eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Students from various backgrounds can access quality education through e-learning platforms, videos, and digital textbooks. These resources capture students’ attention and cater to various learning styles, making complex topics easier to understand. Personalized Learning : Technology enables tailored educational experiences.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This multi-sensory approach helps capture students’ attention and makes complex concepts more accessible. These technologies capture students’ attention and help them stay focused, leading to improved motivation and participation in the learning process. Technology also facilitates personalized learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Carefully choose digital curriculum … When students do not have printed textbooks at home, digital curriculum can fill the gap. Especially during times of quarantine or isolation, educators should give attention to the whole person—body, spirit, mind, and social relationships. Others require licenses. Focus on healthy living.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

Gamification Dry subject matter coupled with decreasing attention spans means traditional teaching approaches are becoming less effective. Teaching students the intricacies of anatomy via AR is already heightening their spatial reasoning and making it easier to internalize advanced concepts textbooks and videos can’t bring to life as vividly.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

With digital platforms, students can access a wealth of information, including e-books, online articles, videos, and interactive tutorials, expanding their knowledge beyond traditional textbooks. Access to diverse resources online expands learning beyond textbooks. Engagement and interactivity are also boosted through technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online). Bruce Robertson Technology makes it easy to send out reminders, administer quizzes and offer immediate feedback. His choice: modular learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” To embed quizzes in these resources efficiently, the company uses natural language processing algorithms. Dueling for Attention Work is not the primary reason people use Duolingo. We have to build our own curriculum,” says Col.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Interactive tools, such as educational apps and multimedia presentations, captivate students’ attention, making lessons more dynamic and enjoyable. This access expands their learning beyond traditional textbooks. Interactive activities, such as quizzes using platforms like Kahoot!

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. Experiential textbooks? And they do. So what are these blockbuster MOOCs, then?

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

And so they’ve designed systems, strategies and tools to better hold the attention of their students, many of whom are working adults. These institutions may pay attention not only to ordinary life circumstances that can derail students but also to emergencies like the pandemic. You want to avoid that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2019

Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Resources include not only videos but study tools, guides, quizzes, and more. Sample Lesson Plans.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

She thinks it’s “kind of seen as old-fashioned,” and most college and university campuses would go with composition and writing textbooks such as “The Little Seagull Handbook,” “The Everyday Writer” or “The Writer’s Reference.” But Hall does think that Strunk and White has been replaced.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials. I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

These could include interactive content (such as the ability to manipulate objects and modules on the screen), along with embedded quizzes, simulations, virtual labs and other multimedia features. The company has already captured the attention of one of the world’s most famous funders: Bill Gates.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

But more importantly, every single one of them is listening attentively for their next instructions—right in the middle of math class. As Meyers explains, traditional math textbooks and the way we teach math is the functional equivalent of turning on “Two and a Half Men” and calling it a day. We’re being overrun.by

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Koedinger, director of CMU’s LearnLab, suggested thinking of the give-away more like a free plant, noting that implementing it will take care and attention, though not to the extent of bringing a baby animal home. In that scenario, professors simply assign the book and courseware and require students to buy them.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

Many struggle to actively pay attention. When they are encouraged to think abstractly, I think it becomes easier for them to summarize the textbook content in a way that’s powerful and different from what our quizzes and our simple discussion board questions allow us to do. Students are always on their phones.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

Many struggle to actively pay attention. When they are encouraged to think abstractly, I think it becomes easier for them to summarize the textbook content in a way that’s powerful and different from what our quizzes and our simple discussion board questions allow us to do. Students are always on their phones.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication. Have students type a school project (such as a book report or essay) while paying attention to keyboarding skills. Cyber-bullying. How to search. Plagiarism.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 23, 2025

Use Active Learning, Not Passive Consumption Watching lectures or reading textbooks might feel productive, but its passive. Even 510 minutes of movement or fresh air can refresh attention and enhance focus. This could take the form of self-quizzing, writing a summary from memory, or explaining the concept aloud to someone else.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I Such checking may be more like the way textbook publishers operate than traditional professors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2022

Aiming to improve Kenyan students’ base math skills, it had distributed over 3 million textbooks, appraised nearly 30,000 teachers, and its national student information system had registered 96 percent of all students nationwide. By 2019, the World Bank’s PRIEDE project had exceeded several of its goals.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

Surveys also find that far fewer students read for pleasure than in the past, and cell phones and social media could be sapping childrens attention spans. But surveys indicate the most common way students use technology at school is taking online tests and quizzes. Technology is ubiquitous. Some educators are seizing the opportunity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer even created a comic alter ego called the Plaid Avenger , who has narrated textbooks and podcasts but is now largely retired—though Boyer still sports his famous plaid jackets and drives a plaid Scion. Explore the World Regions course file , with links to notes, quizzes, and study guides. Every week there is a book reading quiz.

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