eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

Actively Learn. Actively Learn is an interactive e-reading platform where students can highlight and annotate text as they read. The site contains thousands of free ELA, science, and history texts, from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to George Washington’s Farewell Address. What’s It Like?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

Before that, Roe led the school marketing team at Learning Ally, a nonprofit that offers solutions for students with dyslexia, and Catapult Learning, a leading provider of instructional services. Fairlamb has a 24-year history of leading sales and marketing functions for SaaS business in the K-12 educational technology market.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2023

BenQ has a long history of supporting teachers and the esports industry with state-of-the-art visualization solutions built around an arsenal of tools and features that define a positive learning and gaming experience,” said Bob Wudeck, senior director of business development at BenQ Education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

And that has led more professors to experiment with flipped classrooms , where they can record short lecture videos that they ask students to watch as homework, leaving more class time for more active learning such as working in groups. Other industries have experienced similar histories as new technologies rolled in.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Place-based instruction allows us to learn more about our region today, the history of the people and their varied perspectives, and to establish a culture of citizenship and community pride to foster growth for future generations. What was the purpose of reading through history in chronological order? Staff before students?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Community-based learning encourages students to find and solve local issues. And the related place-based learning sees students explore the history and culture of their own region. The concepts inherent to active learning are not new. Many schools are still wedded to the test scores, drill and kill.”

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Encourage them to explore, engage their critical thinking and active learning skills. Introduce the History toolbar (right side) as an undo feature (like Ctrl+Z in Word). If you’re not sure about the ‘fix’, go over to the right side to the ‘history’ tab.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

The narrative I often hear centers on how students may resist active learning approaches, a teaching style that often (but not always) is predicated on some technology. The idea that the social environment we create (or don’t create) impacts the learning experience is sadly too new a concept in college teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Encourage them to explore, engage their critical thinking and active learning skills. Introduce the History toolbar (right side) as an undo feature (like Ctrl+Z in Word). Then have them select the ‘Help’ files. This takes them to the Adobe CS website and exposes a vast database of questions and answers.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

Utilizing historical artifacts that reflect influential moments in history, educators guide students through structured learning experiences and activities that provide opportunities for text analysis and collaboration. Literacy supports are woven throughout lessons and enhance teachers’ literacy instruction. ·

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s about creating immersive experiences to make history come alive, or using a pop song as a hook to make a 400-year-old Shakespeare play more relevant to students. moment when a seemingly unintelligible math problem suddenly becomes understandable.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

I am actively learning about people across the globe who have different religious and cultural ways of life than I do. Another strategy is drawing computer science back into the liberal arts , to better root technology in disciplines like history and sociology that explore social issues.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

With that in mind, I recently did some sleuthing of my own and tracked down a half dozen history and geography teachers around my age who remember time spent hunched over TVs and early PCs, discovering for the first time that the world was much bigger and more exciting than our backyards. Physical geography is important,” Keller says.

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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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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For a history teacher, explain how a VR helmet can teach students about past civilizations through a virtual exploration of ancient Rome. . . Instead of explaining the hypothetical uses of a virtual reality helmet, show teachers how using mixed reality gear can be a helpful tool specific to their class material.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But they’re learning through songs, poems and dance” related to Black history and Black life. We have designed apps that will give kids a different type of learning experience—play-based and interactive. She adds: “There’s a big difference between an active learning experience versus that glazed-over look kids get.”

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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.” In the past most consumers have been less concerned than professional educators about the “research” behind the learning products they buy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2025

Read more here: the history of National Library Week American Library Association. Here are my favorite online libraries with you ( click here for updates to the list): For Children Aesop for Children collection of fables Actively Learn add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

In the mathematics department, we're very committed to active learning. We basically start with active learning and work our way backward from there. And there's a massive amount of pedagogical data that suggests that active learning is in many ways better than lecture for most situations, if not all, situations.

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

For instance, Furr High School in Texas, which happened to be the first listed on the XQ site, promises: Furr High School will activate learning through a project- and place-based model grounded in the rigors of environmental and nutritional sciences.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

The assignment he revised was from a course he taught in 2012 about the history of mathematics and cryptography that fulfilled a campus writing requirement. One of his major recommendations: Try a flipped classroom , where students watch lectures via video and spend class time on active learning exercises.

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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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

China boasts the longest continuous history of standardized testing, dating back to the imperial examinations starting in its second dynasty, in 206 BC. That history is not lost on investors. (Tutoring often also operates hand-in-hand with overseas college admissions consulting businesses.).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

They make use of a digital classroom interaction tool, dubbed the Active Learning Forum , which allows for lively virtual experience, including polling, cold calling and stats captured, and even allowing teachers to go back and watch “game tape” to give additional comments or feedback to students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

After reading about the results of learning studios on other campuses, JCCC partnered with classroom furniture company. Herman Miller to create their first learning studio. Dean Miller says the college plans to convert many more classrooms to the active-learning format over the next few years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

The curricular elements of it really were germinated when I was an undergraduate, and it was actually driven out of a course I took my freshman year about the history of American Higher education and how universities relate to their society. So, technology enables you to do fully active learning better than you could without technology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Furthermore, hands-on activities such as simulations, role-playing exercises, and interactive demonstrations offer students opportunities to apply theoretical knowledge in practical contexts. This immediate feedback loop fosters deeper understanding and promotes active learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

K-12 schools house many kinds of valuable student data that appeal to bad actors–everything from personally identifiable information like social security numbers to medical histories. Schools can reduce their risk of data breaches by fostering a culture of cybersecurity best practices among students, parents, educators, and staff.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Step four in Finks guide consists of the teaching and learning activities, which in order to create significant learning opportunities, must incorporate active learning. Active learning thus includes the act of students doing things which requires experiential opportunities and reflective dialogue.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Step four in Finks guide consists of the teaching and learning activities, which in order to create significant learning opportunities, must incorporate active learning. Active learning thus includes the act of students doing things which requires experiential opportunities and reflective dialogue.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

VR tools, such as Oculus, allow students to explore virtual worlds, while AR tools like Google Expeditions overlay digital information onto the real world, offering new ways to learn about history, science, and geography.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

A solution: Build support communities among faculty that model inclusive, consensus-building learning environments and model teaching and learning using trauma-informed evidence-based practices. Connected faculty will build connected students who will become connected alumni and that is good for the bottom line.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For community college faculty, this history contextualizes AI’s rapid ascent, highlighting its capacity to augment teachingyet it also underscores the need for critical oversight, a theme explored next. Ethical Considerations: Equity and Agency Ethical dilemmas loom large.

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Apple for the Teach

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Coloring pages , crafts, and design activities are all about nurturing creativity and fine-tuning those motor skills. Teaching Cultural Significance : Halloween printables can be a cool way for kids to explore the history and cultural significance of this spooky holiday. Set up escape room puzzles, spooky word problems, or riddles.

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