Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. Yes, my eyes technically scanned the words, but I wasn’t thinking about what I was reading.

Activities 546

Activities Reading Learning Discussions 546

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2024

There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks , one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates. Searching for Savings The business of textbooks elicits strong opinions from nearly everyone in higher education.

Textbooks 191

Textbooks Accessibility Assignments Participation 191

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. Some students don’t understand how important assignments are, Beckett says.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 200

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

Professors assign textbooks (or other materials) that they view as required to succeed in their courses, but some students say they go in with a wait-and-see attitude: They delay a week or two into the semester, and then obtain only the materials that seem truly necessary to them. “I I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says.

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Textbooks Assignments Students Reading 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The professor felt like an accomplice.

Textbooks 163

Textbooks Writing Accessibility Peer Review 163

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most people assume the move to online courses means students are logging on to the learning management system to take reading quizzes tied to their assigned textbook chapters and posting in the discussion board in line with weekly modules as their schedules allow.

eLearning 285

eLearning Quizzes Textbooks Fairness 285

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. Yes, my eyes technically scanned the words, but I wasn’t thinking about what I was reading.

Activities 195

Activities Reading Learning Discussions 195

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Earlier this year Ferreira stepped aside as CEO, replaced by Brian Kibby , a veteran of major textbook companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill.

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Textbooks Internet Assignments Questions 142

eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

They can create interactive, multi-media assignments in each content area providing engagement and focus where needed.” Actively Learn ELA equips students to become better readers, writers, and thinkers by embedding rigorous instruction into short stories, current events, articles, close reading excerpts and even full-length novels.

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Active Learning Activities Social Studies Textbooks 246

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. It’s intimidating.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 324

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Kids Discover Online offers access to over 1,000 K-8 science and social studies resources on any device and at three different reading levels. All content is searchable by subject and unit and offered at three different reading levels designed to excite even the most reluctant readers.

Reading 156

Reading Social Studies Textbooks Science 156

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

This can be as simple as letting students choose from a variety of formats for lessons and assignments so that each can learn new content and show what they know in optimal ways. Students could decide whether they’d like to read that day’s material from the textbook, or view a video summarizing the content.

Universal Design 281

Universal Design Essay Textbooks Learning 281

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

Assignments 115

Assignments Teaching Ethics Textbooks 115

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Baraniuk recalls thinking.

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Most importantly, this resource is customizable, allowing me to use it as a supplement to lesson plans, as a homework assignment, and as a studying tool. Students were struck by their newfound ability to retain knowledge through listening to music rather than reading from a traditional textbook.

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Textbooks Assignments Knowledge Testing 277

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.” But those materials were not ideal.

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Textbooks Instructors Syllabus History 120

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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Teachers Coaching Textbooks Participation 256

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

Assignments 103

Assignments Teaching Ethics Textbooks 103

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In most flipped classrooms, educators provide materials for students to review before class such as readings from textbooks, worksheets or videos.

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Lecturing Textbooks Instructors Attention 193

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2018

Textbook publishers typically deploy sales reps to campuses to convince professors to adopt their titles. But who makes the pitch for free or low-cost alternatives to textbooks known as OER, or open educational resources? One for a free linear algebra online textbook reads: “There is a lot of great basic material here.

Textbooks 167

Textbooks Assignments Questions Reading 167

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

For example, suppose small groups of students are discussing a text they’ve read, a video they watched, or a podcast they listened to. formal writing assignment, performance task, project). Conversely, it gives students who excel at verbally articulating their thoughts the chance to surface their learning that way.

Feedback 431

Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

He and his students happily use open educational resources for textbooks. He also knows that the right OER provides professors opportunities to teach the latest research and even make areas like math and science more inclusive by moving away from traditional texts and homework assignments that often lack diverse perspectives.

STEM 178

STEM Textbooks Instructors Science 178

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2017

These students are even more enveloped in technology than the Millennials who came before them, and many educators now worry about how best to teach Generation Z basics—such as how to read—while competing for attention with digital devices. The student choice method works wonderfully well with reading.

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Achievement Attention Textbooks Students 197

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. Others require licenses.

Assignments 191

Assignments Learning Schools Quizzes 191

eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The print student edition features a magazine-style layout with visual primary sources and infographics to promote reading and visual literacy. With a built-in notebook, read-aloud audio, and lesson summaries written at multiple reading levels, it supports students of all levels and lets them complete assignments online, offline, anytime.

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History Social Studies Critical Thinking Distance Learning 190

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What has repeatedly snagged her ability to study it, however, has been when homework assignments include charts and graphs that her screen-reading software can’t process. “If The equivalent for me is going to a class and not being able to study the textbook. Other facets are harder, and require a cultural shift of sorts.

STEM 154

STEM Disabilities Textbooks Culture 154

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So when she developed Read Ahead , a tool to transform any digital text into a guided reading activity in seconds, her thoughts went to patenting it. “I From filing a provisional application to securing approval, it took Russell five years to get Read Ahead patented. Edsurge: When did you first consider patenting Read Ahead?

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Assignments Reading Textbooks History 169

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. Too often, educators feel rushed to get through the myriad of lessons in the textbook or curriculum guide.

Feedback 218

Feedback Schools Internet Testing 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. These are filtered by topic, grade, length, reading level, keyword, or standards (i.e.,

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Active Learning Activities Social Studies Learning 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

You walk into class without a care in the world, and casually look up on whiteboard to read the agenda. The average high school textbook costs $70 and weighs about a million pounds. Filled to the brim with textbooks, binders, notebooks, and a computer, it’s no wonder so many teens suffer from early back pain. I’m serious.

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Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In our search to find textbook-type resources that had products that were enhanced by our student's access to the Internet, we were searching for an improved assessment and assignment experience for mathematics. I pretty much just dragged and dropped which problems I wanted to assign. Describe how you used the product.

Math 134

Math Teachers Textbooks Assignments 134

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Students didn’t like the traditional textbook-and-worksheet-centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada’s Ottawa Catholic School Board’s (OCSB) high schools. Grade 9 Geography was in trouble. OCSB teacher Audra Abromaitis; full size image here.

Student Engagement 161

Student Engagement English Assignments Feedback 161

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

It was through the online textbook, but it was like a quiz, essentially. For the discussion posts Brightspace tracked not only how many comments they wrote, but also how many they read—I really liked that. One of the better parts of the class was having an assessment component every week.

Teachers 168

Teachers Motivation Internet Textbooks 168

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Since then, a number of studies across many institution types have found that OER—freely available educational materials that can be downloaded, edited and shared— save money and show that students learn just as much using OER as with commercial textbooks. While the results of this study are good news, they don’t tell all.

Textbooks 120

Textbooks Assignments Students Study 120

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Together, these integrations help administrators and teachers easily create, share, and assign engaging lessons, interactive resources, and validate assessments through their existing tools, or share content with a URL link or through integrations with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, social media platforms, Remind, and Edmodo.

History 216

History Learning Textbooks Culture 216

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

Educational Video Content Creators Educational video content creators are empowering educators to bring lessons to life in ways textbooks simply can’t. EBook Libraries EBook libraries are changing how students access reading materials, making heavy backpacks filled with textbooks a thing of the past.

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High School High School Gamification Quizzes 167