eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With this suite of updates, you can target reading recognition or support for individual students and provide curriculum-aligned reading motivation to your classes. Of interest is Attention! BenQ plans to eliminate digital integration hurdles in the classroom with its teacher-focused smart boards.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In fact, one state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. The data brief, False Assurances: Many states’ licensure tests don’t signal whether elementary teachers understand reading instruction , provides the most up-to-date analysis on the quality of elementary reading teacher licensure exams being used by each state.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Teachers can’t slow down the lesson plans for the entire class to accommodate a few struggling students, and can’t provide individualized attention to all the students who need it to stay on track. Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The answer is not necessarily a new one, but it is a concept that needs more attention from educators in our modern-day classrooms: Design thinking. The basic steps of design thinking are empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test (Interaction Design Foundation, 2016). What is design thinking?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. Students who performed the worst on the NAEP test were more likely to be frequently absent from school, Carr noted. That doesnt bode well for their futures or for our collective futures.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 9, 2025

Getting students motivated after spring break can feel a bit like trying to run in flip-flops. Maybe its reading two chapters of a book, completing all homework on time, or improving their test score by a few points. Building this momentum helps students feel capable and proud, which fuels motivation better than any reward ever could.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“This survey shows how out-of-touch politically motivated book banning and censorship groups are,” said John Chrastka, EveryLibrary Institute Executive Director. One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. Far too many states are using these weak tests.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Analytical thinking Creative thinking Resilience, flexibility, and agility Motivation and self-awareness Curiosity and lifelong learning Technological literacy To prepare students for this type of workforce, educators must design impactful learning opportunities that require the use of these AI skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2025

But how AI is being used and what tools scale is also a mirror to what makes us tick: what we as a society prioritize, and where we spend our dollars, time, and attention. In other words, the AI tools that flourish this year will reveal the true motivations of both individuals and systems.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But TikTok, and social media more broadly, continues to capture curiosity and attention, and it’s not all just dance videos–Indiana science teacher @ChemteacherPhil commands an audience of more than 3 million followers on the app. Is there a lesson in that? There’s an entire school of thought on this. Try, fail, learn, repeat.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2017

Studies have revealed that students find gaming and gamification of work positively stimulating and motivating. Dopamine is associated with the limbic region of the brain which controls the pleasure response and it is this response that stimulates repeating the action that motivated the response in the first place.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 5, 2017

It’s standardized testing season again in American schools. And that means it’s also time for many schools to bribe and punish their children into submission because those tests are ones they don’t want to take. Over the past couple of decades, the political stakes attached to standardized testing have accelerated greatly.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

That tagline serves as something of a futuristic mission statement for the Boston-based company, which focuses on bringing brain-training video games to market and is seeking to produce the first FDA-approved game treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. While ADHD limits attention, it doesn’t diminish it entirely.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Over the course of my career, I’ve had some years where my students’ standardized test scores were on the rise , and other years where they stagnated. While educators are engaged in long-winded conversations about how these tests don’t accurately reflect student success, kids are losing out every day.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

As a mother, I can say that’s also true for parenting, which is problematic for educators who are also parents because the demands for attention and care are increased. Whatever those goals may be, self-compassion encourages us to examine our motivations for those goals and adjust them if necessary.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. Now, he was rewarding himself by attentively drawing cartoon cityscapes all over his paper. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When students believe in their abilities to dig in and figure out challenging vocabulary and concepts: They can take on standardized tests with more confidence. I pay attention when I see an unfamiliar word (and actually stop to figure out exactly what it means.) I notice how I have to slow down to digest the words.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

homework, lecture notes, practice tests). Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention. For example, if you have a math test coming up, you might dedicate more time to reviewing formulas and practicing problems in the days leading up to the exam.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

In supplemental education, it is common practice to conduct comprehensive testing to assess new students upon intake and design a personalized plan using that information. . Schools across the nation already do annual assessments through standardized testing. What motivates one child to stay quietly seated may discourage a classmate.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

The judges assessed each finalist’s innovation, paying special attention to whether an idea was likely to stick and, therefore, make a lasting impact in the field. Another motivating factor for SayKid is to build technology that brings families closer. “We Watch the 2020 Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge Event Recap.

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Technology Education Testing Motivation 213

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

A large nationwide study has found that teaching ninth graders to maintain a “growth mindset” toward learning—stressing that their minds are like muscles that can get stronger with use—can result in higher test scores. Dweck said other changes were made during the testing process as well. “We

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Charter schools educate six percent of America’s children, but get an outsized amount of attention , pro and con. The Success Academy network in New York City is among the most controversial, and attention-getting, charters. That’s by test scores, of course, in English and math. In Washington, D.C.,

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

Yet with small class sizes, Kiski ensures that every student receives personalized attention. This experience provides personalized feedback, encouragement, and motivation to keep pushing forward. By eleventh grade, students are immersed in workshops, standardized test preparation, and strategic college application planning.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2019

BETTER SPATIAL ATTENTION: One study found that playing action video games improves the ability to locate a target stimulus among distractions — a test that predicts driving ability. 4 Ways Esports Improves K–12 Skills. And some games, such as Pokémon GO, require participants to move around in the real world. by Calvin Hennick.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres a disconnect between what we know is really critical and then what were paying attention to, says Hau, executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and author of a new book about the essential role of relationships in healthy human development. The following interview has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The teacher takes the students outside to test their ideas. They become more motivated to learn and more capable of thinking critically about the challenges they will face in the future. 3D Learning with Twig Science A Motivation to Engage Phenomena-based learning and 3D science standards naturally complement each other.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

But for a child to thrive in those three areas, she needs to know how to self-regulate her emotions, behavior and attention. There are also general competencies all children must acquire to become resilient, self-efficacious and self-motivated, Gibson said. In other words: personalize it for them.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Based on my experience, this builds engagement overall because students know that they need to pay attention as there are quizzes at regular intervals. . Additionally, you can provide supplemental resources, such as links to online study guides or practice tests. Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

To empower students to not only be able to read but also to want to read, a holistic approach — offering intensive care for the most at-risk students and specialized attention for those with moderate literacy needs — is key. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. The state started to permit the “Classical Learning Test” as a substitute for the SAT. It’s confusing.

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