Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

His guiding belief is that “modern video games have the potential to be taught as humanely and deeply as any traditional text.” In our fourth grade professional learning committee we used “ Sydney’s World ,” a narrative roleplaying game I developed to help younger students improve their reading fluency and comprehension.

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Reading Game-Based Learning Teaching Quizzes 167

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Writing is more important than ever, but many of today’s students are lousy at it. Warner has been teaching writing at colleges for more than 20 years. And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Our students’ belief that everything they need to know is online can, without the right skillset, leave them prey to misinformation. The bold, colorful text features and differentiation of reading levels make Britannica School engaging and easy to use, and it is a trusted source of information.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stations and centers are often used during reading or ELA blocks in kindergarten through second grade classrooms. The following are a few ways to start having students use devices for a technology station during reading rotations. Students could also interact with reading curriculum websites that have digital resources including texts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It allows me to share my morning message, where each student comes up to the board to write their name, circle the letter of the day, and engage in drawing and coloring activities. Read aloud: In preschool classrooms, read-aloud sessions play a vital role in daily learning.

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Beliefs Classroom Management Reading Elementary School 243

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Rather than relying solely on AI to write their essays, students use these tools to foster critical thinking, inspire creativity, and brainstorm potential topics. It can give suggestions for how to write a college application essay for those who lack writing skills, too.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

This belief is a myth. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. When John first started in my class, his academic skills were minimal: His reading was well below grade level. His writing was riddled with so many errors that it was difficult for me to read.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The report shares findings from a survey of more than 1,000 educators across 48 states as well as from two focus groups examining educators’ beliefs about readiness for the 2021-22 academic year. Lexia has helped teachers and students to keep literacy learning progressing even through the disruptions in the 2020-21 academic year.

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Education Beliefs Students Grades 246

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. This is an exercise as much for presenters as audience, and is graded on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. Explain that some students might be debating positions opposite to their beliefs. Write an Ebook.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In my early years as a teacher, I would read teaching books desperately looking for bulleted lists and numbered paragraphs. There wasn’t a bulleted list I could recall from any of the teacher strategy books I had read. These beliefs determine the mindsets that prepare us for the critical moments of conflict that teach us the most.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2022

Each tool displays the lines for a specific character—say, Juliet—so that a user can read those words aloud—like, “O Romeo, Romeo! Part of really getting into Shakespeare’s head and understanding how the drama works has to include some understanding of the theatrical situation he’s writing for.” Wherefore art thou Romeo?”

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Teaching Art Beliefs English 195

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous beliefs to be untrue. So why are people so easy to fool when it comes to beliefs about learning? But those beliefs persist. Beliefs about science can become entangled with our self-identities, even if they didn’t start out that way.”.

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Learning Styles Beliefs Learning Evaluation 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We hardly think twice about spell-check and other auto-correct features in writing software—in fact, their absence would make some feel rather lost and empty. That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002. The centers all have laptops.

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Technology Writing Beliefs Essay 171

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Student success is more often defined by whether a learner demonstrates achievement on what my grandmother called the “3 R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic” — the core academic skills needed to illustrate mastery on standardized assessments. This is a dilemma. Is it marked by enthusiasm, love and care, and purposeful focus?

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 196

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Their studies take a look at how simple assignments that ask participants to read about how other older students have felt out-of-place at school — the first year of middle school and first year of college, to be precise — can build resistance to that sneaky inner voice that says, “I don’t belong here.”

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Middle School Middle School Schools Students 175

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Read about 10 more finalists here !) Read about the three 2023 winners here. So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. It’s time to try something new.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It’s the belief that the process of creating is what teachers should be assessing, rather than the final product. My students create their own Google site to chart projects they do, write down their weekly reflections, track their progress and even include videos and pictures to demonstrate their learning.

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Failure Testing Beliefs Middle School 217

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

At poetry readings in particular, I lean into the words that a poet shares before or after reading each poem. I pulled the word “paratext” from the field of poetry translation because, personally, I love the “paratext” that precedes or follows a poem—or even interrupts it. Paratext helps me connect with and make sense of the poem.

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Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 190

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MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. By organizing ideas visually, students can structure their thinking, make connections, and build confidence before they start writing or speaking. Fortunately, todays classrooms have more tools than ever to support that work.

