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JUNE 24, 2025

AI tutors are transforming education by offering personalized, accessible, and efficient learning support. Encryption, limited access, and regular audits help maintain data security across platforms. These steps help prevent breaches and maintain trust in digital learning environments.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2025

teachers work with diverse groups, often with varying language backgrounds and ability levels, in both indoor and outdoor settings. These grab and go units include wireless microphones that teachers and students use to amplify their voices as they move about a room.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2025

With a universe of educational applications available, the study highlights how the proliferation of individual, poorly integrated digital tools in many districts is impacting students, parents, teachers, and district leaders. “The challenges with this approach depend on which type of user you are.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

I’m here to share my advice to new homeschool parents (or veterans) from the perspective of a veteran teacher and someone who has homeschooled. Keep Supplies Accessible Also, take time to gather essentials– notebooks, pencils, a whiteboard, art supplies, etc. you’ll find your rhythm, adjust it, and find it again and again!

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

In fact, in addition to concepts like backward design and power standards, they are one of the most useful tools a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to. It also makes a powerful self-directed learning tool. Start at the left, and, roughly, move right.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

As educators, we should consider it an enrichment tool rather than a replacement for traditional learning. Further, by centering our teaching practices on critical engagement with AI, we can better prepare our students for a future where these tools are integral to learning and teaching. 2023, March 21). GatesNotes.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Helping your child become actively involved in their learning can lead to better comprehension, stronger retention, and a more enjoyable overall experience. These quick check-ins help students (and teachers) assess what they’ve learned and break up longer sessions with interactive moments. Encourage your child to participate!

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k12

JULY 24, 2025

Students attend classes led by certified teachers, follow a curriculum aligned with state education standards, and have classmates. With homeschooling, parents act as the teachers by creating the curriculum, leading classes, and grading assignments. What is online school? Think of online school as a virtual spin on traditional school.

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 3, 2025

New technology in the classroom is always super exciting for the teachers who get the joy of adopting new materials! This 83 page digital book has you covered!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Technology in the classroom is nothing new; most of today’s educators have embraced the ability to draw upon an increasingly diverse array of digital tools and programs to enrich their lessons. A more seamless classroom flow and better time management for teachers? Easier access to performance data across multiple learning solutions?

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2016

New survey reveals less than one-fifth of teachers give their school top marks for incorporating technology into the classroom. Eighty-six percent of teachers said they are either somewhat satisfied (64 percent) or very satisfied (22 percent) with how well the tools and technology in their classrooms facilitate learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2021

And because schools may move to hybrid or virtual learning despite starting in person, digital learning tools that work in the physical or virtual classroom can prove invaluable. In fact, 90 percent of teachers say they plan to use edtech tools this upcoming school year.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And because schools may move to hybrid or virtual learning despite starting in person, digital learning tools that work in the physical or virtual classroom can prove invaluable. In fact, 90 percent of teachers say they plan to use edtech tools this upcoming school year.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Brown: There wasn’t a tool or platform that could do everything we wanted to do, quite frankly. We needed something which could serve as the backbone for a very personalized experience and that could put kids in the driver’s seat by allowing them to access learning on a 24/7 basis.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that Savvas Realize has earned a Tech & Learning 2021 Award of Excellence for Best Remote and Blended Learning Tools for grades K-12. Savvas Realize also won a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence in 2020. “We

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And those benefits are even greater when educators and students learn together, especially as we navigate new tech enablers like AI apps and tools. Technology’s effect on teachers Individuals who struggled to use technology have argued that the incorporation of too much technology is one of the reasons for teacher burnout.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

program and ensure access to dynamic learning opportunities for students across the state.” ST Math’s unique approach provides students with equitable access to learning through challenging puzzles, non-routine problem solving, and informative feedback,” said Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2024

