eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2019

That is, instead of delivering content during class and giving exercises as homework, I had students learn the content at home by watching videos with embedded quizzes. Using Edpuzzle , I was able to turn a passive video into an active learning experience for my students. The embedded quizzes enabled me to view student’s responses.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Given that variability, it makes sense that not all students would need to spend time engaged in the same learning tasks or activities. In a traditional station rotation, all students rotate through the same sequence of learning activities or stations. For example, a teacher might design a station rotation with six stations.

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Metacognitive Skills Math Blended Learning Quizzes 344

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

If you’ve been tasked (or voluntold) to run this activity, here are six activities that will tech-infuse participants: Debate. Then, they assign tasks to group members that include: learn the tool. It uses a combination of videos, whiteboard how-tos, practice exercises, and quick quizzes. teach classmates.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom learning, active learning strategies for students promote student-centered learning environments that enhance academic outcomes and cultivate lifelong learning skills. This strategy promotes active participation, collaboration, and peer learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Branch is known for his logical, easy-to-grasp course design, for his engaging assignments like The Armchair Anthropologist, and for the way his classes seem to fly by—which doesn’t happen by accident. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment. Source: Course Hero. Why did it fail? How do you keep your students engaged?

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

For a literature assignment, I have students design a Canva infographic analyzing a novels themes. Quiz allows educators to embed questions directly into videos, turning passive watching into active engagement. The pre-made quizzes also offer instant feedback, helping students reflect on their learning process.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Oftentimes the learners fail to understand the vocabulary of the book that sets the obstacles for the reading comprehension, or fail to discuss the topic because they lack active vocabulary. The classroom can be a perfect ground for discussions, imagination training, and language improving activities. Forming the Arguments.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

Offering an extensive array of lesson plans, activities, and educational materials, NASA covers a diverse range of STEM topics including space exploration, earth science, and aeronautics. Teachers love these resources and rely on the components of the activities to build background knowledge, provide accessible content, and spark curiosity.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2018

is a platform where teachers create quizzes, discussions, and surveys. A backchannel is a digital conversation that happens at the same time as a face-to-face activity, where students can share their thinking about the topic or assignment. Here are sample questions you can ask: 3 things I learned today. 1 question I still have.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

TEL Education is launching the Student Learning Dashboard to help students clearly see and verbalize the 21st-century skills and competencies they learn across their general education courses and encourage students to take a more active role in their educational journey. Students Lack Context and Ownership. Giving Students Ownership.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2024

Academic studies confirm that interactivity and active learning can greatly enhance student engagement in the classroom. Interactive whiteboard features you can maximize An interactive whiteboard includes many modern features that help enhance active learning and increase engagement.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

How to Get Started with SEL Teachers can emphasize SEL with their students from day one of the school year by flipping their class expectations and beginning with activities that get students collaborating while also practicing classroom routines. The video can be delivered to students via a Post to your Edmodo class or as an assignment.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

It is a dynamic, interconnected space where knowledge flows freely, and learners are active participants in their educational journey. Learning management systems (LMS) that facilitate online content delivery, assignments, and grading. Classroom response systems for instant feedback and engagement through quizzes, polls, and surveys.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

.” BrainPOP family plans are available in three tiers to meet the individual needs of families: BrainPOP GO provides access to all BrainPOP movies and quizzes via the app, available in the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Plans can be purchased individually, or as a combo with BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Making Math Fun for Young Students Turn Math into Learning Stations Textbooks alone wont cut it for young learners, they need movement, hands-on activities, and variety. Use budgeting activities to teach percentageshave students plan a trip with a set budget. Its great for in-class use and also works well as a homework assignment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.). Let’s start with the basics.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Quiz gives multiple ways to promote active learning in the classroom and track progress in real time. The total of 400 existing quizzes makes it quick and easy to customize, or educators can create quizzes from scratch or use as-is for turnkey assignments. Enliven lessons with fun fonts and animated buttons.?.

