eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this years MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. The survey polled 1,500 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. How can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

How technology helps in teaching and learning Technology revolutionizes K-12 teaching and learning, offering myriad benefits. From accessing educational resources on the internet to running software applications and engaging in online collaboration, personal computers play a central role in modern classrooms.

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Technology Teaching Gamification Textbooks 268

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. 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. This is part 3.

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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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Assignments Teaching Ethics Textbooks 114

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. To better equip students for the modern information environment, the report recommends that faculty teach algorithm literacy in their classrooms. That’s how many college students feel, anyway.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Understanding how to use the internet has become a cornerstone issue for students. Now, there is a vast landscape of resources available on the internet. How is being a citizen of the internet the same/different than my home town? Describe how to travel safely on the internet. Where is this ‘digital town’?

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Teaching Internet Discussions Assignments 179

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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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 330

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Through the Midwest Teachers Institute , I offer four college-credit classes that teach how to blend technology with traditional lesson plans. If students use the internet, they must be familiar with the rights and responsibilities required to be good digital citizens. internet safety. Teach Writing with Tech.

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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. Today, using tech for teaching and learning–both in class and for homework–is a lot more common than it was. However, I knew that things were a lot different once students left my classroom.

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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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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. EdSurge talked with professors in a variety of disciplines to dig into what they’re trying as they teach summer classes or prepare for the fall.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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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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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. How can AI be used in teaching?

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 307

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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Learning Coaching Attention Internet 350

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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Grades Teaching Internet Discussions 180

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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Assignments Teaching Ethics Textbooks 97

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, educators across the country and around the world have been tasked with shifting to emergency remote teaching—a move from in-person to remote classes made necessary by pressing circumstances. With this rapid push to remote teaching, educators may be jumping into the use of digital technologies too fast.

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Teaching Disabilities Evaluation Internet 218

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University—but some of the students she’s teaching are now taking the class from California, where it’s only 8 a.m. At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome. for all of her students.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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 310

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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Collaborative Research Students Knowledge Assignments 370

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Last year, my various teaching materials were found somewhere between four bookshelves, three filing cabinets, two Google Drives, two external hard drives, and one laptop. Some students learn best while taking part in whole-class conversations, some prefer small groups, and others prefer independent self-paced assignments.

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Assignments Internet Grades Curriculum 279

Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

With the ubiquitousness of the internet, outsourcing everyday tasks—grocery shopping, assembling furniture—requires just the click of a few buttons. In the past, edtech has fostered authenticity by detecting when it’s lacking, such as by flagging text similarity when an assignment is turned in.

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Internet Plagiarism Instructors Assignments 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. This was the epitome of knowledge and learning before the internet became widely available.

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Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 209

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

It’s my first time teaching online,” she says. Facing over 200 students and parents from eight classes on the screen, I was a little bit nervous so I don’t think my teaching was very effective.” For music classes, Xiong says teachers have assigned song lyrics for individual students to sing.

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Art Teaching Internet Physical Education 197

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

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. To support them, I used Classkick’s built-in audio tools to record and embed verbal instructions and questions into assignments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2016

They can start an assignment at school and pull it up on their own computer at home. The older student will be reinforcing their knowledge while teaching new concepts to the younger student. In its second year of existence, it pairs students with a partner classroom, allowing both to connect and share via the internet.

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Teaching Art Writing Knowledge 190

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, because of the changes in education, the use of games to reinforce learning, to teach, and to engage students in their own education has become one of the most effective tools to bridge the gap between school-based and remote learning. It simply means teachers include games in their lesson plans to teach curricular concepts.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Assignments 183

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

Innovative and inspiring ideas for edtech initiatives that will transform teaching and learning still need financial support. 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.

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Internet Assignments Achievement Accessibility 276

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. He acknowledges that a lot of the writing that students do these days is informal and social, and thus today’s writing instruction must focus on teaching students how to artfully master both registers. “I Is it quality writing?

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

Understanding how to use the internet has become a cornerstone issue for students. Now, there is a varied landscape of resources available on the internet. Overview/Big Ideas Students learn how to live in the digital world of internet websites, copy-righted images, and virtual friends who may be something different.

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Grades Teaching Internet Assignments 147

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? How to craft the title so it fits the format of an assigned paper type? ChatGPT generates original texts.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Academic Integrity 304

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The game teaches kids about passwords, identity theft, scams, phishing, cyber bullying, sexting, social media issues and much more. 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.

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Mobile Devices Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Curriculum 322

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

Teaching for the 21st century looks a lot different. As the internet drives down the value of a teacher’s knowledge, their ability to personalize learning with resources from around the world will increase. Also, of increasing value is their ability to teach students to be self-disciplined about how “to learn to learn.”

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Questions Teachers Internet Knowledge 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Workshops on internet and information literacy. The goal with highlighting these different titles librarians must take on is “to conceptualize and describe the broad nature and variety of the work that teaching librarians undertake as well as the related characteristics which enable librarians to thrive within those roles.”.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Back-to-school is getting closer and closer, and as it approaches, stakeholders and ed-tech vendors are working to create research and products that identify educational needs and truly improve teaching and learning in the classroom. The need for high-speed broadband internet in every classroom in the U.S.

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