As a high school math teacher who is about to start his first year of teaching AP Statistics, I find myself searching for arrows to add to my mathematical quiver. For any teacher who is starting this process, or any teacher looking for a new arrow, here is a list of five great tools, which could be great for other subjects as well.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As a public school teacher, I had to constantly evaluate how my teaching practices and materials could better include and empower the vast diversity in my classroom. My students loved having subtitles on during short videos because it gave them more opportunities to interact with and learn from the content. Evaluating accessibility.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

On its face, the cell phone policy at Forest Hills High School seems clear: Phones cannot be used in school and must be turned off during the day, unless a teacher allows them as part of a lesson. This is a complex host of issues that will not be solved just by ‘changing a policy,’” the Brooklyn health teacher said. “In

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity. As personalized learning continues to gain momentum across the U.S., more states, districts and schools are moving toward a competency-based education system that focuses on individualized learning and classroom equity. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 09/27/2018 - 15:46.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2015

Epiphany Learning, a personalized learning ed-tech company, has launched version 2.0 of its Epiphany Learning Personalized Learning Application. A mission requiring us to constantly evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of learners, teachers and administrators. is the culmination of our findings.”.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education: Find the Blended Learning Tool that Works Best. There are a number of digital classroom offerings available for K–12 teachers to use. While both have similar features, they each offer unique tools that suit some classrooms better than others. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

Lumio by SMART Technologies, a cloud-based learning platform that enhances engagement on student devices, recently announced a new feature for its Spark plan. This new offering integrates AI Assist, an advanced tool designed to save teachers time and elevate student engagement through AI-generated quiz-based activities and assessments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

As teachers prepare for classes to resume this fall, McGraw Hill today announced the launch of McGraw Hill Rise , a new reading and math supplement with embedded assessment and personalization to help educators identify and address individual learning gaps for each student. this fall. . . McGraw Hill.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Digital learning tools are invaluable when they’re used by confident educators. In fact, when used appropriately, digital and mobile learning resources engage students–and they can even help boost achievement. Here, 13 educators share snapshots of the digital learning tools they’re using in their classrooms.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

Digital tools, once mainly supplementary for many schools, became essential for delivering lessons, facilitating communication, and maintaining student engagement. This overnight pivot also exposed inequities in technology access, highlighting a digital divide among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persists today.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“It’s an honor to have our literacy programs recognized as solutions that are positively impacting teaching and learning—and having access to adaptive, personalized tools has never been more important than during this unprecedented time of COVID-19.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

It quickly became apparent that reliable virtual learning tools were a must-have for teachers to be productive. However, classroom technology is only valuable if it builds a positive learning environment. Implementing new technology in schools can be complicated.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

Every teacher’s professional development must keep up. As teachers, we are entrusted with our nation’s children, and their futures, yet many of us find ourselves isolated in classrooms without the right training or support. For a classroom teacher, though, this has the opposite effect. I feel scared and uncertain.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. The bird’s-eye results: 65 percent of teachers say they use digital learning tools every day; 87 percent report using them at least a few days each week.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Imagine a world in which a teacher begins the school year with a comprehensive personal profile of each student in her class—a report that incorporates insights on academic performance, social-emotional development, behavior, attendance and a host of related data. Take, for example, spatial skills.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2024

This process aims to help schools quickly and reliably select and implement edtech tools, said ISTE CEO Richard Culatta during the opening of ISTELive 24 in Denver. “It is far too challenging for schools to determine if an edtech product is of sufficient quality to be used by teachers and students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Iredell-Statesville Schools allows some use among teachers, but not students.” ” Looking closer at North Carolina, Pitt County Schools adopted a color-coded AI use system to help students determine if their use of AI tools is acceptable, or if a given assignment is best completed in an AI-free manner. ”

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work. These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Students in a classroom learn and consume information differently.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2016

While most students still take at least some of their courses in a face-to-face setting, the need to scale online learning opportunities for thousands of students has required new infrastructure, new curriculum, and, of course, new teachers. It’s not for the administrator or teacher who says, ‘I will do this in my spare time.’

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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