eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

And a majority of students–70 percent–are concerned about having enough money to purchase the technology needed for college. There is also a concerning new data point: Nearly three quarters of students are worried they won’t be able to pay for the technology they need for college.”

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

English teachers using StudySync have a wealth of online resources they can use to keep students learning remotely. Teachers using StudySync can use the Access Prior Knowledge Activities in the First Read Lessons to engage students in asynchronous online discussions using Google Classroom or a learning management system, like Schoology.

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Collaborative Research Students Knowledge Assignments 370

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

While summer breaks may offer a pause for students and staff, they often mark a hacker activity surge. When students own the device in question, the situation gets a little trickier. With personal devices, finding the right balance between protecting a students privacy and securing data is crucial.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for many years, but the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 has generated many discussions of how this technology can impact education – both how students learn and how educators teach. Students may know how to use some technology, but not all. Most of the time, this is not true.

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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. David Miyashiro, superintendent of the Cajon Valley School District (CA), called the false positives of 100 percent home internet access. Related content: Major lessons our district learned during COVID-19.

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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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Accessibility Internet Students Assignments 266

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Proposed legislation would ensure students have access to digital learning resources, internet outside of school. New legislation introduced in Congress would support “innovative strategies and methods to increase out-of-school access to digital learning resources” in an effort to boost both student and educator engagement.

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Internet Assignments Achievement Study 279

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2020

The school year ended for some students with quiet sign-offs in dining rooms and living rooms across districts. 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.

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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. However, students seemed less knowledgeable about the use of data collection and algorithms in education. It was commissioned by the John S.

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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. As critical as it is that children learn about cyber safety early on, teachers often lack the resources to help their students.

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Mobile Devices Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Students 317

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT a little more than six months ago, students have quickly figured out how to get the free AI chatbot to do their homework for them. A large number of K-12 teachers and college professors have decided to simply ban the use of ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots when completing assignments.

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Assignments Instructors Writing History 148

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

And that has led to new teaching practices, mainly flipped classrooms where professors require students to watch video lectures for homework and use class time for more active discussions or hands-on activities. For example, telepresence robots could give remote students more options for expression in class when they can’t be there in person.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

As a result, 28 percent of the students said workers will need to acquire new skills to thrive in the new AI workplace, and more than two thirds are looking to their schools to help position them for future success. The survey polled 825 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

million students on the Paper platform just in time for the 2022-2023 school year. Over the last several months, Paper worked with students and other stakeholder focus groups to understand how to improve its ESS and find better methods to engage with today’s students and their preferred ways to interact and learn.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Across the nation, school districts are investing in one-to-one computing programs and supplying digital devices for their students to use as learning tools. While these tools can be very empowering, giving each child a device isn’t enough to close the digital opportunity gap that exists between students of varying economic means.

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Mobile Devices Internet Elementary School Elementary School 276

eSchool News

MAY 24, 2022

It shouldn’t rely on home internet access, a community hotspot or a ride to the library. students are entering a time where equity in education has the potential to be closer than ever before. Technology brings the opportunity for students to access the same plethora of information, regardless of location or status. Rather, U.S.

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Laboratory Internet Education Textbooks 269

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2019

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. Because the majority of my students lacked internet access at home, I never assigned homework that required technology.

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Assignments Internet Middle School Middle School 279

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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Internet Assignments Accessibility Schools 261

eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

In partnership with eSchool News, Illuminate Education is spotlighting teachers in a series recognizing educators, the way they have moved instruction online during COVID-19, and how they have prioritized the needs of their students. How have you been able to adopt to a remote learning model for your students? Ann Grey Newcomb.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Ultimately, students are human beings and they’re going to make bad decisions under stress and pressure,” Bertram Gallant said.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As educators, we’re always looking for ways to engage students with practical, real-world applications of business concepts. 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).

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 113

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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Internet Schools Assignments Communication 276

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

In the year 2020, amid a global pandemic, millions of American students are struggling to get online to do their schoolwork and communicate with others. There was already plenty of pressure on these students to perform well in school, and now there is extra anxiety because of COVID-19. This is not right.

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Accessibility Internet Learning Students 215

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AI’s rise in popularity has brought with it questions about ethics, skills students will need for workplace success, and how to balance negatives with positives when it comes to teaching with this new generative tool. Just as the internet revolutionized learning, AI will be the next game-changer.

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 298

eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2020

education, and its effects can follow students from kindergarten through college. As if that’s not bad enough, the COVID-19 crisis, which forced students across the globe to learn at home while schools closed physical operations, made inequities even more apparent. Students in schools all over the U.S. schools.

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Internet Assignments Study Accessibility 257

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Not only does it make educators revise their approach to teaching academic writing, but some still see it as a threat to students’ academic integrity. How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? Below are five ways students can (correctly!) ChatGPT generates original texts.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Academic Integrity 300

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. Digital equity increasingly requires that all students have broadband access when they leave the school campus, especially at home. Crossroads.

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Internet Accessibility Assignments Achievement 277

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Key points: Edtech tools can be a valuable resource to build media literacy skills Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators How to help students build critical success skills For more news on media literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Media literacy has emerged as a critical skillset in today’s digital landscape.

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Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 306

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. The value of this inversion is that students can pace their progress through a video (pausing, rewinding, rewatching). Adding to the time students already spend staring at a screen. The Benefits of Using Video.

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Multiple Choice Questions Lecturing Blended Learning Evaluation 420

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The pandemic has created enormous challenges for the 56 million K-12 students in the United States, but the heaviest burden has fallen on underserved minorities and learners whose family members have never attended college. And it illustrates how race and class have played a role in how students have weathered this strange year.

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High School High School Internet Students 200

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. A new survey shows that college students’ attitudes correlate with their personal experiences with online learning. What’s Killing Student Confidence?

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Students Assignments Internet Study 189

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

But while generative AI tools like ChatGPT have dominated conversations for the past year, there are many classroom tools that have quietly used AI to deliver personalized and targeted learning to students. AI Writing Review enables students to submit their drafts for lightning-fast feedback.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 331

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. A majority of teachers report engaging students in active learning with classroom technology.

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Activities Middle School Middle School Critical Thinking 309

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. With an average of 28 students in each class, I almost always need to weave accommodations into my lessons.

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Assignments Internet Grades Curriculum 279

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

My experience has shown that special education students, in particular, benefit immensely from the right digital tools. Classkick has been a vital tool in my teaching strategy, offering an engaging and flexible approach that meets the diverse needs of my students in a virtual classroom.

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Special Education Skills Education Feedback 286

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2023, the internet is likely near the top of those concerns. Now that many schools are back in the classroom, students may no longer be remotely logging onto computers for class instruction. However, they may still need to remotely access school websites or learning modules for homework, group assignments, or to check their grades.

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Internet Schools Accessibility Assignments 284