eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Classrooms may be student-driven, might focus on project-based learning, or may offer learning through a specialized topic such as STEM. What is a learning activity in a classroom? Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation. Thomas School near Seattle hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by starting them young and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring robots and 3D virtual reality computers. meghan.bogardu….

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Key points: All students are math language learners, regardless of their home language Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs How to support multilingual learners in STEM For more news on language learners, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Math isnt just about numbers. Sentence stems (a.k.a. A square has sides.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Current statistics show that scholars of color and females are underrepresented in STEM fields across the country, and so FWPS is actively taking steps to provide STEM and STEAM (STEM with an emphasis on the arts) opportunities for each scholar from kindergarten through high school graduation. Career pathways.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

In addition to using technology in my own biology courses, I also work with faculty across the country on how to teach with technology through an inclusive lens. 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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last summer, not far from the doorsteps of Oakland Unified School District, a group of parents came together to build an academic program from scratch in an effort to close the gap between the education their children were getting in school and the education they deserved.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In northern New Mexico, Taos Academy Charter School , where one of us, Elizabeth LeBlanc, serves as the director of teaching and learning, uses a flexible schedule to conduct one-on-one and small group work in the afternoons and to offer on-demand support through Homework Hotlines in the morning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

And in grades K-5, computer science is an integral part of the STEM program and added when possible to larger project-based learning activities. Collaboration and group work is fundamental. But as students work on more advanced projects, the tasks can quickly get difficult. Here’s where collaboration is key.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

By making small notes and finding a few backup activities just in case things start to unravel, I’m more prepared and confident. In my classroom, we do a lot of partner and group work, so I often need to plan ahead for possible challenges during periods of collaboration. Sometimes I even add them to my lesson plans.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I’m looking forward to integrating more fun AI activities like that in my classroom in the fall. Logie-Bates: In my role, I work with teachers, so I'm really looking forward to developing these projects and lessons with them. Even the yoga and machine learning capstone project we created for the program—it’s something fun.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

That is an inherent problem that we have to work through. If you put it in a place where students are getting up, presenting, using that resource, being able to have a voice in the classroom or having interactive groups working with the displays, then it puts students at the center of the learning. CDW Activity ID.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By thinking, he means actively engaging with the course material. So here we have in a thinking classroom: The students standing at the whiteboards in their random groups of three, one marker per group, working on these thinking tasks. But it also means that we can't pre-teach them how to do it.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

UNC Charlotte, for example, has the Active Learning Academy, which brings in speakers and offers internal education opportunities as well as a STEM Academy, which models evidenced-based practices in a fun, informative way and even pays participants a small stipend.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

MARCH 13, 2025

Weve focused a lot on test-taking tips and strategies in previous posts , so this post will be packed with practical strategies to support your students during test days to boost their confidence and help them recover with engaging, low-stress activities after they put their test-taking pencils down!

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Building a Digital Learning Culture In a traditional classroom, culture is built through physical presence: greetings at the door, shared lunchtime, or spontaneous group work. But online schools have to work harder to build this same community. 30-day STEM challenge or History fact chain).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2019

One of our initiatives was to include STEM activities in our science lessons. After looking around at my students, I realized the main reason they were struggling was that they simply weren’t working together as teams. Most of the time, introverts feel like they get steamrolled during group work.

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Scholarly Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Using T-I CoI to purposefully design activities that encourage students to foster relationships with one another and the instructor promotes well-being and a collaborative learning environment. Allow group work during class time to minimize barriers to connecting with classmates.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Active learning strategies, where students actively engage in the learning process, promote participation and retention (Freeman et al. These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Active learning strategies, where students actively engage in the learning process, promote participation and retention (Freeman et al. These include group discussions, hands-on experiments, problem-solving activities, and creative assessments that encourage critical thinking and peer collaboration.

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