Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

Read part 1 and part 2. 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. This is part 3. Digital video has taken the world by storm.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. AudioPen is an AI-powered tool that converts voice notes into text that’s easy to read and ready to share with students and fellow teachers.

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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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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 struggled with reading instructions and questions, which made it difficult to participate in the general education classroom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Additionally, these digital tools need to support the means of expression through written assignments, presentations, or discussions to make the learning environment as engaging as possible. Social annotation as an e-learning vehicle within UDL Social annotation tools can improve reading comprehension and student interaction.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Workshops on internet and information literacy. As leaders, librarians are prepared to guide students through reading and research processes at the same time that they offer necessary support to teachers. 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

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? We know that technologies affect how people read, write, and think. 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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The company has gathered all the complexities of internet safety and distilled them into engaging, well-tested, curriculum-aligned, and beautifully structured lesson plans (created by teachers) for grades K–8. What Sesame Street did for children’s reading in 1969, Cyber Legends will do for children’s cyber safety in 2022 and beyond.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2015

Aside from the obvious benefits of offering a wide array of reading materials, school officials say the devices have also created a fresh opportunity to teach students how to research, create and apply their knowledge via the internet and Google applications.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs. Our list of Must-Read K—12 IT Blogs includes a mixture of teachers, instructional technology specialists, IT leaders, administrators and consultants. If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Most of these homes dont have internet, so now you have another problem, because its very expensive. Through one of our internet providers, families can also get internet access for $10 per month. Thats what this is designed to do.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A top Google leader said during Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference this summer that nearly 40 percent of young people—ages 18 to 24—are turning to visual-based social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram for their internet searches. As for crossover with their assignments? “I With TikTok, it goes back to that algorithm.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. “I Studies show that the pandemic caused a drop in test scores in reading and math, with the students who were already struggling showing the largest declines.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Most of these homes don’t have internet, so now you have another problem, because it’s very expensive. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. In my opinion, the issue is beyond being equitable.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

You can read the full report, including the other five suggestions, here. 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. There is a place for both, the authors argue.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I have read and loved them all. Read more from Emily here. I was especially struck by the show’s two-part series on “ The Paradox of Pleasure ,” which analyzed the challenges of coping with the addictive lures of the internet and other tech. Read more from Jeff here. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

You can achieve this by making your assignment expectations clear, and providing guidelines in simple bullet point format so that they’re easy to understand. Even if it’s just an email to say hi, or specific feedback on an assignment. Once on the internet, always on the internet - so can you live with the information online forever?

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Learning Internet Assignments Fairness 205

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

During this time, I have tried to become more intentional about giving additional student feedback on projects and assignments the students are doing at home. Some students who may struggle to complete and submit online assignments are regulars during our virtual class meetings.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . teachers also assigned internet-based homework last year, according to the Pew Research Center. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

The internet provides resources for our students to learn a second language, and it also facilitates the teachers’ processes of evaluation. For example, students may participate in interactive reading activities where they record their own voice to practice fluency.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

I’m assuming from, you know, reading your work and and others that it’s not like cyber security has gotten any less worrisome, right? 1 is to sort of know what you have facing the Internet. Doug Levin Right, I think it’s what may you live in interesting times, right? Is is the curse as it goes. Kevin Hogan Yeah.

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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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Assignments Learning Schools Quizzes 191

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Once students are participating at some level, they’re doing things like reading a chapter book and stopping it [at a] cliffhanger, and you have to come back the next day to hear the next piece,” says Lovely. Teachers of older students are assigning group work and creating breakout chat rooms in Zoom. Another piece of the puzzle?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This was the epitome of knowledge and learning before the internet became widely available. At one point, I completely removed reading responses because they weren’t working for me. Students turn in their reading responses before class, then get into small groups in class to discuss the reading.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you read one other than for grading? Now think about the frequency with which you read online articles, blogs, social media posts or listen to podcasts that inspire you or provide new information and perspectives. Some criteria I use to develop assignments include: student agency. engagement and passion.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

First, she schedules two class meetings for social interaction, where her 22 second graders read aloud and play games. Next, she plans small-group reading and math sessions. Attention spans are shorter for younger students than their older peers, who also need less parental involvement to complete assignments. Others are vague.

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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

APRIL 2, 2020

With Zoom, for example, students might experience harmful or obscene visuals during “ Zoombombing ”—internet trolling during video conferencing. font size, spacing, picture dictionary, translation) and read aloud. Internet providers, like Comcast and Spectrum, started offering free Internet access to low-income families.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Expect them to read closely, but work quickly, and make decisions based on their knowledge of reliable websites.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recall one student who would wait until the night of the assignment deadline to dive into their schoolwork. All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. Don’t wait for an assignment notification to get started.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Students learn specific skills assigned by the teacher (to a group or individual) by playing age-appropriate, intuitive games based on appealing characters and fun interactions. Note: There is an option where parents can assign work to their children but this requires a fee-based account. More on Game-based Learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

embed] EdSurge: Should schools be prioritizing home internet access for remote learning right now? In our case, we’re asking teachers to give students two assignments, spread out over the week, so that they can get a check in and get a sense that students are following through. You’ll find a partial, condensed transcript below.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

For the discussion posts Brightspace tracked not only how many comments they wrote, but also how many they read—I really liked that. We are moving into this place and there's no Internet. She had a strong Internet connection and then she just took off. She literally wrote me, “By the way, I don't know if I'll be on next week.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough.

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