan is now in question due to visa bottlenecks and federal review protocols ( Chalkbeat , EdWeek ). Domestic pipelines are shrinking too. Brief your board.

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Special Education English Language Languages 94

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Small group instruction ensures that students receive individualized feedback, while structured classroom settings create a supportive atmosphere where they can develop confidence and independence.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

Some education leaders expressed support for the broad goals of the order while also voicing questions about how to achieve them. For example, theyre using AI to offer writing feedback and to teach students about civics by developing voter registration chatbots.

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Intelligence Schools Science Math 215

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Some questioned whether they even belonged on a college campus, said UC Riverside Dean of Students Christine Mata. During lockdown students weren’t able to bond and build connections to the institution, or even access support structures,” she said. Their academic shortfalls and social isolation took a toll.

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Math English Lecturing High School 88

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2025

The question was whether we would be chasing it or whether we would be trying to harness it.” Tech companies would benefit from this partnership by “co-creating” and improving their products based on feedback and insights from educators, said Gerry Petrella, Microsoft general manager, U.S. Who’s training who?”

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Lecturing Education Ethics Critical Thinking 139

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

While digital literacy is about accessing and sharing information through digital tools, data literacy is about making sense of the information those tools produce and using it wisely. Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning.

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 297

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Mancuso: When I became superintendent in 2018, I met with every teacher and asked one key question: Do you feel the district is being progressive? But access alone isnt enough. We focus on student agency: voice and choice.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 105

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools teachers have in their “teaching toolbelts” for guiding learners toward mastery. Without feedback, students do not have a clear sense of what they are doing well, what they need to focus on, and what they can do to improve.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It connects us to people all over the world, it enables us to find answers to our questions with the click of a button, and it is versatile enough to be used by students of varying skill levels. We love the Google Chromebooks because they are easy for our students to use, and we can access all kinds of apps through the Google Play Store.

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Essay Teachers English Internet 275

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

I would like to see teachers balance the time they spend on instruction with the time they spend facilitating learning and providing feedback as students attempt to do something with that instruction. It is in the moments when students are practicing and applying that they encounter obstacles, have questions, and need additional support.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Instructors 498

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In this post, I want to explore the principle of representation, which is focused on providing students with access to multiple ways of experiencing or receiving information. That way, students can engage with information in a format that appeals to or is more accessible for them. Click here to access instructions.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Competence: Students may not feel confident in their writing skills generally or their ability to answer a particular question specifically. If there is only one pathway provided, students may question their ability to complete a writing task successfully. Technology access can be another barrier.

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Assignments Writing Feedback Motivation 458

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s a place where interpersonal risks feel doable, interpersonal risks, like speaking up with questions and concerns and half-baked ideas and even mistakes.” Students may lose points on homework assignments or practice activities because they answered questions incorrectly. What characterizes a psychologically safe space?

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Blended Learning Feedback Achievement Coaching 506

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. This was giving me 100 percent quantifiable data on how many questions I asked and how often I asked them in a 90-minute class,” York says.

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Feedback Teachers Language Languages 218

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment. The final step is to pull the class back together for an informal discussion guided by the questions students asked about the information presented. Welcome Task or Bell Ringer. ” Exit Ticket.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546