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Quizzes Education Learning Assignments 177

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Write an Ebook. Then, they assign tasks to group members that include: learn the tool. It uses a combination of videos, white board how-tos, practice exercises, and quick quizzes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. Additionally, gamification features, enhanced by AI, can make learning more engaging and enjoyable by incorporating game elements into educational activities, and motivating through rewards, challenges, and interactive storytelling.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

“By uniting the Promethean Planet and ClassFlow teacher communities, we can empower educators globally with thousands of high-quality interactive teaching resources that can ensure the active engagement and participation of every student in the classroom.”. ClassFlow makes it easy to cater to my students.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies. By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Cengage Learning’s MindTap is a fully built course experience that integrates reading, homework, quizzing, multi-media assets and more. We also developed all new features, such as the flashcard-based Practice Quizzes for the app as a result of our research.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies. By immersing students in dynamic activities, stimulating discussions, and collaborative endeavors, educators can transcend the limitations of the digital realm and revolutionize online teaching. Quizizz , or Google Forms.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Educators can get started with new SOS templates that incorporate these ever-popular strategies into grab-and-go digital lesson activities or start from scratch to add content and elements like gifs and emojis t hat fit the interests of their students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Keep assignments simple. Assignments should be described very clearly so that students can succeed. It can be tempting for teachers to assign lots of independent work. However, teachers should give assignments that are bite-sized and similar to what they would assign on-campus. Focus on healthy living.

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Assignments Learning Schools Quizzes 191

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Since then, I’ve been advancing the term “video paratext” to reflect the myriad ways that we design educational guidance, prompts, activities or interactive elements to surround or be included within a video. What kind of introductory text, video or activity might lead everyone into the assigned video without overwhelming them?

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2020

InferCabulary features new and improved activities for students, plus teacher features that make it easier to implement and integrate into instruction. This powerful tool allows teachers to quickly find InferCabulary words within selected passages of text and build assignments based on those words. More engaging “Basecamp” ?The

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some believe it will cripple the education system and replace human workers ; others denounce ChatGPT as a free essay-writing and test-taking tool that makes it laughably easy to cheat on assignments, while the validity of responses generated by ChatGPT has also been called into question.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2024

Your students can access course materials and complete their assignments on their schedule. You can incorporate multimedia elements like videos, podcasts, and interactive quizzes to make lessons more engaging and cater to different learning styles. It opens up more opportunities for more people.

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Online Learning Education Learning Quizzes 187

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

For any task that feels impossible, adding pieces of social engagement and active learning can be a significant variable toward success. Make it Mobile Mobile devices may not be optimal (or encouraged) for completing every assignment in a course, but there are benefits to matching course activities to mobile use.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As he watched his own kids adjust to online schooling during the pandemic, he felt that Zoom lacked features to let teachers handle standard classroom activities such as taking attendance or giving quizzes.

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Online Learning Technology Quizzes Learning 197

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 10, 2023

Prompted by my own creativity-based journey of self-healing and self-care during the quarantine phase of the pandemic, I have developed four quick activities that can help professors set the tone of their course, build relationships early in the term, and encourage self-care during course meetings. Welcome surveys. major current events).As

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Google Classroom , the company’s online tool that lets teachers, students and parents manage assignments and discussions, will be getting a small facelift as part of 12 updates that Google is announcing at this week’s ISTE conference, an annual K-12 educational technology expo. In other words, the most recent activity sits at the top.)

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Lesson one: Planning teaching presence At our university training during the pandemic, professors learned that enhancing flexibility for online learners involved making all assignments and activities accessible on the first day of class—this way students could work at their own pace.

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Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 126

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. Back then, many were speculating that schools would reopen in a few weeks. I’m not being rude.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. My students do the quiz as a group activity. I vary both the number and type of questions I use on the quizzes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities. For instance, instructors can strategically assign tasks that can be auto-graded, or spot-checked. To incentivize that, I typically assign reading exercises and quizzes.

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