Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2021

I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades? 10+1 reactions to closing Iowa’s achievement gaps. 10+1 reactions to closing Iowa’s achievement gaps.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Whether delivered via visually engaging textbooks or powered by the most advanced digital technology on the award-winning Savvas Realize LMS, Savvas Learning Company’s rigorous, standards-aligned resources focus on putting the student at the center of learning. It is about that aha! ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Triseum's ARTe: Macenas immerses students in art history. It can take from hundreds of thousands of dollars to several million dollars to create high-quality video games for learning, depending on the scope and the learning objectives you are trying to achieve,” Thomas continues. Enter Textbook Publishers. For example, W.W.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of VERE360. For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others and experience things they would otherwise never have known.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Black History Month offers a wonderful opportunity to continue exploring the many remarkable people, events, and accomplishments that shaped our nation. Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Lemma Shomali: Our research tells us that as K-12 education moves away from scripted textbooks, teachers must evaluate digital resources from many sources: the open web, content providers, etc. history students, and I want to insert questions for students to think about while reading. Often, they become overwhelmed by too much content.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Americans during Black History Month and beyond, Discovery Education recently launched the African American Experience s channel. Culture, History, and Politics.?Students Kendi and additional resources offer educators insight into strategies for teaching African American history. and organized by?Culture, Students will be?inspired

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. Mary Jo: What is Reconstruction, and what do you hope to achieve with it? Now, she’s embarked on a new path: edtech company founder.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

A school is more than just classrooms and textbooks; its a place where young minds take shape, dreams take flight, and lifelong connections are made. With nearly 100 years of history and a forward-thinking approach, Gulliver Prep stands alone as Miamis school of choice, preparing students for a dynamic and diverse world.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Yet, news literacy is not universally taught, largely because of systemic obstacles: It is not commonly part of curriculum standards, districts tend to focus on standardized testing and STEM, and lessons may be greatly limited or built around a textbook. I have seen this many times in my own classroom, where I teach history and U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

From the landmark 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report—which sounded an alarm about student achievement and national competitiveness in the Cold War era—to today’s renewed attention to civic education, new trends in American education are often rooted in deep concerns about the present and the future of the country. These efforts are ambitious.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

Cherlendy Louis, a student and TeachTap user in New York City, said, “Instead of getting bored and zoning out using textbooks, TeachTap makes topics so much more entertaining. History, World History, European History, U.S. TeachTap currently offers these 11 courses: Nine AP exam preparation courses: U.S

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. That's where we want to be, and that's what we've worked very hard to achieve from a technical standpoint.” Spierenburg likens AR to a safety net for students. “It

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

So it is possible that this tech is overkill for a use case like proof of academic achievement. Textbooks and College Sports? The show is hosted by David Allan, a marketing professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia who is also writing a textbook about NFTs. ISTE is the parent organization of EdSurge.)

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Especially for students with low achievement, diagnosing what they don't know through various questions is crucial, as students themselves often don't know where they need improvement. Throughout history, humans have used various media such as stones, wood, paper and chalkboards to explain and learn abstract concepts and complex knowledge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. A number of states are fiercely battling over curriculum standards, and not just in history and social studies. The revisions were embroiled in arguments over what good math teaching looks like.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

Explore the ways that our present continues to be shaped by our collective past through a powerful glimpse at the Armenian Genocide, an important and often overlooked chapter of history. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2020

New education companies and nonprofits are forming everyday—a mix our education system has been comfortable with since the earliest days when schools eagerly adopted the first commercial textbook. Student achievement has plateaued , our teachers have been ignored one too many times, and our schools are more segregated than ever.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2021

Richard Barrera “Many districts, for the first time in the history of their summer programming, are focused on fun and engagement as a number one priority,” says Jessica Gunderson, a senior policy advisor with the Partnership for Children and Youth, based in California. We call it a summer of learning and joy. Joy is not a throw-away term.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2022

