eSchool News

MAY 16, 2016

iTooch 6th Grade Language Arts. iTooch 6th Grade Language Arts is a resource for middle school language arts classrooms. Its five sections offer lessons, practice questions, and quizzes on a wide range of topics, including reading comprehension, grammar, composition skills, vocabulary, and communication.

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MAY 13, 2024

From virtual reality field trips to interactive quizzing platforms, these 12 tools offer diverse ways to bring lessons to life. Interactive Quizzing Platforms Interactive quizzing platforms are revolutionizing the way educators assess understanding and retention in the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Student performance in math and English language arts on spring state test scores in 2023 went up by 2 percentage points from the prior year, highlighting slow academic recovery after the pandemic. That required more than 10,000 public school students to attend summer school in 2023 – double the number from the year before.

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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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

He was resourceful and creative, yet he was prevented from graduating with his classmates in June because he didn’t complete a half credit of an art class. 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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2018

video, quizzes) and share them publicly with other users. McGraw-Hill introduces a new English language arts software for grades 2-7 called Redbird Language Arts & Writing. Kahoot adds the ability to create and host quizzes and other content from its mobile app.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Instead, de Santiago sees a vocabulary lesson her college-level Spanish language classes won’t soon forget, bringing new context to terms like “borracho” (drunk) and the chorus (which translates to “only with you”). It shows language, it shows emotions.” It’s a great motivation, music. million this week.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Quizzes and adaptive learning software give students opportunities to review content and practice basic skills with immediate feedback. Videos that teachers create or curate—individually or as grade-level or departmental teams—can provide effective coverage of basic content.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

We have done a lot of quizzes and equations. Students in schools with the SEP program begin by learning block-based programming languages like Scratch before getting into robotics, physical computing, text-based programming like Python and web development.

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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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

I spent time researching the Hanson brothers and gathering facts in my A-Z Hanson book, complete with quizzes and fun facts, then transferred that knowledge to my very own GeoCities website. So to set myself apart from other fans and gain that chance, I created a Hanson website. I was driven by the desire to meet the band.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. From the new Video Player page, teachers can: Build interactive video quizzes or slideshow activities in a few simple steps. Reach all learners with embedded language and accessibility supports.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

To supplement these quizzes and measure growth, I have created a questionnaire in which students answer three questions about the multiple-choice items: what made the question challenging; what strategies can I use to get this type of question correct in the future; and why is the correct answer the best choice?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The platform comes from the same stables — of MIT Media Lab — as Scratch, the free-to-use, ubiquitous coding language popular with young people from across the world. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard,” says Deepak Cheenath, co-founder of Quizizz, a classroom tool that lets teachers create pop quizzes and games.

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AUGUST 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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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MARCH 22, 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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Dually certified in special education and English Language Arts, I teach an ELA inclusion class to 11th and 12th graders, which means I serve students with and without Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) in the same setting.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

To date, Quizlet currently has more than 200 million study sets, which are user-generated collections of flashcards, games, quizzes and other interactive activities. This latest fundraise, along with new product additions, will help the company realize those ambitions, claims Quizlet CEO Matt Glotzbach.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

There are many interactive tools available that can be used to create quizzes, games, and simulations. Let’s explore some specific examples of interactive tools and activities that can enhance student engagement and provide valuable feedback: Quizzing tools are effective in reinforcing key concepts and assessing student understanding.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Constructionism,” a term Seymour coined in the mid-’80s in connection with the academic work on LOGO, (the children’s computer programming language) and the education movement it spawned, became the basis for our work together at the MIT Media Lab (described in a book we published in 1991). Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

The education publisher will integrate Writable as the writing platform for its digital English & Language Arts curriculum for grades 6-8. The core team behind Writable has been together since 2011, when they founded another startup, Subtext, that offered tools that let teachers embed quizzes and other content into digital texts.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

There are many interactive tools available that can be used to create quizzes, games, and simulations. Let’s explore some specific examples of interactive tools and activities that can enhance student engagement and provide valuable feedback: Quizzing tools are effective in reinforcing key concepts and assessing student understanding.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital assessments and quizzes inject an element of gamification into the learning process, making assessments more engaging and reinforcing key concepts. Interactive response systems, like clickers, enable real-time student feedback and participation in quizzes or polls.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

First up, Google Education announced a new “casting” app for the classroom projector, released the “Expeditions” virtual reality app for all teachers and students, and added a new quizzing feature in Google Forms. Full EdSurge coverage on Google here.) Wondering about Apple?

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AUGUST 9, 2017

It’s adaptable to more than 120 languages and scalable to small groups or large schools. All learning takes place within Moodle, not through videos or quizzes. Quick quizzes that allow students to take a quiz as a warm-up or exit ticket. It’s free. There’s no licensing fee. adding assignments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Alice Chen , an eighth grade language arts teacher and technology coach at Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, California does not use Strunk and White in the classroom. Though she still doesn’t assign it as required reading, Blanton-Stroud refers to parts of Strunk and White in her teaching.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But three months in, she had had enough of watching students in her English language arts class mentally check out from the monotony of the new structure: She read off district-created slides, and then students answered a multiple-choice question by holding up a markerboard where they scribbled an A, B, C or D.

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JANUARY 11, 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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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FEBRUARY 25, 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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Prepare English Language Learners to participate fully in class. Digital forms have become a go-to activity for polls, bell-ringers, exit tickets, quizzes, and more. Prepare English Language Learners. When answers are in the language of students, you’ll be surprised how much simpler it is to get acquainted with the school.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and for some, participate in a weekly video meeting. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

The way that I thought about it was that there’s 20 percent of functionality tools that 80 percent of faculty care about and use—discussion boards, chat tools, grading engines, certain parts of quizzes. Then there’s the 80 percent of tools that only 20 percent of faculty talk about, because they’re specific to a particular discipline.

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APRIL 23, 2018

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. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. Everything is online.

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Whiteboard Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Creating the perfect prompt for AI-driven lesson planning is an art form that blends specificity, clarity, and creativity. This guide will help you master the art of crafting prompts that yield useful, innovative, and tailored lesson plans, ensuring that you get the best possible results for your classroom.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 21, 2025

Five to fifteenminute segments blend video, animation, and interactive quizzes. Workshops introduce AIpowered language labs one month and augmented reality science modules the next. Learners who speak English as an additional language receive realtime captioning and vocabulary support. Can students pursue advanced courses?

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