eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Since more than 90 percent of teens have access to smartphones and mobile devices, ASA’s suite of digital experiences provides an equitable way to ensure all youth can explore career possibilities that match their interests — as early as middle school – and test and try in high school.

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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. Adobe Express: Adobe Express allows students to record video responses to prompts, making it a good choice for educators looking to assess verbal communication, critical thinking, and creativity.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In fact, there are a number of simple methods teachers can use to spark student engagement while fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking. This approach encourages critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration, as students are often working in groups and learning from each other.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It’s hard to wrap our heads around the immense knowledge that future generations will possess. Generation Alpha will likely be the most technically innovative generation in history, but what will they do with that knowledge? How can we harness their skills to create world-changing technologies?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” We eagerly await this year’s entries!”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

Creating a foundation to build upon Engaging in academic discussions and navigating through academic content is essential for fostering a critical thinking mentality among students. al (2019), Integrative teaching benefits middle-level learners as it potentially increases student engagement, motivation, and achievement.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2016

What does it mean to truly apply classroom knowledge? Walking into one of our four STEM classrooms at Huntingdon Area Middle School, you won’t see students working quietly on worksheets. They’ll be huddled up in small groups, collaborating, brainstorming, critically thinking about how to solve the world’s problems.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Different schools teach coding and robotics in different ways, depending on the availability of funding, knowledgeable teachers or classroom volunteers, and time. Coding has been a required part of the middle school and elementary school curriculum since 2014. Related Content: eSchool News Robotics Guide.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I currently serve as a digital integration specialist for South Carolinas Anderson School District Five.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By exploring related categories, subcategories, or topics, students can develop a broader understanding of the larger information landscape and make connections between topics and ideas, which boosts their critical thinking skills and can help them refine their thesis.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

This new program gives all district students the opportunity to develop a foundation of computer science knowledge and learn new approaches to problem solving, creativity and critical thinking in a world that is increasingly influenced by technology. An Exciting, New Computer Science Program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. 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.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Middle school often gets a bad rap. Middle schoolers are frequently described as defiant, rebellious or melodramatic—and these characteristics often challenge educators. But what if we understood the neurological reasons behind the bizarre middle school behavior we often see? Wells Middle School.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, district leaders and teachers sought a digital resource aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, supportive of hands-on learning, and accessible to the district’s English Language Learners. Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

STEM isnt just the latest teaching topic: Its an innovative, cross-curricular way to strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Check out STEM activities for middle school that are sure to catch teenagers attention and inspire them to learn more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While mastering technical skills is essential, students must also develop soft skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking to thrive beyond the classroom. by demonstrating practical applications of knowledge. In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Meanwhile, DragonBox focuses on fostering critical thinking skills through a series of entertaining logic games rooted in mathematics. Not only do multimedia projects promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills, but they also foster teamwork and communication abilities essential for success beyond the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. These include Habits of Mind , Depth of Knowledge , and Mindfulness. For more details on these, click the links.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students. The study also uncovers that middle school and high school students overwhelmingly recognize the value of computer science knowledge in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The digital version of “working with your hands” leads students to create content, often to show their knowledge, rather than just being consumers of content provided by expensive development houses using high-cost software. It is clear that students are not leaving high school with these essential skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, schools are recognizing the importance of equipping every student with a personal device to facilitate digital learning. EdSurge: What was the device rollout planning process like for Newburg Middle School? When you explain the why to people, they are all in.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. –Peter Evans, CEO, Xtract One Technologies This school year we will see a continued focus on nurturing 21st century skills in the classroom. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. Thus, preparing the next generation of STEM-literate citizens has never been more critical.

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Class Tech Tips

JANUARY 23, 2025

If youre not familiar with Eriks work, he is a Depth of Knowledge (DOK) virtuoso. He regularly stretches my thinking about how to use and think about DOK in schools (and many schools are using it incorrectly). That NAESP podcast episode is now available. Erik is extremely practitioner-oriented and practical.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

High school students have created prototypes for innovations that redefine how we travel in the air and support sustainable living on Mars. And, as students iterate and experiment to reach solutions in makerspaces, they are demonstrating core critical thinking, logical reasoning, and creativity competencies. How does that look?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

"Digital skills are vital for students today because this is what their jobs will look like in the future," says veteran middle school teacher Kay Vanzant-Bradney of Nelson Academy in Long Beach, California. Students take that historical perspective, connect it to the present, and get creative with demonstrating their knowledge.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Digital credentialing for 21st century skills: A unique pilot program for students to earn credentials in “soft skills” such as creative problem solving and critical thinking, making their proficiency visible to colleges and employers for the first time.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. the foundations of good writing are the same in any platform—critical thinking and analysis, structure, voice, tone, and audience.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

In the latest phase of this multiyear collaboration, all district middle school students will receive access to a dynamic digital social studies textbook. To empower educators to provide middle school students these essential skills, the district selected Discovery Education’s? Discovery Education , the worldwide?edtech?leader

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Next came the communication phase, when those 20-plus competencies were condensed into a more memorable set of 4Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. When a student is a contributor,” he adds, “it turbo-charges their ability to employ the other competencies and their content knowledge.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

Their teaching philosophy revolves around fostering communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity, while elevating student choice and voice in the classroom. As the Vale Middle School CTE teacher, Mr. Knapp’s innovative approach not only inspires but also empowers our students to reach their full potential.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

In addition, the program hones the skills needed to reinforce student engagement, application, exploration and use of communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. One example is Todd Leff, a CS and technology teacher who has been teaching programming at Kingsview Middle School in Maryland.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an era consumed with teaching 21st-century soft skills, are games any good at building critical thinking or collaboration skills? On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. But what exactly do we learn from them?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. Part of the Albemarle County School District, Community Middle feels and functions differently than most other schools in America. Read part one for background.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

They seek opportunities and time to illustrate scientific and social concepts with a real world understanding and have students apply their knowledge and express their understanding through writing. In this process, administrators should ensure there is a balance of tools that address fact acquisition and practice and knowledge application.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Louisa Rosenheck, a research manager at MIT with experience in game design, says the idea is to measure “all the things we say we care about”—like curiosity, creativity and critical thinking—but that traditional assessments miss. “By For the most progressive schools, however, that won’t be necessary.

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