Since its inception, Discovery Education has been an early mover in bringing modern technologies—such as video streaming services and digital textbooks—to the classroom. Within Sandbox AR, users can create virtual worlds and populate them with some of the hundreds of unique objects from history, the built world, science and nature, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened to the chapter being reviewed, homework as worksheets based on the text, tests regurgitating important facts. Did I miss anything? Differentiation is the norm.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2021

ensures that students and their families don’t miss the opportunity to experience the history and beauty of the federal city. . Premiering May 26, 2021 at 1:00 PM ET at www.DiscoveryEducation.com/City-of-US , The City of U.S. – A Virtual Field Trip to Washington, D.C. The City of U.S. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

The New York University student is the creator behind “Black Girls Code the Future,” a 36-page coloring book highlighting the achievements of Black women in tech. And then also thinking about role models and how a lot of these amazing women are written out of the textbooks, and we don't hear about them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 31, 2020

How to use Google Meet –from Eric Curts at Control Alt Achieve; if you’re teaching from home you need a virtual meeting app; Google Meet is gresat. 10 Tips to Support Kids with Slow Internet –these from Matt over at Ditch That Textbook. Videos on Remote Learning from Microsoft EDU.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Since his days as an elementary student in Texas, Richard Collins has loved history. Our country has a lot of struggling students and they need a different tool than the textbook. He’s read about, pondered and strived to emulate remarkable Americans from Dwight D. Eisenhower to some of his own ancestors. Now as the Chairman and CEO of.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It’s no surprise that students would ask for help on platforms like Chegg, which offer digital textbooks as well as tutoring and homework help. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3 But that progress has been uneven, as achievement gaps persist among students. Cheating on Chegg?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And often, free tech tools for teachers do a great job of achieving learning objectives. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications bring subjects to life by immersing students in virtual environments or overlaying digital content onto the real world, enhancing understanding in subjects like science, history, and geography.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

For the first time in competition history, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge will also recognize entrants with an honorable mention award. The top 10 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge finalists are as follows in alphabetical order by last name: Abhinav Anne , Naperville, Ill., Bolles School-Bartram, Private Moitri Santra , Oviedo, Fla.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Yet the longform research typical to disciplines like English, history and sociology can be difficult to share and find online. TOME allows us to achieve our mission of delivering high-quality peer-reviewed scholarship to the world,” said Dean Smith, director of Duke University Press, in an email.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The use of technology in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning can be achieved by providing innovative tools and methods that improve engagement, personalization, and efficiency. Online databases, digital libraries, and educational apps provide students with a wealth of information beyond traditional textbooks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. And they’re put out by recognized names in education — Khan Academy, BBC, Microsoft, Teacher Tube, as well as textbook providers like Origo. ” Kudos to their ability to achieve that goal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

With summer fast approaching all over the Northern Hemisphere, kids are eager for time away from teachers, textbooks, and To-do lists. Digital Breakouts are an update to the traditional and popular webquests that have students explore the web as they gather content in a particular field — history, math, literacy, or others.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Gehsmann, who is professor and chair at the Department of Literacy Studies, English Education, and History Education at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, says efficiency is one important piece of the silent reading and literacy development puzzle. Remember Golden Grove’s 2018 ELA achievement rate for the lowest 25% of students?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If one of these bullet points is different from what the learner may have originally come up with, there’s a new intrigue of the history and subsequent understanding of it, opening a new avenue for continued learning and interest. AI transforms textbooks into interactive study guides. History class, we are studying Reconstruction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

We were not focused on [our mission] when I first came, so I started having conversations with teachers to define what our mission looked like and our path to achieving it.” Once while I was explaining the need to revise our curriculum someone asked me: ‘So you’re telling me we need to tell the history of poor people, why does that matter?’”

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k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

” Its this balance of challenge and achievement that builds confidence. Whether its English, history, or science, St. Sebastians differentiation strategy ensures that every student has the chance to thrive individually, while also achieving as a part of the whole class. And confidence? Take math, for example.

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