eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

AI translation systems process languages separately, making it difficult to replicate the fluidity of real-world multilingual communication. Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress. The environment. The pedagogy.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

It allows students to compile evidence of learning through text, images, videos, and links, fostering creativity and critical thinking. For a history project, I ask students to create a Wakelet collection on the causes of the American Revolution. I love how Padlet facilitates a collaborative environment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This process reinforces scientific inquiry and builds critical thinking skills as students see, touch, and analyze real results from their experiments. PBL also encourages collaboration and communication, as many projects are best completed in teams.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

“The pandemic has shed light on the need for student agency and inclusion, along with an emphasis on content-rich knowledge to support language learning effectively in literacy, history, social science, and science applications,” said Catherine Cahn, the CEO of Twig Education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Even if a student doesn’t select a career in STEM, the soft skills they will learn at a STEM-focused school (critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving and more) will serve them well in whatever they choose to do in life. Forge community partnerships. Here are some ways to set your STEM-focused school up for success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration tools facilitate real-time communication and teamwork, essential skills in a digital world. Students not only acquire technical skills in coding and robotics but also develop critical thinking and teamwork abilities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions. The unique aspect of the app is that it not only encourages active reading, but also the active thinking process as students consider questions after reading. Forming the Arguments.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress. The environment. The pedagogy.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy. In reflections, they communicated that being situated outside the four walls of the classroom empowered them to feel freer to express themselves.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. I am by no means a game designer.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

Educators are grappling — either by choice or decree — with how to incorporate digital devices, new learning standards, and more collaboration and critical thinking into the already-packed school day. Now, people have accepted that. We needed to rethink the “what” of learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity. It lends itself to natural conversations around critical thinking and curiosity.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The activity develops students’ problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills. One day, at the harvest festival, an eighth-grade history teacher questioned the student about some historical facts, and he answered them correctly. The AI tool is a basketball coaching tool showing the shot angle.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Social justice enterprises serve powerful roles and can connect to history and culture, community engagement and civic duty. Side businesses and crisis relief can provide growth through entrepreneurial skills, communication, budgeting, project management, outreach, business planning and more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

To create compelling video arguments, student teams interviewed experts in economic development, researched state history and geography, and even wrote poems to sing the praises of their region. When Northern Virginia was ultimately picked as a new HQ site, students were as proud as any civic leaders from their community.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention. Support for People Learning English as a Second Language AI offers people who are learning English new and improved avenues for more effective communication. 1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Approaches to handle bullying: Enforcing rules around behavior in schools, establishing communications between families and schools, and having open conversations about bullying with children have been shown to decrease bullying. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

In the life of our schools, we have seen the powerful way that our students through project-based learning have embraced deeper learning outcomes, and exhibited the habits of effective critical thinking, collaboration, and personal character. The student project on the history of slavery is a perfect example.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

In PBL, teachers create assignments rooted in the real world to help students build important skills such as problem-solving, communication and teamwork. At McKissack Middle School in Nashville, Tenn., MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out these seven steps to create a project-based learning curriculum.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. We saw that communication between parents and educators soared during and after the shutdown. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This is how adults in tech right now collaborate and work remotely together, using this kind of technology and communication all over the world. Technological advancements and fundamental shifts in how we use technology to communicate, learn and work together define our lives in the 21st century. The Create a Scrapbook lesson is great.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

It’s the teacher’s responsibility to insure students learn over-arching concepts such as how to speak to a group, how to listen effectively, how to think critically, and how to solve problems. The vehicle for teaching these ideas is history, science, and literature, but they aren’t the goal.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

But he says the conversations often fell off once he suggested adding subjects like history of science, philosophy or communication. Madsen and the institutions that reached out agreed that courses in mathematics, statistics and computing were crucial.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2023

Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts; Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources (9-10 grade Reading Standards–History–2) .

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. It encouraged teachers to design learning experiences that engaged students in meaningful mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

For example, teachers should encourage students to talk to one another about different debugging strategies, reframe frustrating moments as a time for critical thinking and build classroom culture by sharing and celebrating student work. The art and power of coding resembles the art and power of literacy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

As the education sector continues to embrace technological advancements, educators are watching the transformative impact of various technologies, particularly how they facilitate enhanced comprehension, critical thinking, and prepare students for success in the ever-evolving digital era.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

He says adding M:EE to the district’s robust technology arsenal is helping students master the oft-cited Four Cs of education—critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. And they’re learning history without even knowing it. But they also have people skills—they can collaborate, communicate.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Libraries support students’ literacy and lifelong learning, help develop their empathy, build their critical thinking skills, and empower them with skills to navigate their world. Moreover, school library faculty must partner with administrators and teachers to ensure students adopt effective critical thinking and research skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2015

emphasize in their respective accounts; Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources (9-10 grade Reading Standards–History–2). . Compare/contrast these differences and how the student wants to communicate. Desktop publishing provides a take-away that can be consumed in chunks.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Anne Brown, CEO & President, Cook Center for Human Connection More meaningful, tailored school-home communication will be imperative to supporting academic recovery and addressing chronic absenteeism. Communications with student-level data tied to outcomes feel relevant and actionable to families.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Education pedagogists categorize these sorts of ideas as higher-order thinking and Habits of Mind –traits that contribute to critical thinking, problem solving, and thriving. These are difficult to quantify on a report card, but critical to life-long success. Observe students as they work.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. We saw that communication between parents and educators soared during and after the shutdown. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Furthermore, technology facilitates communication between teachers, students, and parents through digital platforms and messaging apps, promoting a more transparent and collaborative educational experience. Learning management systems help to streamline communication and collaboration.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 28, 2024

Develops Listening Skills Active listening skills are essential for effective communication and comprehension. Ultimately, podcasts can transform students into effective communicators. Boosts Critical Thinking Skills Many podcasts talk about complex concepts and have diverse viewpoints.

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Learning Styles Learning Assignments Critical Thinking 115

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

This inspired me to seek out a game, or online environment, that could provide more expansive experiences for them—a place that would allow them to explore, on their own or with others, and where I could embed history content for them to discover. I prefer assessments that promote critical thinking and written reflection over build quality.

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