Teacher Mood

JUNE 11, 2025

It helps you: Stay organized without relying on Wi-Fi Track changes over time Spot missing assignments at a glance Handle mid-year program changes with less stress Let’s take a closer look at some real-life teacher situations where a paper gradebook saves the day. Situation 1: “Is This Assignment Missing?” You’re standing at your desk.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

But with the advent of technology, the internet, and cell phones, it seemed like reading for pleasure (not to mention the requisite attention span) had gone the way of buggy whips, writing quills, and powdered wigs. I knew I had to do something and, personally, I blamed it all on the distractions of devices and the internet.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Middle and High School Hispanic Heritage Month Activities Once students reach middle and high school, they’re ready for more complex topics and assignments. A clickable calendar assigns one historical figure to each day of Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 3, 2025

This is often short-lived when the educator realizes how much planning will be devoted to not only incorporating the devices into the curriculum effectively, but also topics come up such as behavior management, care of the units, rules for student use, internet safety, and more!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Often it is a challenge to provide a balanced, digital curriculum to all four schools in a consistent manner especially when some students do not have reliable Internet access at home. With StudySync, we handle all of our grading online, a place where the teacher grades assignments and where feedback is immediately available to the student.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Not only has the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots created concern about assigning writing, but myriad challenges exist when we send writing home with students. #1 As a result, writing assignments often fail to meet the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness required for motivation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Do all students have access to the internet? The good news is school and state leaders can leverage CK12’s free and easy-to-understand data to better navigate the market when negotiating new internet contracts — giving them the information they need to obtain better rates for their budgets and better connectivity for their classrooms.”

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As the 2024-2025 school year begins, students return to classes, digital assignments and cloud-based educational technology tools. And all of these workflows and learning opportunities rely on the internet. The internet is a tool that does everything.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

Before COVID-19, home internet access for all students was a goal—one that some districts even thought they had achieved. First, the pandemic exposed what Dr. David Miyashiro, superintendent of the Cajon Valley School District (CA), called the false positives of 100 percent home internet access.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Proposed legislation would ensure students have access to digital learning resources, internet outside of school. Today, too many students are unable to complete their school assignments because they do not have internet access at home. households with school-age children do not have high-speed internet. ” .”

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2020

With the global spread of COVID-19, educators and students abruptly shifted to online and at-home learning, scrambling to ensure devices and internet connections were in place. Student mental health and educator burn-out received more attention, too, as students struggled to balance anxiety and worry with school assignments.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. For instance, on a recent assignment, some of the homework that came in didn’t sound like typical student work he was used to.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

On the production side, other pedagogies cropped up, as teachers can now assign video assignments that turn students into the creators, letting them find their voices and learn technical skills that could apply to jobs. Video also has greater “bandwidth” for communication, than text discussion forums, adding images to audio.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school. At school, students have access to high-speed internet service. As a growing number of assignments require internet access, this phenomenon has become known as the “homework gap.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Efforts to bring high-speed internet to all classrooms in the country have been bolstered by advocacy groups and by President Obama’s ConnectEd initiative , but one critical area lags behind: the so-called “homework gap” caused by students’ lack of home internet access.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2022

It shouldn’t rely on home internet access, a community hotspot or a ride to the library. Districts that had yet to assign devices to each student rushed to make that happen when remote learning began. In some districts, that might mean building internet service contracts into every device. Rather, U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Although some gains in high school students’ technological device and internet access have occurred since ACT first investigated the digital divide in 2018, device and internet access of students with lower family incomes is lagging that of students with higher family incomes,” said Jeff Schiel, Ph.D,

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2019

Because the majority of my students lacked internet access at home, I never assigned homework that required technology. For me, students’ access to tech at school wasn’t the issue. However, I knew that things were a lot different once students left my classroom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

If the Ancient Mariner were sailing on the internet’s open seas, he might conclude there’s information everywhere, but nary a drop to drink. That’s how many college students feel, anyway.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2020

struggled to find existing or reliable internet connections, many didn’t have access to appropriate devices to complete online assignments, others waited for weeks until schools managed to organize device-lending programs, while still others had to share devices with siblings and, sometimes, parents who also had to work from home.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Generation Z, commonly defined as people born between 1996 and 2010, are known as digital natives because they have grown up using the Internet and other technologies (“What is Gen Z”, 2024). This assignment has four parts: Part I : An overview of the five leadership styles, where students understand, define, and analyze key characteristics.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As internet connectivity becomes a necessity for schools and students, there is a new call for the government to make school bus wi-fi eligible for federal E-rate funding. School bus wi-fi also is viewed as a way to close the persistent homework gap that occurs when students have internet access during school, but lack it at home.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

It also requires that they “use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.”. #2 Teachers using StudySync can take the Building Background activities in the First Read lessons and create collaborative research assignments for students learning remotely.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just as the internet revolutionized learning, AI will be the next game-changer. Just like the internet, AI isn’t going anywhere–so let’s teach our kids to work with AI, not against it. AI is here to stay, and will be an important workforce skill–and many educators want to teach students to work with it, not against it.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

billion Project 10Million (P10M) initiative has delivered reliable and affordable internet service to more than 6 million young learners across the U.S., School-related tasks from digital assignments to research, video streaming, video lessons, and web calls require more data. . — Since 2020, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS)’s $10.7

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Thanks to E-rate, as well as other state and local policy efforts, the education community has largely achieved the original 1997 goal of connecting every classroom to the internet. Only a handful of school systems offer off-campus internet connectivity programs such as free or subsidized home access for low-income students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2023, the internet is likely near the top of those concerns. However, they may still need to remotely access school websites or learning modules for homework, group assignments, or to check their grades. Speaking of isolation, security features such as remote browser isolation airgaps user devices from the internet.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I knew if I combined the fragmented collection of videos, slides, documents, and assignments I’ve collected and prepared over the years, I’d be able to create more authentic and engaging lessons for my students. I searched the internet and found a few online tools that fit my challenge.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

Most teachers assign homework that requires the internet, but many students don’t necessarily have access to a device, or the right device, with a large enough screen or enough data to complete homework. Focus on closing the Homework Gap.

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Internet Assignments Accessibility Achievement 275

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Passive learning, on the other hand, means students passively receive information–for example, students might use a Chromebook to take a test or submit assignments in a learning management system. Active learning with technology involves the use of edtech tools and digital resources to discover, analyze, and apply learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2020

These changes are even more profound when you work in an under-resourced community where many students rely on school lunches for their meals, and where many families do not have reliable internet access at home. We’ve gathered resources and developed assignments that will be available both online and in hard copy.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The data is pulled from principals who implemented at 1:1 program where students are assigned a device, and principals with those programs are more likely than other principals to report that technology use is effective in core academic subjects.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Students can study, learn, communicate with teachers and collaborate on class assignments to and from school and extra-curricular excursions. Advanced technology has made internet connectivity in the classroom fundamental to teaching and learning,” said Miami Dade County Superintendent of Schools Alberto M.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? Brainstorm and generate essay topics While teachers often assign particular essay topics to students, sometimes a prompt says they are free to write on anything they want. How to craft the title so it fits the format of an assigned paper type?

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