eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Switching seamlessly between languages like many bilingual learners do AI-powered translation tools are improving, but they dont match the way multilingual individuals naturally switch between languages in real life. Bilingual students often engage in code-switching, blending languages based on context, audience, and emotion.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

To the contrary, this innovative learning style helps students hone critical-thinking skills across every discipline. In my classroom, I teach students computational thinking through free materials from Ignite My Future in School , a partnership between Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education. Collecting data.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here’s a non-comprehensive overview: Text generation : From drafting lesson plans to creating formative assessments, Gen AI can produce a wide range of written content and aid educators in curriculum development. This hands-on approach fosters critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

For the month of April, digital curriculum resource ABC-CLIO is providing complimentary access to its 15 online databases to celebrate School Library Month. By offering open access to all of our digital resources, we’re carrying on a proud tradition that continues to transform education through strong library programs in our schools.”.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

More than half of today’s students will hold jobs that don’t yet exist today, which is why it is critically important for students to develop 21st-century skills such as creativity and problem solving. Roughly 32 percent of maker activities are tied directly to the curriculum. What do maker spaces look like?

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

classrooms will now have access to CodeMonkey’s coding curriculum, including software programming and critical thinking. Software programming and critical thinking are the new building blocks for our children to compete within a 21st century global workplace. classrooms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Student success is a critically important issue for school districts–and not simply because districts want students to perform well. Improving student learning and student success is necessary for students to compete in a rapidly changing world that requires critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

members, can implement our well-structured and inclusive curriculum with the knowledge that the program meets and exceeds the requirements to become an integral component of a school’s STEM implementation.”. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot. consortium. “We

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

Programmers continue to be in high demand, and coding improves much-needed skills like creativity, persistence, problem solving, and critical thinking. Perhaps you can’t figure out how to fit it into your already crowded curriculum, or maybe you’re intimidated to try. eSchool News is here to help. Start from day 1.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

One of the persistent challenges in second language acquisition (SLA), especially within the communicative approach, is how to incorporate writing in a way that feels meaningful and beneficial to students. Both teachers and students tend to resist prioritizing writing activities into language lessons. 2010; Kern, 1992).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

” Leveraging the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), Tynker Copilot empowers young innovators aged 6-12. Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in text-based programming languages like Python and JavaScript. With this launch, coding education takes a significant leap forward.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. A teacher recently asked me whether students always need to attend every station in a rotation. The short answer is “no.”

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

We are a diverse urban learning community, where our families speak 23 different languages. I love the way the CERCA Framework (which stands for Claim, Evidence, Reasoning, Counterargument, Audience) builds students’ critical thinking and argumentative writing skills. It gives you goosebumps, doesn’t it?

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Some students may feel disengaged if the curriculum does not connect to their interests or learning styles. Because FDR has a large ELL population, the platforms language translation feature is particularly helpful. Teachers, on the other hand, face challenges in addressing diverse student needs within a single classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Millions of students take English lessons online now, and I’d like to think at least some ESL companies are doing good work, though the extent of their impact still remains to be seen. Content and curriculum quality vary considerably. But not all ESL programs are created equal. I learned quickly what the recruiter meant.

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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. STEM storytelling combines language arts with STEM, enhancing students’ understanding of scientific impact through a historical or personal lens.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2025

As AI disrupts the educational landscape, this partnership aims to shape the national conversation about the evolving role of critical thinking in writing practice. Founded in 2012 by a high school English teacher, NoRedInk is led by an experienced team of educators, technologists, and language evangelists.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

However, despite this belief, 81 percent of parents either don’t believe or are not sure that AI is even part of their children’s curriculum. Princeton High School students in New Jersey integrated generative AI into a plush robot designed to teach and preserve endangered Indigenous languages.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Simply put, writing is our critical thinking made visible. Through the process of writing, writers put nascent thoughts into comprehensible language for others to read. Because it is a critical thinking process, writing isn’t merely an act of jotting down what you have in your head.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

MCSD narrowed the gap between its test scores and the state averages on 12 tests this year: third-grade English language arts, science, and social studies. fifth-grade English language arts, math, science, and social studies. fourth-grade science and social studies. seventh-grade science. eighth-grade social studies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Here’s the list of Kindergarten websites I use most often during the school year. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

Yi Hwang Academy of Language Excellence, Kindergarten Henry M., The comprehensive and curriculum-aligned resource provides instant access to thousands of digital and physical activities for math practice, fluency and critical thinking, all in one platform. Notre Dame Elementary School, Grade 1 William D.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Instead, ChatGPT-4 acts as an enhancer for my innate critical thinking and creative prowess. Embracing the insights of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force, I have leveraged LLMs (large language models)like ChatGPT-4 as tools and allies in refining my writing.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Key points: All students are math language learners, regardless of their home language Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs How to support multilingual learners in STEM For more news on language learners, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Math isnt just about numbers. Its about language, too.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning. Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms can help students analyze primary sources, extract key information, and generate summaries or interpretations.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

Students were so engaged in learning how geese flying over mountains ride the thermal updrafts like roller coasters that they didn’t quite realize how much time they had spent practicing important skills such as math, close reading, and critical thinking.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Reading Park meets Foundational Reading Standards for grades K-2 as outlined in national and state English Language Arts (ELA) standards. Pedagogical Research-Based Curriculum: Lessons are designed to maximize each student’s ability to practice and master foundational literacy skills. Reading scores have been flat in the U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2023

“CCRA+ is a valuable tool that can help educators identify students’ strengths and opportunities for improvement in critical thinking, problem solving, and written communication. With this relationship, educators will have a more comprehensive view of their students’ needs and the support required to succeed.”

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

The Academy Program, on the other hand, serves students who benefit from a highly customized curriculum with a strong emphasis on life skills, vocational training, and independent living. This holistic approach ensures that students not only master the curriculum but also develop essential life skills for the future.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Games are more than rote drills, intended to train critical thinking, problem-solving, and promote logic in decisions. Games can be played offline, in multiple languages (with more planned before the end of the year). Games advance as the child progresses. This also includes Leaderboard ranking.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” And therefore my curriculum is political. They need strong critical-thinking skills, and just teaching to the textbook is not enough.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Practicing reading and getting comfortable with language helps you become a better writer, helps you become a better critical thinker, and allows you to express yourself better when you’re speaking,” he explained. Wolf has done extensive research on brain development and literacy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

AI algorithms use massive datasets and natural language processing to produce content that replicates student writing styles as teaching tools. Improved Writing Quality For many students, especially those learning English as a second language, AI technologies are essential for language and writing improvement.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In celebration of the release of a new starter set, Wizards will provide Dungeons & Dragons-themed classroom materials for teachers across the country to add to their curriculum. In addition to the numerous social, emotional, and creative benefits Dungeons & Dragons provides, kids get hands-on practice with math, reading, and writing.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By moving through these four phases—See, Think, Me, We—participants engage in a comprehensive thinking process that takes them from initial observation to personal connection and social relevance. Teachers often use this routine to deepen students’ engagement with material and to foster complex, critical thinking skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

Our rigorous curriculum is taught by Pennsylvania-certified teachers trained to provide virtual instruction in real time and is focused on providing all students the educational resources and out-of-classroom experiences they need to become successful, lifelong learners. Gizmos also offers math programs–Reflex and Frax.

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