eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you then encourage students to research topics that interest them, they’ll be even more motivated to read and write–and they may even have some fun. I would recommend listening to podcast episodes before assigning them to make sure they’re age-appropriate.) This novel by S.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

The platform’s customization options enable me to design assignments that cater to each student’s unique learning needs, promoting a more inclusive and effective educational experience. This student often found it challenging to stay focused and motivated with conventional paper-based tasks.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

public education system has evolved throughout its history, school libraries have also developed with a consistent central goal: to give students the best opportunity to succeed academically. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work. As the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Design thinking also has a positive impact on the overall motivation and engagement of students. This is a standalone design thinking assignment where students are tasked to learn about or discover a need or issue within our local community by talking with family, friends, or other adults. The History of Design Thinking.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, many schools leverage cloud-based platforms and learning management systems to facilitate seamless communication, assignment distribution, and collaboration. Gamification: Incorporate gamified elements into lessons to make learning enjoyable, fostering intrinsic motivation and a sense of accomplishment among students.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. But motivation is not enough. And perform worse on tests.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

This positively impacts their motivation to engage with tasks. In a secondary English language arts class, rather than assigning a single text to the entire class, teachers can provide a curated list of books or short stories, each highlighting different themes or literary styles.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A well-structured digital study plan can help alleviate this stress by providing a clear path to manage assignments, study sessions, and personal time. With multiple subjects and various types of assignments to manage, keeping your digital materials well-organized can significantly reduce stress and save time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As part of our celebration of Black History Month, EdSurge spoke to Hicks about his culturally relevant approach to closing the digital divide. EdSurge: As an educator, what are your thoughts on Black History Month? Black History Month provides an opportunity to show all students that we have lots of commonalities.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The students in our academy are motivated, passionate and dedicated to learning more about the field they are interested in.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Finally, the teachers were given an assignment: Use construction paper to create a craft symbolizing what they hope to take away from their time at the Smithsonian. history teacher in Pittsburgh.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. 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

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Audiobooks can be used with adolescent readers to improve their reading fluency, expand their vocabulary, develop their comprehension and increase their motivation to interact with books.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They found [AI-assisted text generators] could give inspiration and ideas and motivate them to write. They also added what they won’t do with [AI-assisted text generators] in the pledge, such as I won't use [AI-assisted text generators] for homework assignments and presentations. They used it in a future city project.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

It is important, perhaps now more than ever, to recognize the inherent strengths of each parent while also tending to their personal development, motivation and self-actualization. The program is offered at our school in East Palo Alto, California, where most of the community is low-income. The root cause may be more complicated (e.g.,

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Teach Hub

MAY 22, 2025

Or for history, let them build a timeline in the form of a comic strip. This really works with students who think in pictures or have a harder time connecting with more traditional assignments. When theres a real purpose behind the work, student motivation goes up. The goal isnt for students to land on one right answer.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Despite ground-shifting conditions ranging from motivated activism to waves of funding, shifting our schools can seem like an exercise in futility. Its learners receive all of their core academic content—English, history, social studies, and math—through competency-based online courses. The takeaway?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I want my students to be able to have differentiated assignments and to be able to find the one that is most interesting. What motivates you, both as a teacher and an entrepreneur? That really motivates me to continue. Failure also motivates me. Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell. Otus Cofounder Chris Hull.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Not only did it increase reading motivation, but scores on reading comprehension tests improved as well. Our lawyer guided us to complete a patent assignment process that secured ownership rights while acknowledging the contributions of all inventors. The History of Edtech via Patent Applications. Who Owns Digital Badges?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

And the related place-based learning sees students explore the history and culture of their own region. Taking Action All the different flairs of “-based” learning may have a long history in education. Inquiry-based learning, for example, teaches students how to ask better questions, and then go about figuring out the answers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

A moment of inspiration came while observing my students as they played different types of games—they were fueled by various motivations. I thought, if I could identify what motivated them during play, I could tap into that during learning. Characters could level-up to earn special in-class privileges.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

Without modifying my lessons or project expectations, I sent my DHH kids through a sound recording assignment and a music video project. I find the faster the feedback, the more motivated the student. I don't just encourage it; I make it it's own separate assignment. The solution: feeling and visualizing sound.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 5, 2022

If you attend edtech conferences, you know how motivating, energizing, and forward-thinking they are. Borrowing from a Google Slide template shared by a fellow history teacher, I set up a slide deck that reviewed the content we covered with resources. Students use bullet points instead of paragraphs when summarizing the response.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

The basic premise is that by providing a more complex and accurate picture of students, academic needs can be better met, colleges can make more informed admissions decisions, and intrinsic motivation will follow. Imagine you teach World History,” Looney explains. Full size image here. Getting teacher buy-in.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

The transformed space can provide the viewer experiences such as holding a beating heart in your hand or history coming to life on your desk. Collaborate Effectively Assigning one educator or administrator to implement AR and VR is typical when getting started; however, the collaboration between multiple parties can help avoid many pitfalls.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

My first year of teaching, I was assigned five sections of English 10. Inspired by my aforementioned graduate professor, I thought it would be fun to get to know my students by kicking off my own classes with a reader biography assignment. I would not be starting the year with a full study of Shakespeare’s “Othello.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Regardless of the course (science, history, or literature), every student has to prepare a research document at some point or the other. Choose a Topic The first step in writing a research paper is to pick an assignment topic that interests you. This will help to keep you motivated throughout the drafting phase.

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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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Online platforms and learning management systems are other examples of technologies that improve student learning and enable teachers to share resources, assignments, and feedback seamlessly. Learning management systems (LMS), such as Google Classroom or Moodle, facilitate streamlined communication, assignment distribution, and feedback.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

Students in Ochoa’s seventh- and eighth-grade history classes beta tested Cisco’s free STEM program, which officially launched this week at ISTE’s 2018 Conference & Expo in Chicago. These are boys who weren’t normally very motivated, and it sometimes led to behavioral issues,” Ochoa said. This project was perfect for them.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Without the physical presence of instructors and classmates, students may struggle to stay motivated and may miss out on valuable opportunities for collaboration and real-time feedback. For example, students might role-play historical figures or characters from literature, gaining a deeper understanding of their motivations and experiences.

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