eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

“Games are among childrens favorite activities, especially for primary school students. . Quizizz allows for both live games and homework assignments, so students can practice at their own pace. Gimkit: Build collaboration while earning rewards Gimkit is another fun platform for learning games. Ive seen this firsthand!

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Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Social Studies 306

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2019

Using Edpuzzle , I was able to turn a passive video into an active learning experience for my students. I could instantly see the number of times students watched each portion of the video as well as when each student watched and completed the assignment. The embedded quizzes enabled me to view student’s responses.

Quizzes 276

Quizzes Learning Feedback Assignments 276

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

Alternatively, for an open sort activity, students can be asked to create their own categories based on their understanding. Students process vocabulary by grouping and comparing terms, which facilitates active learning and concept formation. I once witnessed a class participating in this activity.

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Technology Middle School Middle School Assignments 228

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Promote active learning Active learning is a simple concept where the students themselves are participants in the learning process. Spurring students to be actively engaged is important. Students do not always know how the material is going to help or benefit them.

Student Engagement 304

Student Engagement Teachers Students Attention 304

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of online distance education, educators face a crucial challenge: captivating students and igniting their passion for learning within virtual environments. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of online distance education, educators face a crucial challenge: captivating students and igniting their passion for learning within virtual environments. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies.

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Active Learning Achievement Activities Quizzes 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Making Learning Active Students, in particular, seem sold on the upsides of techniques they encountered during online learning. A recent Titan Partners survey found that students are eager to participate in on-campus courses with digitally embedded exercises.

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Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218

Teach Hub

APRIL 3, 2025

Here are a few tried-and-true active learning strategies to keep students engaged and learning. Think-Pair-Share: A Simple Yet Powerful Tool This strategy is a favorite among teachers who incorporate cooperative learning in their classrooms. Students read, research, and discuss their assigned section.

Active Learning 67

Active Learning Activities Learning Critical Thinking 67

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors.

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Instructors Lecturing STEM Study 201

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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Activities Lecturing Exams Active Learning 216

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

eSchool News

JULY 24, 2023

Students can earn coins through their learning to spend on fun games and avatars. Teachers are able to create classes, assign homework, and track the learning progress of their students. This information can then be used to personalize any learning or to bridge the learning between school and home.

Education 246

Education Learning Teaching Methods Social Studies 246

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 96

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

Not only is it okay to stop grading every single assignment , but there’s also a smarter way to ensure your students are learning and growing: self-checking student work. When students can see their mistakes, fix them, and understand why something is incorrect, they’re actively learning.

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Students Peer Review Math Assignments 52

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

To support educators in integrating digital learning tools, such as Minecraft Education, into their instruction, LAUSD created a Skill Builder series that trained teachers on integrating Minecraft esports into SEL, literacy and numeracy.

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STEM Learning Science Learning Outcomes 197

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. When my students watch his videos, they say they feel like they are sitting in the same Harvard classroom that is being filmed and are participating in the dialog with the other students.

Learning 163

Learning Students Assignments Participation 163

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It serves as a contract between instructors and students (Eberly, Newton, & Wiggins, 2001), outlining the entire semesters expectations, assignments, and deadlines. When students feel involved from the start, they are more likely to participate, ask questions, and take ownership of their learning. References Elberly, M.

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Syllabus Students Activities Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

After a few of the district’s schools participated in a pilot program with the digital reading platform Actively Learn, Stanley got a look at teacher surveys and other program details. “I How do we prepare students to do that more actively? The Actively Learn platform provides opportunity for both approaches.

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Reading Teachers Learning English 150

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve been utilizing mid-semester check-ins for several years now and have noticed that students respond best when I send out informal invitations to reflect on their learning experiences. By informal, I mean posting a short video inviting them to participate in a discussion forum, journal entry, or an anonymous online poll.

Student Engagement 131

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 131

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Basically, they hadnt even tried to complete assignments. or I am sure I can get all these assignments done before finals week. You know the requests: I know this already.

