eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. The survey polled 825 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. ” This press release originally appeared online.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Approximately 9 million low-income students lack both the hardware and the internet connectivity to enable virtual learning, which “represents a national emergency,” the authors of the report write. Ensuring that all students have high-speed internet access and functioning devices is a baseline requirement for virtual learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Learning has no temporal or geographic borders and is available wherever students and teachers find an Internet connection. This used to mean limiting access to the Internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) to discourage students from using an infinite and fascinating resource. Break the class into two.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The last time I taught in a physical college classroom was in 1999, when my adult students shook off their weariness from a day of working and taking care of their children to pay attention to their classmates and me for three hours. I recall one student who would wait until the night of the assignment deadline to dive into their schoolwork.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Some reasons why you may find these tools beneficial are: Organization: organize lesson plans, assignments, and resources efficiently Communication: between teachers, students, and parents to foster a collaborative relationship, keep everyone informed Student Engagement: to make learning more interesting and interactive Time Management: schedule reminders, (..)

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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. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Additional attention needs to be given to all types of learners by addressing various learning modalities, intervention paths, and students with Individual Education Plans through technology that is customizable, integrated, and aligned to state standards. Ray Sabourin, Business Development Private Wireless Networks US Enterprise, Nokia.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. This topic has gained some attention in recent years, as the mission to connect all U.S. While most schools in the U.S. In at least two towns—Athens, Ga.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Here’s what a few of them said: “It’s a little harder to learn the material because the teachers are not actually present, and it’s all through the internet.” “I Otherwise, Moore says, “students may not have the motivation to be self-directed and do the material that has been assigned to them.” It is harder to learn new topics at home.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Moreover, the fact that the actual assignment was still completed on paper and turned into the bin on my desk at the end of the period allowed reluctant students a smoother transition into the paperless world. I set up all students with traditional paper-pencil textbook work on their assigned literary movement.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And except for relatively new options by for-profit upstarts, the options haven’t changed much in decades, despite the rise of the internet and a knowledge economy. Soon after, a professor from the University of Colorado at Boulder started assigning some of those materials for a “Shakespeare in Film” class. College in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Several lacked reliable internet service at home which proved to be a tremendous challenge for my home-bound students. While the intention to offer students access to the school’s internet was good, it seemed unreasonable to expect students to do that. "It I competed with these jobs for my students’ attention.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

During a lesson, it was easy to see students’ reactions—if they were paying attention, confused, or engaged—and I could adjust on the spot as needed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned. I can cut a lot of slack, extend deadlines or excuse assignments. Now, students are even more easily distracted.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2022

Because it is internet-based, it works well on any platform, any device, and seamlessly syncs between work started at school and finished at home. This complexity takes time and attention away from what matters–a positive and engaging in-class learning experience. It maps lesson materials to the curriculum and assignments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Upon the release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, we noticed that some of our students had suddenly become “experts” at synthesizing research and organizing their term papers, often resulting in perfect scores on their written assignments.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Attention spans are shorter for younger students than their older peers, who also need less parental involvement to complete assignments. That seems to be referring to actual screen time or formal assessment or assignment work.” Variable Guidelines Still, some things are a given, Rice says. Across the country in Bethesda, Md.,

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. They have to learn just like other students, but they can also have to deal with assignments they can’t access and other digital hurdles.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Hardware, internet availability and connectivity, alongside learning materials to support instruction—from age-appropriate books to paper, pencils, glue and scissors—vary substantially from household to household, just as the capacity to provide and respond to these needs varies from one district to the next. Let’s be frank.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Another is assigned seats. As a teacher standing in front of an audience who simply cannot put their phones down, the diminishing attention span of my students takes a toll. Each fall, every teacher must wage a few key wars with a new class of students. In my classroom, one battle is around bathroom usage.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2017

Guest author, Emily Clearly over at mysimpleshow has ten more reasons why videos are a great educational tool for your teaching: Videos are in line with the technological times and can be accessed on the Internet at any point, from wherever you are in the world. Education is something that will never go out of style.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This variety not only captures students’ attention but also caters to different learning styles, helping all students grasp the material more effectively. Access to Resources : The internet provides a wealth of educational materials, including online courses, research databases, and multimedia content.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Australia is paying a lot more attention to this than any other country in the world,” says Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California at San Diego. Still, no type of assignment is cheat-proof, she adds. Plenty of college administrators in the U.S., to combat contract cheating.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 29, 2015

tracks student progress on assigned activities. It caught my attention because the conversation was straightforward, plain-speaking, and hit my high points. More management tools for your classroom: 4 Options for a Class Internet Start Page. assesses student learning (both formative and summative). So I agreed to review it.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Inequities in student access to reliable internet service and personal technology are not insurmountable. We assumed that all students had internet access at home, and they don’t. Once we began deploying Chromebooks, I started getting emails from students: “My father lost his job, and we had to reduce our Internet.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Challenges and Excitements: The speakers note the excitement and confusion surrounding AI in education, akin to the early days of the internet, emphasizing the importance of discerning what’s truly transformative. It depends on, you know, I guess how we define cheating and and the the tasks we assign to kids.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Interactive tools such as educational apps, videos, and virtual simulations make lessons more dynamic, capturing students’ attention and encouraging active participation. Digital tools like Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams enable students to work together on assignments and projects, even outside the classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2024

Feeling a bit rusty, she turned to the internet to seek out activities suitable for little Tadeo and advice for how best to support him. Since February, Stephanie, the home visitor assigned to Bravo, has been visiting her and Tadeo twice a week. She found some resources online, such as songs to sing with him, but Bravo wanted more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

A math teacher has a better chance of holding students’ attention during class time if they make technology part of the lesson. Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. Not only that, but it also has a positive impact on learners.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Here are 7 benefits of technology in education: Increased Engagement : Interactive tools such as educational apps, games, and multimedia presentations help capture students’ attention and make learning more enjoyable, making even difficult subjects easier to understand.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 20, 2020

As we try to figure out what schooling will look like in the months to come, we need to pay attention to the motivators and demotivators that help foster student engagement. They decide that the exchange rate has shifted and they’re no longer interested, regardless of our pleas (or punishments) to the contrary.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Educators need to give fascinating and fun assignments for students to complete. Not to mention that there’s more freely available content on the internet than one could consume over several lifetimes. For all the new connectedness it offers, it can sometimes make kids feel that they get less personal attention from teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

The internet is full of guides on how to resolve various issues with Turnitin, but that’s still not enough to cover all possible problems. Copyleaks is the second plagiarism checker similar to Turnitin that caught our attention. However, no cheating techniques like adding special symbols will escape your attention with this checker.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

We provide them with access to powerful, general-purpose computing devices, access to the internet, and time—and at younger and younger ages. Doug Levin To wit: when 12 year-olds can breach the IT systems of organizations with $100 million-plus budgets, how should we assign blame? This is in no way a new phenomenon.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

University of Texas at Austin psychology instructor Brooke Miller adds that the internet and YouTube have changed instruction. “We One professor might love the idea of “chunking up” the class with a video break, while another might prefer to assign videos as homework in a flipped classroom approach. Make videos engaging and appealing.

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