Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. What is Actively Learn. CCSS) and can include embedded questions, scaffolded notes, and topical media.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Middle College High School, a public charter school within Gallup-McKinley County Public School District, today announced it has selected Discovery Education’s innovative digital resources to support student science explorations.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 today announced an expansion of its partnership with Discovery Education that adds a new, cutting-edge resource to the district’s middle school and high school science curriculum. In addition, Shiloh CUSD #1 uses Discovery Education’s Science Techbooks.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are three active learning strategies? Active learning strategies for students in K-12 encompass a range of techniques designed to promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding. Role-playing and simulations promote active engagement and foster a deeper connection to the subject matter.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Of course the benefits of active learning are apparent beyond the kindergarten sector. Research has shown that “ most students learn fundamental concepts more successfully, and are better able to apply them, through interactive, collaborative, student-centered learning.” Related Posts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

It allows you to create or search pre-made question sets and host a variety of games that students can join. Students answer multiple-choice questions on their devices while seeing fun memes, leaderboards, and progress bars. Other question types include fill-in-the-blank, true or false, drag-and-drop, and matching.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

“Inquiry is central to the nature of science, and students learn best when activities are closely linked to key scientific concepts. That level of inquiry is enhanced with student-driven activities designed to reach every learner,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science?

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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. Randomized questions.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions. Actively Learn is an online interactive platform where students learn through “layers”–the discussion questions that structure readings.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

The VCSC community sees educational technology’s potential to advance relationships between teachers and their students, shrink long-standing accessibility gaps, and increase the depth of learning experiences for all children. Discovery Education Science Techbooks. Mystery Science.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

Click below to listen and scroll down for details and selected edited highlights: Creating Curious Classrooms is a free professional learning series for school and science curriculum leaders that takes a fresh approach to how the latest digital resources and tools can be integrated into instruction to drive engagement.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2015

When thinking back to the moment that made him a flipped classroom convert, Lee Graves, a high school science teacher at ISD 15 in Minnesota, recalls a quote he heard from an ISTE 2012 keynoter: “If the kids aren’t learning, it’s not them, it’s you.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

For the student that wants to prepare for in-class conversation, preparing and providing a few open-ended reading reflection questions (launchpad ideas) may be useful. The questions are intentional few in nature so students can focus on responding to one or two and reading to find solid text evidence to support responses.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Pivot Interactives, which joined the Discovery Education family of solutions in 2022, makes teaching science with active learning and scientific phenomena engaging and easy.

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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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MAY 22, 2025

or use the centers for expanded learning in each of the subjects you are teaching throughout that week (for example the math center might be place value related, science is the scientific method, writing is complete sentences, and so on). Where do you get ideas for classroom centers activities? This list could go on for days.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. They’re part of the group doing flipped learning.” It has been implemented so variably.”

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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. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. Black, Latinx, and women students are especially at risk.

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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. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Their developing brains observe and question the new, unfamiliar or confusing in an effort to understand the world and their place in it. Such exploration is key to learning. Research has shown that tools like Pear Deck that support active learning can improve equity, reduce achievement gaps and help improve school culture.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

. –Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind This year many schools will continue to focus on ensuring that their curriculum and instruction aligns with the science of reading. Using models to accelerate learning through focus, intensity, coherence, and specificity still stand as high-leverage methods of instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. So 90 percent didn't get this.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person. I took a very similar approach when I taught online at The New School in Manhattan a few years ago.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

— Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? With the rise of AI comes AR/VR. Happy new school year!

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

With Pear Deck, now part of leading digital learning company GoGuardian, educators can transform lessons into impactful formative assessments and active learning experiences that seamlessly integrate with learning management systems.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We times more likely to fail compared to their peers in active-learning classes.

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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

JULY 14, 2021

Actively Learn (Curriculum Platform for Grades 3-12) offers complete curriculum units for ELA, science, and social studies, new culminating activities and assessments, additional question types, and a design upgrade. For an animated video walkthrough, click here. About Achieve3000.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

EdSurge spoke with Singer about inspiration, engagement and how his vision of a classroom video capture and distance learning platform that connects the dots is transforming teaching and learning in more than 500 institutions around the world. You can see how they learn: Are they doing their homework? Taking notes?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

But others might have considered challenge-based, community-based or even case-based learning. The fact that three letters can mean so many different things raises an obvious question: Have we reached peak “based” learning? Community-based learning encourages students to find and solve local issues.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

After the first class ends, I like to ask my students to complete one additional task to round out “preview day,” which is to answer several questions in the learning management system. These questions reside in a discussion board so all students can see responses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

And the list included an interview with a Nobel prize winner about his research to improve science instruction; a set of reader responses to our coverage of “math wars”; and a look at what’s keeping teachers from embracing edtech. That has led him to promote active learning — and to look for better ways to evaluate teaching.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

After the first class ends, I like to ask my students to complete one additional task to round out “preview day,” which is to answer several questions in the learning management system. These questions reside in a discussion board so all students can see responses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

And I was like, ‘But I've been here the whole time, and I've actively paid attention and done it.’ Probably some people look the questions up online because it's an online test a lot of the time. Active Learning Strategies I still had one more class to go on my visit. And just having a really frank discussion with them.”

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