Assignments 103

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 103

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

These brief moments set the stage for active learning, focus, trust, and shaping the atmosphere of the entire session. These crucial minutes set the tone, influencing how students perceive the class, their peers, and their role within the learning environment. Consider the First Five Minutes from the students perspective.

Activities 110

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 110

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

However, by integrating interactive features like quizzes, hotspots, and branching storylines within the video content, instructors can create interactive videos that transform passive viewing into active learning experiences, resulting in improved student performance by up to 30 percent.

Instructors 116

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

We asked them to share their initial thoughts on AI, the tools they had tried, the professional development they had participated in, and their reflections at the end of the semester. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. Need a YouTube video summarized or some awesome questions? Look no further.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

This helps our teachers strengthen their practices and participate in ongoing, reflective coaching at their own pace. Vrain Valley School District Career-connected learning will become more important than ever. Cybersecurity, like real-world security, is all about assigning trust to someone based on what you know about them.

Schools 337

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It serves as a contract between instructors and students (Eberly, Newton, & Wiggins, 2001), outlining the entire semesters expectations, assignments, and deadlines. When students feel involved from the start, they are more likely to participate, ask questions, and take ownership of their learning. References Elberly, M.

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Students Activities Instructors 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

For example, a professor might have to toggle between a learning management system ( LMS) for grading, an e-reader that delivers the textbook, a platform used to present information in class, an app that helps with student participation and a homework solution for out-of-class assignments.

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Authentic Assessment Instructors Textbooks Lecturing 151

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This approach improves access and learning as well when students play a role in the design of content, said some of the chat participants. eTextbooks, multimedia learning objects, OER, all class materials, organic (social) class communications, discussion, collaborative learning assignments—everything must be mobile-perfect.”

eLearning 149

eLearning Instructors Participation Discussions 149

Faculty Focus

MARCH 27, 2025

Every semester, a student hoping to “earn their desired grade” approaches me at the last minute, asking to make up all their missed assignments. Basically, they hadnt even tried to complete assignments. or I am sure I can get all these assignments done before finals week. You know the requests: I know this already.

Assignments 91

Assignments Exams Learning Quizzes 91

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Last fall, Digital Promise invited about 100 companies to participate in beta testing. Merriman provided one example: If Newsela offers students a reading assignment available in five different versions, for five different reading levels, students will have a greater sense of belonging.

Education 178

Education Peer Review Motivation Reading 178

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

We asked them to share their initial thoughts on AI, the tools they had tried, the professional development they had participated in, and their reflections at the end of the semester. Let AI handle rubrics, tailor assignments, and give feedback. Need a YouTube video summarized or some awesome questions? Look no further.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

These brief moments set the stage for active learning, focus, trust, and shaping the atmosphere of the entire session. These crucial minutes set the tone, influencing how students perceive the class, their peers, and their role within the learning environment. Consider the First Five Minutes from the students perspective.

Activities 98

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

I consistently wanted to integrate community building activities for the students to participate in and feel safe and comfortable. Another “assignment” that students were required to complete was a quick slide that was called the “All About Me Bag.” References Bentrim, E.M. & & Henning, G.W. Ricevuto, J. &

Student Engagement 116

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning approaches like lectures and textbooks to innovative methodologies such as active learning and technology integration, these methods aim to promote effective and dynamic learning experiences. What are the 5 methods of teaching? What are the 5 methods of teaching?

Teaching 130

Teaching Teaching Methods Critical Thinking Learning Styles 130

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Teachers can create and manage assignments, distribute resources, and provide real-time feedback to students. It also supports collaborative learning, as students can work on group projects within shared documents, participate in discussion threads, and ask questions directly within the class stream. Additionally, Kahoot!

Educational Technologies 130

Educational Technologies Technology Education Quizzes 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

If leaders direct their attention to hiring and retention practices, professional development, and personnel assignments and procedures, working conditions and morale improve. This will help students make sense of the many digital points of contact that they have to manage every day—assignments, due dates, calendars, messages.

Teaching 128

Teaching Achievement Learning Feedback 128