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Languages Language Participation Writing 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

Across the United States, an estimated two-thirds of preschool programs are segregated — a reality that may directly contradict the widely held belief that preschool, and all high-quality early learning experiences, is a great equalizer. The starkest example was with reading. Then I go to Great Beginnings, and they read so much.

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Attention Reading Beliefs Fairness 203

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a classroom teacher, I always tried to improve my practice by reading academic and practice-based articles, attending trainings and connecting with fellow educators to share resources and troubleshoot challenges. I love learning. The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me.

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Teaching Philosophy Students Beliefs Feedback 212

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Researchers like Warschauer are studying whether and how conversational agent technology—the kind that powers smart speakers such as Alexa and Siri—can enhance the learning benefits young kids receive from hearing stories read aloud and from watching videos. In another study group, adults read books without pausing to ask guided questions.

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Intelligence Study Questions Languages 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

The designs included a necklace pendant in the shape of El Salvador and Ajima’s favorite, a sticker that read “100% Guanaco” (Guanaco is a nickname for Salvadorans). At the heart of the Hispanic heritage project was Ajima’s insistent belief in the power and necessity of sharing, of communicating what you’ve done with others.

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Culture Beliefs History Students 134

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

VARK suggests that students can best accelerate their knowledge acquisition via one of four core learning styles: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R) or kinesthetic (K). It’s a wildly popular concept that has led to prevailing beliefs that students perform better if we cater to their natural learning styles.

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Technology Learning Styles Instructors Learning 204

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Underlying Hoffman’s speech was an unwavering belief that networks are mutually beneficial. It’s not, we’ll teach you some math; we’ll teach you about reading and writing; we’ll teach you some analysis, and then it’s off to the races.”

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Beliefs Math Knowledge Writing 142

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2022

They can’t read Shakespeare —a teacher told me when they found out I was starting a unit on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with my ninth-grade students— do you even know them? Can’t read. Can’t write. This conversation has rattled around in my head for months now, causing this gnawing feeling in my stomach.

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Teachers Culture Education Beliefs 167

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it. Read, read, read.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I read an interesting article in EdSurge last week about how current educational technologies do little to move learners beyond rote recall of knowledge and it caught me off guard. It was not the belief that technology has yet to be harnessed to its highest potential that surprised me.

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Teachers Feedback Knowledge Beliefs 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Guthrie explains, the road to lifelong learning starts with proficient reading. Unfortunately, says Guthrie, students’ reading motivation is often "shockingly low." Guthrie spoke with EdSurge, sharing how classroom teachers can use intrinsic motivation, text choice, and real-life connections to encourage students to want to read.

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Motivation Reading Beliefs Grades 128

eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2016

All too often, schools teach knowledge-based skills like the “3 Rs” (writing, reading and arithmetic), but fail to adequately focus on the “4 Cs” (communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity).

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Critical Thinking Beliefs Communication Skills 124

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I do this through thoughtful daily/weekly writing prompts and really reading their responses. I sometimes leave a post-it inside their notebooks or respond in the space below their writing in their journal. The students were given the writing prompt, “Who is your rock?” I send them an email. This is a delicate operation.

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Learning Coaching Writing High School 151

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2016

Pass out a printed page from a book students are reading in class. Why do some students type faster than they write and others slower? Did most students by a certain grade level type faster than they write? Here’s how that would work: Give students a writing prompt. Which is faster? Discuss data.

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Beliefs Writing Essay Testing 102

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it. Read, read, read.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google To get a broader perspective, I also posed this question to professionals from different industries, working in film, writing, teaching, museums and technology companies big and small. Every time I feel like I need a creativity push, I read that book. What is “creative writing”?

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Skills Art Critical Thinking Writing 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

My goal is to do my task and get 50 percent or more,” it reads. Core to the charter network’s vision is a belief that students can be empowered to make choices that direct their learning, with guidance from teachers and access to real-time data. This is really about a whole belief, a way of educating, thinking and learning.

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Beliefs Schools Assignments Grades 138

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Or have a more general discussion about what beliefs Dickens was trying to challenge with this story. Writing exercise: Ask the students to write a summary of the movie or a particular scene. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. It can help you with coming up with questions.

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Language Languages Teaching Multiple Choice Questions 104

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The introduction of mass market writing tools powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed higher education. Literature review Writing assignments have traditionally served as a means to support the development of critical thinking skills in higher education. Of course, AI writing tools are neither NS nor NNS.

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