eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

Stanford History Education Group, 2016. The fact that 70 percent of middle school students in a recent study could not distinguish between fake news and authentic news on the web shows that we, as educators, have to do a better job of teaching media literacy in the digital age.

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MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Approaches described in a study from the Stanford History Education Group were referenced several times. Critically ask does the nature of the claim appear to be a fact or opinion? Do they provide resources that are researchable? Can you find the primary research from their assertion?”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Introduce edtech tools to enhance learning Integrating edtech tools is an effective way to capture (and keep) students’ attention and enhance learning. Even incorporating history, such as the evolution of technology or major scientific breakthroughs, can contextualize STEM subjects in ways that feel relatable and meaningful.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2016

The approach is unconventional, to be sure, but it recently gained more attention when Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk created a learning alternative for his children embracing unschooling, self-directed learning tenets such as exploration, choice, natural life experiences, and visits to real world learning centers (museums, zoos). .

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2017

Geometry formulas might be boring to most students, but show how it lead Chelsea Sullenberg, “Sully,” to be able to save everyone on his flight and to safely land on the Hudson River and suddenly you have your students’ attention. Instead of doing another worksheet in social studies, invite a guest speaker.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2015

For all the hand-wringing, media attention, and proposed legislation over data and student privacy the academic research on the topic may just now be starting to catch up. Staples, a sociologist, professor, and director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. That’s according to William G.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Teacher prep programs are failing to pay attention to the content knowledge teacher candidates need, and an astonishingly high number of elementary teacher candidates fail professional licensing tests teach year, according to a new report. Read more: 5 big ideas for innovation in 2019.

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APRIL 26, 2025

And in September 2024, history took a bold turn as Kiski welcomed young women into its ranks and opened a new chapter in its storied legacy. With a rich history, an eye on the future, and a commitment to academic and athletic achievement, Kiski continues to redefine what it means to be a boarding school in the 21st century.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Other behavioral studies that look at the behavior of children with trauma histories show “enhanced attention to and difficulty in disengaging from emotional stimuli ( Tottenham et al., Research suggests that early trauma exposure fundamentally alters the way children process and prioritize emotional information.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2025

Leadership, community, targeted funding are all areas which need our attention. There are balanced literacy and whole-language instructional resources that dominate the market.While there is legislation, it may be too new, too vague, or lacking accountability to really measure the impact. So where do we go from here?

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Challenges of phenomena-based teaching As a science teacher, I help students make connections between concepts and their lives every day, but coming up with phenomena for students to study can be overwhelming.

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MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. They seek to ensure that students learn the basic facts of Holocaust history—no small thing, given that a 2018 survey documented that 66% of American millennials cannot explain what Auschwitz was and 41% believe that 2 million Jews or fewer were murdered.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

00:00:23 Speaker 2 So in the state of Missouri, we have a history of of using growth data to inform our accountability decisions. So all those kids get get paid very close attention to and all teachers pay attention to every kid. 00:00:45 Speaker 2 And that’s really where it’s at. 00:06:04 Speaker 2 State level when?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In a world driven by race, class, caste and difference, we don’t do enough in schools to candidly confront those realities with an attentive awareness. Our local histories, our neighborhood green spaces and our students’ extended families offer all kinds of academic connections that can enrich our studies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Early studies, such as ones from international researcher Richard Van Hooijdonk , show that virtual and augmented reality tools can increase student engagement and motivation while increasing knowledge construction. Engagement is defined here as students’ attention, retention and a deeper understanding of a concept.

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MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. What’s an example? It doesn't mean not to discipline.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

One study finds this to be particularly true for fictional stories, which allow readers to imagine themselves as other people, in other worlds, with different ideas and challenges. For a large part of human history, that has been print. It also changes the way we read. Wolf goes a step further: “We don’t just skim.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Numerous studies also point to the benefit of audiobooks as a remedy for student disengagement with reading. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. It had been more than a year and a half since she had studied Mesopotamia, yet she was able to pull it out of memory without a second thought. But I’ve never done well in history,” they say.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Guided lectures with Pear Deck or Apple’s Classroom iPad app can keep students’ attention on the topic at hand by ensuring that their screens will display exactly what the teacher needs them to see. It’s a strategy that I used as a high school history teacher years ago. Innovative teaching is not about changing everything.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If you were clever, paid attention, had good memorization skills and could afford it, you could even progress to college and possibly to graduate school, where your agreed-upon knowledge would qualify you for a profession. Or, you may spend 12 years in college, complete 300 credit hours of study, and know a lot about a lot of things.

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JULY 31, 2018

Shifting your attention all over the place is going to be, most likely, drawing your attention away from the learning goals themselves,” says Uncapher, who is also the director of the Education Program at UCSF’s Neuroscape, which researches brain function and technology. If we charged, we could have bought researchers’ time years ago.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

They wanted to integrate two branches of theater scholarship: history and performance. Clarity, landing sentences, really paying attention to the structure of a sentence, becomes important,” Nelson says. We were trying to encourage conversation and dialogue on the history and our current state of affairs,” Nelson says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I The same study also captured responses from 1,000 K-8 students, of whom 89 percent said play made them “more excited” to go to school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

IXL serves 30 percent of students in Florida and has a long track record of helping learners in the state succeed: A study of public schools in the state found that those using IXL Math outperformed schools without IXL by as much as 15 percentile points in math. ” How Florida schools excel with IXL Learning.

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these students exactly where they are. I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these students exactly where they are. According to a 2016-17 national study of more than 1.2 “Stay out of jail!” Or who stop showing up at school altogether.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Additionally, it gained attention for its ability to provide high-quality education in regions with inadequate supplies of teachers, especially in higher-grade STEM education. Throughout history, humans have used various media such as stones, wood, paper and chalkboards to explain and learn abstract concepts and complex knowledge.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite some improvements notably in fourth-grade math the national results were pockmarked by widening gaps in student performance and declines in reading scores, including the largest share of eighth graders who did not meet basic reading proficiency in the assessments history.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

Robotics is a modern area of knowledge … this is an area that’s already popular in after school study. If you do a project on the mining industry in Canada, for example, you will learn the capital of Canada naturally, rather than studying a list of capitals. Time can be made available by carefully curating the what. Why is that?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Pay close attention to the voice that sounds the least like your own. It focuses primarily on the dominant narrative of European and Western studies at the expense of other narratives that represent the identities of the student population. The African American history is embarrassingly summed up in one whole chapter.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

In a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, statistical models based on academic studies estimated the potential influence of school closures on learning. Furthermore, the study projected that this lack of learning could diminish students’ earning potential over their lifetimes and even reduce the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

She learned to pay attention to others and practiced kindness, empathy and gratitude. This past year, when we studied the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas and the genocide that followed , I considered the experience of a student in my class, who is Taíno, the first peoples of the Caribbean who encountered Columbus.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. This can be difficult because we have over 45 different tribal nations represented in my district, each with their own unique history and context. Frequently, it’s something larger.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

With that in mind, I recently did some sleuthing of my own and tracked down a half dozen history and geography teachers around my age who remember time spent hunched over TVs and early PCs, discovering for the first time that the world was much bigger and more exciting than our backyards. Physical geography is important,” Keller says.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). He also shares how his zesty attitude toward social studies makes lessons on the census—and many other topics—pop for his students. He got me excited about U.S.

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