eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. We call these differences “variability” and we embrace it.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

A meta-analysis of studies, including data from 145,000 students in 33 nations, tell two notable truths: By age six, kids already see girls as worse than boys at computing and engineering Kids see girls as far superior in reading and writing by age eight, a belief that strengthens over time.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Quijada said his teacher’s belief that he could succeed allowed him to challenge himself in ways he might not have otherwise considered. My favorite lesson is how to solve and write algebraic equations because algebra is the foundation to all mathematics. Now, Quijada channels that positivity into his lessons.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2022

Wherefore art thou Romeo?” Another similarity: Both systems are designed based on the premise that three-dimensionality matters a lot to understanding the art form of theater and the stories it has to offer. The creators of both systems also share the belief that acting out a scene from a play is a natural form of active learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

After a semester where I threw out the syllabus, I was left with an inspiring question: How can I make my future courses more practical and still keep the academic writing and the academic requirements intact? Through their work with KIBO, the pre-service teachers discovered they already had more STEAM skills than they had initially realized.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We told the kids it’s OK to think big and have great ideas, and Philip reinforced this belief by explaining that he “never met a kid who can’t compose.”. Each week, the students wrote an idea that I would send off in a video via Dropbox to both Philip and Russell, who would then write the track.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

I have experimented with writing open textbooks, thanks to the inspiration I received from Robin DeRosa on episodes 183 and 195. There’s always something new I discover to help me better live out my beliefs about teaching. Here’s what I aim to do with this new EdSurge advice column: Recognize that teaching is both an art and a science.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

A few months ago, Debora Spar took the helm at Harvard Business School Online, after a rocky year-long stint as the president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. We asked, “How do you take a small women’s liberal arts college in Manhattan and how should we go online?” Now it has a new leader as well.

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Internet Schools Beliefs Art 195

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Writing about online learning in higher education over the last several years, I often noted the steady growth of remote learning nationwide against the sluggish adoption of digital instruction among most Ivy League colleges. Virtual instruction continues to whiz across the country, racing recently with unprecedented gains.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

Ajima launched the National Hispanic Heritage Month Maker Challenge , calling on ELL, Art, and Spanish educators and students around the country to create digitally fabricated art pieces and share them. Ajima realized that if he wanted digital fabrication designs that celebrated his students’ backgrounds, they’d have to create them.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. This dedication exemplifies his belief in the potential of every learner.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google To get a broader perspective, I also posed this question to professionals from different industries, working in film, writing, teaching, museums and technology companies big and small. For art: create it, present it, try to sell it, get feedback and repeat. What is “creative writing”?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

His guiding belief is that “modern video games have the potential to be taught as humanely and deeply as any traditional text.” According to Fallon, “Students are living, shaping and immersed within a modular, meme-soaked, multimedia world, and video games are a dominant art form within that world.” and “Look who joined us!”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

STEAM-based learning emphasizes both hands-on and digital experiences with engineering, art, game design, prototyping in makerspaces, authoring, robotics, and much more. Educational innovators might: Write a book - publish on Kindle or iTunes. Another rising educational innovator is K-5 art teacher, Tricia Fuglested.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school , work , and as a citizen , teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing instruction including the overlapping processes of drafting, review, and revision. The act of writing, in and of itself, is not enough.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It was not the belief that technology has yet to be harnessed to its highest potential that surprised me. We crawl before we walk, just like we memorize sight words before we write prose. In art class, painting in watercolors becomes a three-dimensional rendering using tools like Google’s Tilt Brush.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. And they immediately wanted to write those students off. If so, what’s driving the trend? And what can professors and higher ed leaders do about it?

