eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Key points: Inspiring young women in STEM programs requires cultivating a culture of community Black students need more STEM career exposure Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades For more news on STEM education, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Before I get into how edtech enhances social studies lessons, let’s ask a foundational question: What the heck is Social Studies ? According to Brookings , roughly nine percent of educators consider themselves social studies teachers. Here are five ways edtech can kick up your social studies program: Simulations and games.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

schools are well-positioned to help families get online with low-cost, high-speed internet options through the federal government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), according to a new study from Discovery Education and Comcast.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

More than 75 percent of students, according to a Chinese study from 2016 , spend their evenings or Saturdays with tutors, studying core subjects, or English, or learning sports, coding, or music, either in person or online, one-to-one or in groups. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?:

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APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

As the internet drives down the value of a teacher’s knowledge, their ability to personalize learning with resources from around the world will increase. But now that the internet is replacing paper as the go-to media we need to balance our students skill set from finding answers to asking the most interesting questions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Chinese 1 through AP® Chinese Language and Culture courses will be added to the more than 250 online courses currently offered by VHS Learning. Professor Feng also brings to the project extensive experience as an original team member in the design of The College Board’s AP® Chinese Language and Culture exam. About VHS Learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

The 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report launched last week at an event in Montevideo, Uruguay, hosted by UNESCO, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay and Ceibal Foundation with 18 ministers of education from around the world. Is it scalable?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy. That is a genuine advantage that young people have, because I think cultural fluency is really hard to be taught or pick up later in life.” There’s a bit of an imposter syndrome.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2017

One recommendation from the STEM Starts Early report is, “Program designers should encourage studies that enable a two-way street between research and practice.” These technology tools can potentially play a significant role in bridging STEM with literacy, the arts, and social-emotional learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2019

Prior to rolling out our implementation plan, we engaged researchers from Rutgers University to conduct a study on internet access in our communities living in poverty. We found that over 90 percent of households did in fact have access to the internet, but often through a cell phone, rather than a computer or tablet.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

The 2025 CIS MS-ISAC K-12 Cybersecurity Report , released at the SXSW EDU conference, details the increasing sophistication, frequency, and impact of cyberattacks against K-12 schools. ISAC services blocked more than one billion attempts to connect to malware domains, and over 320 million attempts to connect to phishing domains.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. The successes of students in the program were the result of the work we had done around equity, developing a strong classroom culture and providing evidence of student mastery. Access to computers and Wi-Fi at home was woefully inadequate.

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MAY 23, 2020

Many students simply don't have access to a stable internet connection or the proper devices. On the flip side, some students have a stable internet connection, proper devices and dedicated “school time” set by their parents or guardians.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

These aren’t online tools or books, but mental conscripts that will get you where you want to be with more efficiency and less pain: The Secret to Learning English and Other Foreign Languages Faster Mastering a new language can be a transformative journey, opening doors to new cultures, opportunities, and personal growth.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2016

For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts University, and Georgia State University have been conducting a study to determine whether tablet computers loaded with literacy applications could improve the reading preparedness of young children living in economically disadvantaged communities. Next page: What the study reveals.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Schools understand the importance of broadband internet and are exploring ways to ensure that the new digital programs that are introduced into their schools function in a secure and seamless fashion. Access to New Education Technology and Resources We’ve seen some incredible progress from districts over the past few years in this area.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

And lower-income African American and Hispanic students have been more likely to be learning remotely during the pandemic and have less access to computers and high-speed internet. High quality experiential learning requires a cultural commitment and strategy, structure and resources.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Talk of the metaverse is everywhere, even though the new, more immersive internet isn’t exactly here yet. A lot of us who study what we call the science of learning have been very, very interested in the quick rise in technological alternatives for young children. We want it to be culturally responsive.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

You might want to watch some of the videos at home, but your family doesn’t have high-speed internet. Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine who studies how young people use technology, says it’s not necessarily because the teachers or the people making edtech tools have bad intentions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These tournaments and leagues are the evolution of decades of player and fan culture. At the start of the 2000s, the whole industry was being turned on its head by games like StarCraft and Counter-Strike, which created a new form of online game competition culture. in an old arcade. What does all this have to do with education?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL. Common Sense released its newest report, Connection and Control: Case Studies of Media Use Among Lower-Income Minority Youth and Parents.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

She started by sharing her own culture and working with another teacher to arrange a field trip to the state capitol. Zerifa Radlein-Grant When I started, we’d have Fun Fridays and I would teach them about my culture using videos. I was trying to find a school that had the internet to be able to Skype. Twitter (Of course!

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JANUARY 24, 2022

To folks in the crypto community, these developments all seem to point to a new era of the internet: Web3. Blockchain credentials are currently “a solution in search of a problem,” says Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “If

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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. Those should be available to everyone.

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JUNE 21, 2022

Christian Miraglia, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has some great ideas on teaching kids about Social Media Awareness: Over the last decade, there has been pressure in the K-12 learning environment to create classes that address everything from managing your money to various efforts to address cultural inequalities.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Early studies, such as ones from international researcher Richard Van Hooijdonk , show that virtual and augmented reality tools can increase student engagement and motivation while increasing knowledge construction. We wanted them to better empathize with them so as to ease cultural clashes and facilitate integration.

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MARCH 5, 2019

A study by Northeastern University researchers suggests that schools are safer than they were in the 1990’s. If you have money within your family to get your own device, you can access an unfiltered internet. If there are assumptions about how students ought to behave, she asks, “are those culturally responsive?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The ability to obtain study materials at any time from any location and on devices is one of the benefits of the modern era. Each student learns at their pace – flexibility encourages independent studying, surpassing previous methods. Colleges need to adopt and support this advancement. And their future is not a promise.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

She harnesses the power of many platforms, devices, and peripherals to offer her students personalized instruction, inclusivity, data-driven feedback, cross-cultural exchanges, and the support of other educators at their school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Recent studies have shown that lower income children often spend more time with technology as it has become a type of “digital babysitter” for parents who have to be out of the house for extended periods of time. Now the quality of digital participation is coming into question.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

Having the tools available is important, but changing culture and practice is much harder, says Brandon Muramatsu, associate director for special projects at MIT’s Open Learning project, noting that the training and community are often the most important. But doing that will mean a change of culture.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

That translates to over 1,000 additional student interactions,” says Joe Murray, assistant dean of undergraduate studies and university advising services. Adapting to Culture Shifts Virtual meetings haven’t attracted more students at every institution, however. They can find resources on the internet. They can email professors.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

A 2012 study surveyed teachers in the U.K. In this vein, Benjamin Riley and Michael Pershan, from the nonprofit Deans for Impact, recently published an article describing cultural cognition. They write: “Cultural cognition describes how we interpret certain facts and evidence through the lens of our existing values.

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Priceless Ponderings

APRIL 14, 2025

Priceless Ponderings The Best Homeschool Social Studies Curriculum for Busy Parents Finding the perfect homeschool social studies curriculum can feel overwhelming. If you’re a busy parent, you need a curriculum that simplifies your life while making social studies exciting for your child. Do any of these sound familiar?

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