eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Mission Move was developed by educational experts to utilize kinesthetic teaching and amplify learning for children in kindergarten through fifth grade. Mission Move incorporates movement with lessons in math, English language arts (ELA), and nutrition to make learning fun and engaging for kids.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

state standards in science, social studies and English Language Arts. It supports active learning, student flexibility, and various teaching and learning methods. Avantis Education’s lessons are housed in the Eduverse , Avantis’ award-winning, built-for-education online platform.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. population speaks only English as of 2019. Not only did learning French seem impossible, it seemed irrelevant.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2022

“Shakespeare wrote with a particular sort of space in mind, a particular sort of theater,” says Stephen Wittek, project director of Shakespeare-VR and an assistant professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. The creators of both systems also share the belief that acting out a scene from a play is a natural form of active learning.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

Key points: Tech tools can create more engaging and effective learning experiences A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital tools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

Increasingly, schools have turned away from that model as they strive to create active-learning classroom spaces that are more conducive to modern learning methods and thought. . A new study underway at Virginia Tech seeks to understand the effects of physical space on course engagement and learning. by Larry Bernstein.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

Featuring short videos in English and Spanish that are paired with ready-to-use instructional activities, this exciting new content brings compelling natural science phenomena alive for students.   10 new learning games from Arcademics.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2023

Boasting over 100,000 exercises and 200 exercise types, it contains interactive elements, feedback, games, and explanations aimed at supporting and engaging young people in learning. It covers English, math, science, social studies, languages, and music, following set lessons with exercises in each topic.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish. Pivot, which j oined the Discovery Education family of services in 2022 , makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This year’s event featured more than 800 sessions on various topics such as leadership, mathematics, STEAM, digital citizenship, literacy, English language arts, and more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

UWorld currently offers materials in seven AP subjects: Calculus AB, Calculus BC, English Language, English Literature, Statistics, US History, and World History. Plus, reporting tools provide meaningful insight into student AP performance at the classroom, school and district level.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Place-based instructional practices draw on experiencing the land, the stories, and the primary sources that inspire active learning and promotes civic responsibility. The local archives offer great lessons on digging deep for text-based evidence when meeting English Language Arts Standards. Staff before students?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Here are three colleges that have found a way to use technology to create a more cost-effective, customized, and engaging learning experience. Her only moment of hesitation was introducing e-textbooks to the Developmental Reading and English course—a class where students tend to need extra help when it comes to both technology and reading. “I

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2023

A New Analysis Dives Into the Research Flipped learning had a big moment during the pandemic, when many professors decided it made a lot of sense to ask students to watch recorded lecture videos on their own, then use class time for active learning. But does this model of instruction actually work?

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

They also provide tutoring classes for children to be ‘college-ready,’ and now they are moving from passive to active learning with their ‘ FutureSchool ’ concept.” which it acquired in August 2020) and eventually including music, fine arts and English to students in the U.S., Brazil, the U.K., Indonesia and others.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Approaches and resources that were recommended by people on Twitter include: Writing Across the Curriculum : This is a movement that works to build effective writing assignments into courses well beyond English, composition and literature classes.

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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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Choices include fiction, poetry, and songs in English and Spanish (a limited availability). Add “book collections” to the column of how technology successfully facilitates learning. Here are a few more: Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Working with elementary education students, we stress to our students that ideas and information generated from AI programs must be balanced and supported by meaningful learning experiences created by teachers’ knowledge of the students enrolled in the class. Changing English , (2024), 1–14. References Bender, Stuart Marshall.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

A report released this September by Digital Promise, Microsoft, Fresno and Houghton Mifflin, tells the story of Fresno’s PLI and its impact on learning across the district. Seventy-eight percent of its students are low income and 22 percent are learning English.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

One of the key elements of active learning is exerting mental effort to recall information, without relying on notes or other props. Don’t worry about the English translation.) And a translation in English is not needed. Spaced retrieval involves an initial encounter with the material (e.g., Stick figures are fine.)

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Faculty Focus

MAY 21, 2024

Working with elementary education students, we stress to our students that ideas and information generated from AI programs must be balanced and supported by meaningful learning experiences created by teachers’ knowledge of the students enrolled in the class. Changing English , (2024), 1–14. References Bender, Stuart Marshall.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

It is all about the prompt – this can support English Language Learners or students who may learn differently. Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

Active learning about the world demands that students not only absorb global lessons from books and lectures, but they must go out and experience what’s happening elsewhere. Universities can no longer remain locked behind their charming iron gates, shut off from intellectual and cultural ferment elsewhere.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, Weld North Education consists of two main offerings: Edgenuity (formerly known as e2020), a provider of digital K-12 courseware for physical and virtual schools, and Imagine Learning , which provides online supplemental programs for math, English and Spanish. Last year, Achieve3000 acquired a competitor, Actively Learn.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

It is all about the prompt – this can support English Language Learners or students who may learn differently. Assessment and Evaluation Tools Rubric Generator : Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021). Faculty unease is notable: 54% prefer fully in-person instruction, citing discomfort with digital mediation (Barnes & Noble Education, 2022).

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

In the Minerva Project, TAL is much more interested in the technology that allows the company to run online, asynchronous seminars (dubbed “ The Active Learning Forum ”) than launching new universities. Companies that once thrived on English and tutoring services are looking to diversify their offerings. edtech startups include.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

STEM should be a catalyst for active learning. Learned enough English to transition into regular classes in 8th grade, finished all high school coursework by 11th grade, now taking 5 AP classes as a senior. Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Kim Reynolds & Mary Andringa.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Overreliance on AI risks undermining critical thinking; Pritts (2023) warns that tools generating papers may erode analytical skills, echoing SoTL calls for active learning (Davidson, 2021). Faculty unease is notable: 54% prefer fully in-person instruction, citing discomfort with digital mediation (Barnes & Noble Education, 2022).

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Research shows that by combining physical activity with words, there is greater retention, so use this to your advantage! The game is excellent for the executive function skills of working memory and impulse control and is an exceptional way to activate learning standards.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Teaching kids to read with good accuracy in English takes several years. For many years, educators like myself have turned to the education community on Twitter and other social media platforms to network, find inspiration and share fresh ideas for how to spark active learning in our classrooms.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Social learning via social media builds teamwork, accountability, and shared responsibility for outcomes. Turning Passive Scrolling into Active Learning One of the biggest concerns parents and teachers have is passive scrolling, endless swiping with little value. But educators are flipping the script.

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