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

It started last summer, when I participated in Adjacent Academies , a new experiential learning program for college students that combines technical skills training with liberal arts. The experience helped me develop new skills that have transformed how I think about my personal and professional growth.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

University of Notre Dame Professor Susan Blum writes that 68% of college students admit to “cutting and pasting material from the Internet without citation.” A misguided reward system can push ambitious, high-performing high school students toward cheating in the belief that their plagiarized essays can earn better grades.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

I always envied how he could talk, tell stories, and write about big ideas in simple, jargon-free terms. Any of his speeches or writings make you think for hours, days, years! He explained with pride that he has figured angles and curvature to obtain the greatest grace, and said, “I want to be a person who puts math and art together.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At first, he looked into starting his own university through his foundation, Gibson writes in his book, “ Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University.” So we’ve been wondering: What happened to the public belief in college? You look across all sorts of fields.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Parents push for intense studying out of the belief that even a single point on these exams can make a difference in their child’s fortures, Hu says. In Chinese culture, parents provide as best they can for their children,” says Nicolas Huang, co-founder of Lonely Reader, a digital platform that teaches liberal arts. Jiao asks. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We were joined by two guests: Dennis Hayes, co-author of the book The McDonaldization of Higher Education and a professor of education at the University of Derby, in England; and Kristen Eshleman, director of digital innovation at Davidson College who has grappled with these issues in her own writing (and on her campus).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Core to the charter network’s vision is a belief that students can be empowered to make choices that direct their learning, with guidance from teachers and access to real-time data. What sets Summit apart is how they combine the technology and an instructional model around a belief that students such as Pozo can become self-directed learners.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT was therefore prompted to, “Write a well-written multiple-choice item on equivalent fractions, targeting Depth of Knowledge level 3 (strategic thinking).” Here is a typical example: In one class session, student teachers were learning how to construct high-quality multiple-choice items at varying levels of rigor.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Students could also be asked to write a one-minute paper or longer reflection paper about their key takeaways from the activity, such as experiencing and/or overcoming challenges in working with people in real life from different cultural backgrounds both inside and outside of the classroom. You express your feelings and opinion through art.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Students could also be asked to write a one-minute paper or longer reflection paper about their key takeaways from the activity, such as experiencing and/or overcoming challenges in working with people in real life from different cultural backgrounds both inside and outside of the classroom. You express your feelings and opinion through art.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. Can you write well? The nonprofit’s latest push to make mastery learning mainstream involves partnering with school districts who adopt Khan Academy’s materials and platform.

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Learning Schools Math Grades 161

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

analog: Examples of the affordances of multimedia storytelling – How is writing changing because of digital and online? Challenging our thinking and beliefs is a wonderful experience. Very concrete in terms of identifying the specific problems and potential solutions and then writing that narrative to describe that landscape.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

These activities will create confidence in their skills, interest in the content, value in what they are reading, and belief in the importance of reading. Yes, research shows that self-confidence, interest in the material, and collaborative reading and writing are just as important in the digital world as they are in the print world.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Teaching is an art and the greatest teachers have far more to offer than their delivered curriculum. I developed a greater belief in myself, my students and our school — that we all had a role in changing culture for the better. He also blogs about creativity and the craft of writing. Around this time, I first got on Twitter.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2019

If you watch the news, tolerance seems to be a lost art. In writing, this is a powerful storytelling device called “show don’t tell” It means instead of talking about tolerance, be tolerant. College kids shout down speakers. Mobs throw chairs through windows. Hordes of hooligans loot stores.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

An Ivy League-educated philanthropist, who built his wealth from a career in technology, decides to champion education as his next cause—under the belief that today’s schools are not adequately preparing the next generation for the future. Each case looks different: some are tech-driven, some are liberal arts-driven, some are who knows what.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

ChatGPT was therefore prompted to, “Write a well-written multiple-choice item on equivalent fractions, targeting Depth of Knowledge level 3 (strategic thinking).” Here is a typical example: In one class session, student teachers were learning how to construct high-quality multiple-choice items at varying levels of rigor.

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Teacher Toms Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

Psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik, a pioneering researcher, writes in her book The Gardener and the Carpenter : "By far the most important and interesting problem for young children is figuring out what's going on in other people's minds. I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 15 years.

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