eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

I need to create programs for students that will help educate them in their own culture and their own way. Ethnicity, diversity–all students need to learn how each culture is different. Most of these homes dont have internet, so now you have another problem, because its very expensive. This is not an educational problem.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

One can see school reform, and actual schools, continue to reflect society’s dominant cultural tropes regarding modernity. Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this week, LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit that promotes personalized learning, culturally relevant teaching and innovation, convened hundreds of Chicago teachers for its sixth annual summit. The schoolhouse door was barred for them because they didn’t have internet access. That shouldn’t be.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

My colleague and I teach the same group of 11th grade students in our Title I high school in Oakland; she teaches history, and I teach them science. Before the notorious Zoom Year, phones were a minor issue; students were generally receptive to being redirected and there was an overall culture of understanding of how to act in a classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Hybrid design and a holistic approach to distance learning, which includes non-internet and internet-based elements, are among the most critical aspects of the program. The workshop led to the Open OutDoors for Kids Hybrid Learning program, an extension of NPF’s Open OutDoors for Kids Field Trip program.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And AI-powered education platforms can help to improve student engagement with global culture and history. Autonomous cars, smart communities, the Internet of Things and immersive education are a few of the many high-potential industries highlighted by Verizon that 5G will transform.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

Carnegie Mellon has a long history of commercializing its digital-learning tools, though. Slow-Changing Culture To understand why Carnegie Mellon is making a stand for learning engineering, it’s important to know who Herbert Simon was. But doing that will mean a change of culture.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of VERE360. We wanted them to better empathize with them so as to ease cultural clashes and facilitate integration. What was the driving force for you and your team to adopt VR?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

After consulting with teachers in focus groups, HMH says it refashioned Carmen as a “global citizen” in response to requests for more material around social-emotional learning—which is to say the ambitious goal of teaching Americans geography has been somewhat scaled back in favor of lessons on community, world culture and responsibility.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” About 40 percent majored in history, political science, economics, or sociology with the rest in varied other degrees.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States. As the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

To get you started, I’ve provided you with information about what you’ll need to get started, and a few ideas on how to bring green screen technology into STEM, language arts, history, performance, and physical education spaces. Incorporate famous tourist destinations and cultural practices for additional social studies coverage!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. However, we cannot ignore the fact that the internet can be a scary place sometimes, especially for women and girls of color.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This project focuses on research and is more involved than #51 History Trifold. Besides Publisher, students learn to research on the internet and copy-paste pictures from the internet. More history lesson plans: Martin Luther King Day Lesson Plans. #49: 52: Indigenous Cultures Magazine in Publisher. Lesson Plan.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

To better assist them, Savvas has created a parent user guide with how-to videos to help families get their students set up on Realize and to take full advantage of their digital curriculum, online and offline in cases of limited Internet access. The guide is available in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Haitian Creole.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As far back as history reaches, they played a vital role in helping students. As long as you have access to a screen and internet, you can open millions of books and the whole world’s information. We wouldn’t be where we are without them. And online libraries are the answer to how to do it.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Have you seen examples of that working, and if so, what are some of the best practices to kind of establish the culture that all Ed tech leaders know is important in person? How do you extrapolate that to the to the to the Internet? Take the US history course you develop it. How are those things applied in a remote setup?

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. Place-based education may seem especially well-suited to a school like STAR, where the student body is uniquely tied to the land and local culture.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Playing these games competitively, known as esports, is on the verge of becoming not only a force in the business and entertainment world, but a factor in the classroom as schools start esports leagues and curriculum springs up around gaming culture. It is virtually free to watch—all you need is an internet connection.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I realized the potential of using the Internet every day—that there could be fewer limitations on what we could do. In my classroom, I try to build a culture of honesty, respect, and persistence. Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell. In my second year, we had an entire unit where we did everything on. Wikispaces.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Ruth’s commitment to student success is evident in the impressive graduation rate of 96 percent–the highest in the school’s history. His dedication to excellence and steady support have created a culture of achievement and growth at Clover High School.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Kiddom works on any device, on any web browser and on a wide range of internet speeds. Kendall Hunt has a 75-year history of providing innovative educational solutions. The company strives to give every learner a high-quality education, regardless of gender, race, background, income, or learning level. About Kiddom.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

For example, students learn more about abstraction, creating computational artifacts, and the global impact of the internet, as outlined in the course description. So far, 1500 teachers have been trained on creating a Computer Science Principles syllabus for the fall of 2016.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Era of K12 online education In a traditional classroom, culture is everywhere. But what happens to that rich cultural backdrop when school moves online? The Cultural Ecosystem of Traditional Schools Physical schools have always served dual purposes. Lessons are compressed.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

Her argument is that our internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others, even when devices are temporarily removed. The audience has more agency, more choice than they have ever had in the history of presentations. And because of that, you never have this kind of idea of a captive audience.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

We taught sixth-grade students ancient history through an archaeology simulation we developed on black-and-white Macintosh computers. Whether or not this is true (it’s not), the underlying reality is that for much of human history, education meant mastering a finite and unchanging set of knowledge and skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Du Bois, the need to prove that Black people are capable of the heights of cultural excellence was a large part of the reason for the focus on education. Board, part of the reason that actually eroded the system was a cultural rejection of Black excellence in education by at least part of the establishment. And it's not.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2018

In most cases, learning a new skill, tool, et cetera, was not as accessible as it is today now that the internet has narrowed the boundaries for accessing information and democratized learning—to a certain extent. How do you hope the girls you are educating will impact history?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

So rather than have TAs based at the campus in Manhattan, Kansas, Wesch flew them to various continents and tasked them with shooting videos for the course, essentially filming themselves doing the challenges required for the course and exposing students to a range of cultures in the process. embassy to get him out.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Many teachers defaulted to using the smartboards for internet-based activities when they had extra time in class, which encouraged poor planning on their part. I was not only teaching a language, but I was teaching a culture as well. It was powerful to be able to share stories about American history and culture with them.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

China boasts the longest continuous history of standardized testing, dating back to the imperial examinations starting in its second dynasty, in 206 BC. That history is not lost on investors. The masochistic obsession with studying has deep roots. Limited Partner, Global Reach. Wada also admires the speed at which the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But Nicholas Lemann, a professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of “ The Big Test ,” a book published in 1999 about the history of the SAT, disputed that claim, saying the number of students whose acceptance to a college hinges on their test scores each year is “infinitesimal.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2017

They can cover news, current events, history, or pretty much anything the creator would like. If you’re creating your own podcast, all you need is a digital device, a microphone, an Internet connection, and a topic you’re passionate about. They are funny, entertaining, educational, often short, and rarely boring.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This holiday season, we’ve been thinking back to simpler times—long before Cybermonday was a thing or the Internet was in widespread use. Several barriers stand in the way of change, including incompatible data languages and systems, organizational culture, and lack of interest alignment between education system stakeholders.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Paucek: We acquired a company out of South Africa called GetSmarter that we thought had remarkable overlap with 2U from both a cultural, a mission, and ultimately serve a product-fit perspective. Like an ad on the internet? This could be the single most successful ad in the history of education. What's going on?

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