k12

JULY 10, 2025

There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Active, engaged learners retain information better, participate more fully, and develop a deeper understanding of the material. That’s true in traditional classrooms and also true in online settings.

Online Learning

k12

JULY 28, 2025

With K12, each pathway has different classes, hands-on activities, resources, and even career clubs and professional organizations to join. Industry certifications are credentials that demonstrate to employers your skills and knowledge in a specific area. What are industry credentials for students, and how does K12 help with those?

High School

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

So, what are the three active strategies? 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. What are active study strategies?

Activities

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

In June, Dartmouth College dropped a cheating investigation into medical students following the dubious use of Canvas to track perceived activity during exams. It’s a timely one, too, as recent news has shown just how tired students are of secret monitoring. software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

Ethics

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.

Active Learning

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. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. Khan Academy is an online program designed to teach math skills starting from where student knowledge is.

Activities

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

For students to be truly prepared for their futures, they need academic knowledge, technical expertise, and workforce skills that translate directly into the workplace. Employers seek candidates who not only have technical knowledge, but also have problem-solving skills, adaptability, and communication skills.

Gamification

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Through the easy-to-use templates, educators can create real-time polls to assess knowledge, check for misconceptions, or gather feedback. Quiz allows educators to embed questions directly into videos, turning passive watching into active engagement. I love that I can find a library of pre-created quizzes or create my own.

Evaluation

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

When we examine what are active learning teaching strategies, these strategies empower educators to create interactive classrooms where students actively participate, collaborate, and apply knowledge to real-world situations. What are active learning teaching strategies? What are three active learning strategies?

Active Learning

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. These are the stations they must attend in the rotation.

Metacognitive Skills

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

The EvolveMe platform gives teens access to and rewards them for completing high-quality, professional career experimentation activities and building transferable skills they can apply to any job. For instance, they can see their personalized tree grow as it sprouts unique flowers and creatures each time they complete an activity.

Mobile Devices

eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2016

note : Today’s students have too many tests to take—but today’s teachers still need insight into their classes’ knowledge and skills. It can be something as simple as a thumbs up/thumbs down, exit tickets when students leave the classroom, use of digital tools, or actual quizzes. It changed the entire lesson for the better.”

Teachers

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

It is a dynamic, interconnected space where knowledge flows freely, and learners are active participants in their educational journey. Classroom response systems for instant feedback and engagement through quizzes, polls, and surveys. The classroom of the modern era is no longer confined to four walls and rows of desks.

Internet

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.

Art

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).

Lecturing

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. 70% of K-8 U.S.

Activities

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. Resources available include help files, the digital tool’s website, how-to videos, and knowledgeable students and adults. Kids are no different. complete a project using tool.

Activities

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Do you want to help students transition effectively from one learning activity to another? Priming prepares students for upcoming information or a learning activity before they receive the information or participate in the activity in a course. These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice.

Knowledge

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.

Active Learning

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.

Active Learning

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. “We are sounding the alarm on the declining civic knowledge among our nation’s youth,” said Carolyn Cawley president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Math

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ChatGPT does have major limitations: its limited knowledge base only pulls from data prior to September 2021; it has no personal experiences or emotions to draw from; it may generate inaccurate information; and it does not have the ability to critically think and/or analyze information.

Ethics

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2018

Gimkit was created by two high school students and offers quizzes that let students earn money and super skills. Animations are brought to life and an activity guide lets teachers open up extra resources for students. The site also features standards alignment and classroom activities.

Mobile Devices

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. WordExtractor can also be used to build assignments such as quizzes to help evaluate students’ mastery of selected words. More engaging “Basecamp” ?The Trailblazing the Mountain Path ?As

Distance Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Constructivism is a student-centered philosophy that emphasizes hands-on learning and active participation in lessons. Constructivists believe that learning is an active process so the most effective way to learn is through discovery. Students constantly build new understanding on old knowledge. Learning is iterative.

Beliefs

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?

Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Based on my experience, this builds engagement overall because students know that they need to pay attention as there are quizzes at regular intervals. . Have students complete interactive activities and exercises online. Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience.

Exams

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Which learning activities are most important to do together? It essentially asks: What activities are best for independent learning versus learning together? Quizzes and adaptive learning software give students opportunities to review content and practice basic skills with immediate feedback.

Blended Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

QuizGecko: Versatility and Innovation Among the leading AI-powered quiz generators, QuizGecko is a versatile tool that can transform text, documents, or URLs into captivating interactive quizzes. Riddle: User-Friendly Engagement A user-friendly quiz maker, Riddle offers an intuitive interface for crafting engaging quizzes.

Quizzes

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

the company offers an app that lets kids access unlimited books, educational videos, quizzes and audiobooks — and it’s free for educators. The content is personalized overtime as kids start reading, interacting and taking quizzes. founders Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue set out to build the Netflix of children’s books.

Reading

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.

Lecturing

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 29, 2024

Lousy cybersecurity practices or lack of knowledge about them often affect more than one person at a time. Bad actors can do that by checking children’s social media accounts and their activities and interests. For example, a proxy server can still see a user’s activity and act as an intermediary between a device and the Internet.

Internet

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.

Quizzes

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Several key areas highlight the transformative effects of technology on education: Access to Information: The internet has become a vast repository of information, providing students and educators with unprecedented access to a wealth of knowledge. Innovative Assessment Methods: Technology has introduced innovative assessment methods.

Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

The exception is BrainPOP — there are no ads, but it requires a hefty annual fee: BrainPOP Fremium BrainPOP is a collection of three-five minute animated movies, learning games, quizzes, and interactive activities for grades 3-8 addressing a wide variety of topics such as math, science, social studies, health, art, and technology.

Quizzes

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I saw a brilliant high school student named Curtis help his father build a shed in the backyard and initiate a Black Lives Matter activism project. He could also incorporate his knowledge of building codes, accessibility considerations, and CAD modeling. caretaking for a newborn sister with a single working parent at home.

Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Be comfortable in your knowledge of all facets of digital citizenship. Integrate keyboarding skills into classroom activities and prepare for yearly assessments.

Teaching