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106K free teacher-created digital textbooks hit the web

eSchool News

The move to digital textbooks and resources is spreading as more companies partner with open education efforts. More than 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks are now available online through the CK-12 Foundation’s free STEM content and tools platform.

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Are History Textbooks Worth Using Anymore? Maybe Not, Some Teachers Say

Edsurge

Among contemporary education critics, the textbook is a classic and perennial foil—perhaps because its very construction is essentially a compromise between experts and politicians, groups with sometimes competing agendas. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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Student-Designed Review Games with Quizizz

Catlin Tucker

When teachers ask students to generate review questions for a Quizizz game, it requires that they review the content you’ve covered to identify important information, promotes critical thinking, and encourages conversation and collaboration. chapter in the textbook, unit of study, collection of vocabulary words).

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7 reasons to ditch recipe-style science labs

eSchool News

This “cookbook recipe” teaching style not only stifles creativity, but it can also hinder critical thinking skill development. Plus, it can leave students feeling disconnected from the scientific process, because they’re really just following instructions rather than actively exploring and discovering.

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Elmwood School: Where Girls Rise with Confidence, Curiosity and Global Vision

k12 Digest

What makes this continuum so effective is how it blends critical thinking with character education. Critical thinking isnt something we teach once, says Ms. Theres something for everyoneacademic clubs like Debate, DECA, HOSA, and Model UN challenge critical thinking and sharpen presentation skills.

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Cengage sees digital outpace textbook sales for first time

eSchool News

New milestone marks first time that more digital units are sold than print textbooks. For its fiscal year 2016, Cengage Learning reported that digital unit sales outpaced print textbook sales for the first time. For the 12 months ending March 31, 2016, Cengage Learning activated 3.5

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10 ways administrators can collaborate with librarians–even remotely

eSchool News

Even now, as students are learning at home and with fall openings uncertain, school librarians play an important role in helping students develop important critical thinking and digital citizenship skills–skills they’ll need more than ever in an increasingly online world with unvetted sources of information shared far and wide.

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